Abhirama Thakura – Spiritual empowerment manifests through extraordinary material actions

Hare Krishna On this sacred day Associated with Abhiram Gopal Thakur Let’s contemplate briefly His glories Abhiram Gopal Thakur Is Shri Dama Sakha Called Gaurav Gauravesh Deepika And he was a prominent associate Of Lord Nityananda And When Lord Chitrananda sent Nityananda Prabhu to preach to Bengal He and Gadadhar Das Were the prominent associates Who went with Nityananda Prabhu And At a place called Khana Krishna Nagar He used to live With his wife Malini He was an extraordinary devotee In many ways he is He was fearsome For atheists Such was his spiritual potency That it would bow down to any Sheela If that person If any stone which was Some people were pretenders Because they were saying that this is actual Sheela And they were misleading people Then that Sheela would crack And he had a whip named Jai Mangal When you touch it When you whip somebody with it A person becomes infused with pure love for Krishna Such was his potency And especially instructive about his life His The way the Lord himself appeared to him One time when he was sleeping At that time Gopinath appeared to him in a dream And told that I am Buried over here.
Please excavate me And arrange to have me worshipped Abhiram Thakur woke up Excited. This is actually similar to the story of Madhavendra Puri And he went there and started digging As per the direction given in the dream And gradually found the deity And there was a mind enchanting Captivating extremely beautiful Deity of Gopinathji And then he installed the deity And started worshipping it And not only did he worship The deity inspired Many many people from various places To take shelter of the Lord As the deity and as the holy name And he would He would infuse People with Attraction to Krishna just by his presence By his chanting And by his potency Spiritual potency. Now his spiritual potency Manifested not only in spiritual ways In terms of Attracting people to Krishna Infusing attraction to Krishna In people’s heart but also in Materially astonishing ways At one time in his Brass He desired to play A flute.
Now he looked around and did not see any Stones suitable to flute So he picked up a giant tree And just picked it up And started using it as a flute and playing it And the tree was such that several people could not Lift it but he lifted it Effortlessly. How is that possible? That is Krishna’s inconceivable mercy And Krishna’s omnipotence Is available to a devotee But the devotee has an intense desire To serve Krishna and by that omnipotence A devotee can do anything So he wanted to Practice devotion and Share devotion and for that purpose The Lord empowered him in extraordinary ways Enabled him to lift a Lift a huge Tree, revealed himself as a deity Gave him an empowered Jai Mangal to infuse All the love of Krishna and those who were pretenders Of devotion, he gave them the possibility To expose them also So this is the extraordinary Potency of Abhiram Gopal Thakur and he was also known As Ramadas and the place where he Worshipped the deity Of Gopinath that also came to be Known as Ram Ghat So his Appearance day is celebrated with great Festivity In the Navdeep area and Actually he is an intimate Associate of Lord Nityananda and we can pray to him For his mercy so that we can Also get a Little bit of infused Krishna potency within Us by which we can transform our hearts And assist in our own Small way in transforming other people’s hearts Abhiram Gopal Thakur.