Appearance Day of Sri Sri Radha-Ramana Devaji
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What is the appearance day of Sri Sri Radha-Ramana Devaji?
The appearance day of Sri Sri Radha-Ramana Devaji marks the morning when Lord Krishna appeared as a flute-playing Deity from a salagrama stone that Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami worshipped in Vrindavana. In 2027 the festival falls on Thursday, 20 May.
Significance
Srila Prabhupada writes that Gopala Bhatta Gosvami served Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu while the Lord spent four months in his family's home at Sri Rangam. Later, on the instruction of Srila Rupa and Sanatana Gosvami, Gopala Bhatta installed Radha-Ramana, one of the seven principal Deities of Vrindavana.
Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, the forty-seventh branch, was one of the great and exalted branches of the tree. He always engaged in discourses about love of Godhead in the company of Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī.
Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 10.105
According to tradition, Gopala Bhatta had gathered twelve salagrama stones from the Kali-Gandaki river in Nepal. One day he remembered how Lord Nrsimha had appeared from the pillar, and he prayed to serve the Lord in a form with arms, legs and a smiling face. The next morning, the day after Nrsimha Caturdasi, he found Krishna's three-fold bending form among the stones.
How to observe it
Devotees hear how the Deity appeared and remember that Radha-Ramana is worshipped with a place set for Srimati Radharani beside Him. On this day in Vrindavana He is bathed with a great quantity of milk. The same day also marks, among other festivals, the appearance of Srinivasa Acarya, a disciple of Gopala Bhatta.
Questions
When is Radha-Ramana appearance day in 2027?
The appearance day of Sri Sri Radha-Ramana Devaji falls on Thursday, 20 May 2027, the day after Nrsimha Caturdasi in the Vaishnava calendar for Kurukshetra.
Who found the Radha-Ramana Deity?
Srila Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, one of the six Gosvamis of Vrindavana, found the Deity. Tradition says Radha-Ramana manifested one morning from the Damodara stone, one of his twelve salagrama stones, after he had prayed to serve the Lord in a form with arms and legs.
Why is there no Radharani with the Radha-Ramana Deity?
There is no separate figure of Radharani on the altar. Instead, devotees say, a place is set for Srimati Radhika beside the Deity, and the priests worship Radha and Ramana together.
Who was Gopala Bhatta Gosvami?
Gopala Bhatta Gosvami was one of the six Gosvamis and a close companion of Rupa and Sanatana. Srila Prabhupada writes that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu stayed four months in his family's home, and that Gopala Bhatta later installed the Radha-Ramana Deity.
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Key facts
- Date
- Thursday, 20 May 2027
- Also on this day
- Appearance Day of Sri Madhavendra Puri · Appearance Day of Sri Srinivasa Acarya · Disappearance Day of Sri Paramesvari Dasa Thakura · Krsna Phula Dola and Salila Vihara
- Deity worshipped
- Sri Radha-Ramana, Krishna in His flute-playing form
- Manifested from
- A salagrama stone of Gopala Bhatta Gosvami
- Temple
- Radha-Ramana Mandir, Vrindavana
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