Disappearance Day of Sri Murari Gupta

What is the Disappearance Day of Sri Murari Gupta?

Each year devotees mark the day Sri Murari Gupta left this world for the Lord's eternal pastimes. In 2027 his disappearance day is Friday, 15 October, the same date as Sri Krsna Saradiya Rasayatra and Laksmi Puja. He was a respected elder among the devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Significance

Murari Gupta wrote Sri Caitanya-carita, one of the first accounts of Mahaprabhu's life. So deep was his love for the Lord that he wished to leave his body before Mahaprabhu's own disappearance, but the Lord forbade it.

He appeared in a family of ayurvedic physicians and practised medicine in Navadvipa. He never accepted charity from his friends and supported his family from his own earnings. Caitanya-caritamrta says of his practice:

As Murāri Gupta treated his patients, by his mercy both their bodily and spiritual diseases subsided.

Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 10.51

How to observe it

Read about Murari Gupta in Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, chapter 10, and offer a kind word to someone who is sick or elderly. Chant the holy names, and pray that your own service, like his, may help others turn toward Krishna.