Disappearance Day of Sri Vamsidasa Babaji

What is the Disappearance Day of Sri Vamsidasa Babaji?

Sri Vamsidasa Babaji spent his life in Navadvipa, the land of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's pastimes, simply and alone. Devotees honour the day he left this world and entered the Lord's eternal pastimes. At Kurukshetra his disappearance day falls on Thursday, 5 August 2027, together with that of Sri Raghunandana Thakura.

Significance

He lived at Swarupa Gunj in the time of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who respected him and had brahmacaris of the Gaudiya Matha bring him grain and other supplies. The babaji's whole world was his Deities: Gaura-Gadadhara, Nitai, Radha-Krishna and Gopala. He cooked for Them slowly, washing every vegetable and checking each grain of rice, and through much of the night he talked and sang to Them. He never put a lock on his hut. The three keys, he said, were with Gaura, Nitai and Gadadhara.

His intense and sometimes startling ways were not meant to be imitated. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta once told his brahmacaris to keep away from him, because they could not understand the babaji's mood and would only commit offences.

How to observe it

Honour him by giving your full attention and love to your own Deity service, or to your offering of food. Chant the holy names, and remember his answer to a man who said he wanted to see the Lord: weep for Him.