Dhananjay Pandit – Surrender to difficult and demanding services

Hare Krishna on the sacred occasion associated with Shraddhanam and Jaya Pandit let us contemplate on his glory Shraddhanam Jaya Pandit was an intimate associate of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who lived in Navadvipa at his time and he is described by the Gaudiya Acharya as a Vilakshana Mahanta a Mahanta is itself a great soul, a great leader of the spiritual community and Vilakshana Mahanta is a extraordinary leader extraordinarily empowered and special person and he was instructed by Lord Chaitanya to carry on his mission in Vrindavan, so just like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu told the Goswamis to go from various places wherever there to Vrindavan to establish his mission there Chaitanya Mahaprabhu basically focused on three places, Bengal was the place where he lived and most of his associates lived and they spread Krishna Consciousness over there he himself lived in Puri and he flooded Utkala as the area of Orissa was then called with Krishna Prem and he sent the Goswamis to revive to Vrindavan to revive and rejuvenate Krishna Bhakti in that area and to write Shastras over there so he sent many of his associates to assist the Goswamis in their difficult and demanding mission so one such associate who took up this enormous responsibility was Dhananjay Pandit Dhananjay Pandit is in Vraja Leela Vasudama Sakha so he is one of the Dwadash Gopalas in of Balramji in Krishna Leela and he when he was on his way to Vrindavan he travelled widely and shared Krishna Prem with many many people in various places and eventually when he reached Vrindavan among the four missions the Goswamis had been given one was to rediscover the lost holy places of Vrindavan second is to build the temples for the various deities in Vrindavan third is to write books establishing how pure devotional service is the essential teaching of the Vedic scriptures and to establish to write books about how to practice devotional service so among these Dhananjay Pandit especially took up the responsibility of establishing deities and he helped in establishing many deities there was a deity of Govinda of Damodar and other deities he took the responsibility of meticulously and with great devotion serving those deities and having temples arranged for them and ensuring that their worship went on with the highest standards and as an interpreter of Sri Vrindavan Mahaprabhu who after being in Mayapur in Bengal and observing in close proximity the pastimes of Lord Gauranga and then going to Vrindavan where he was surrounded by the places where Lord Krishna had performed his pastimes and in his heart he was constantly remembering Lord Gauranga and in this way with both his worshipable lords in his heart Gauranga and Krishna Chandra Dhananjay Pandit performed extraordinary devotional service so we can pray to him for his mercy so that we can also render whatever small service is possible for us in the glorious mission of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Thank you very much. Hare Krishna.