Madhu Pandit Goswami – Single-minded focus to the Deity that defined the devotee

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Hare Krishna on the secret occasion associated with Madhu Pandit Goswami let us contemplate on his glories based on what we know about him. For great Vaishnavas often their lives are centered on just one particular service actually that’s not just because any form of service to Krishna is glorious it not only liberates a person from the miserable material existence but it also serves as an inspiration and a pathway for many others to also similarly become liberated and because of this the lives of Vaishnavas are inspiring even if we know only little vignettes about them so Madhu Pandit Goswami is a central defining life that we know about him is that he was the Pujari of the Gopinath deity.
He was initiated by Gadadhar Pandit so he was from Bengal and Gadadhar Pandit actually lived in Bengal and subsequently in Puri and he was among the group of Vaishnavas who would go from Bengal to Puri and he got initiation from Gadadhar Pandit and after getting initiation he came back and recognizing the need for fortifying the mission that Shetan Mahaprabhu had given to the Goswamis he felt inspired under the divine guidance of the Lord coming through his associates to move to Vrindavan and there in Vrindavan he assisted the Goswamis in fulfilling Lord Shetan Mahaprabhu’s mission so one of the missions was that to establish beautiful temples and he was actually the Goswamis discovered the deities or build the temples but afterwards they themselves were primarily given the responsibility of writing books and they had to do preaching in many other ways so the daily functioning of the temple which is also extremely demanding they often did not do it themselves so Madhav Pandit Goswami took that responsibility for the Gopinath deity. So the Gopinath deity is extremely ancient actually Vacharanath who was the survivor after the Kurukshetra war and he actually established many temples. The grandson of Krishna he was established so one of the deities that he established was Gopinath.
The deity was lost but eventually it was recovered and Madhav Pandit Goswami worshipped that deity with extraordinary devotion single-minded focus and not only was he blessed by the devotion but by he also became a medium through which many others were blessed by him, blessed through him and when eventually it was decided that because of the political instabilities in Vrindavan and because of the need to also provide a sound theological and philosophical foundation for the Vaishnavism that was widely prevalent in Gauradesh in Bengal as well as in Utkal, Odisha it was decided that the Goswami Granthas and the compilations of the writings of the Goswamis be taken back to Bengal and those and Shri Nathacharya, Narottam Das Thakur and Shyamanand Pandit were interested in that responsibility so when they were going it was Madhav Pandit who offered the Maha Garlands of the Gopinath deity to them and blessed them especially Shri Nathacharya who took up the responsibility when they were lost the deity the books he brought them back so the blessings of the Goswamis went through the Granthas and to those who were carrying the Granthas and the blessings of the Lord in the form of the deity went through, went with them in the Garland as the Garland given by Madhav Pandit Acharya and he was he is actually in Krishna’s Deela, he is the Mandali Sakhi in the view in the circle of Champaklata Sakhi and the exalted Vaishnava among the Gauraya Vaishnavas who helped Shri Yantana Mahaprabhu in founding and pioneering the Bhakti resurgence in that has blessed us to this day and which will bless us bless the world for many many more generations to come so you can pray to Madhav Pandit Goswami for his mercy by which we can also develop a drop of devotion and share that devotion according to our capacity. Shri Madhav Pandit Goswami ki Jai. Thank you.
Hare Krishna.