Vamshivadan Thakura – Serving those who are serving in separation

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Hare Krishna On this sacred occasion associated with Vamshi Vadhan Das Thakur let us meditate on his special position and past times so Vamshi Vadhan Thakur he is known by various names Vadhanananda, Vamshi Vadhan Vamshi Vadhanananda Thakur many names are there like that like there is a full book written by his grandson Vamshi Vilas which describes his past times and they are also described in other literature more well known Kaurya literature like Bhakti Ratnakar and also Kavi Karnapur Chaitan Chandoday Natak so he the Gaurav Kanodesh Deepika describes that he was Krishna’s Vamshi he is a manifestation of the flute of Krishna and this Krishna’s flute produces very sweet music Vamshi Vadhan Thakur also produces very sweet songs glorifying Krishna glorifying Lord Chaitanya and he is a very prominent composer of songs within the Gaudiya tradition and his fortune is immense in many ways when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was going towards Vrindavan and his trip ended in Kanai Narshala and he came back so at that time on the way he stayed at the house of the parents of Vamshi Vadhan Thakur and then actually that was the time when Vamshi Vadhan was born so what is the immense fortune that the Lord as well as Avedacharya Lord both were present at the time of the birth of this great devotee so auspicious it was and then he blossomed into a great devotee himself when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took sanyas Vamshi Vadhan Thakur entrusted the responsibility of serving and protecting Vishnupriya Devi and Sachi Mata and he did this service with great diligence he had his own deity of Pranavallabha he also worshipped the deities of Gopinathji which he had got from his ancestors and he also helped at the request of Vishnupriya Devi to worship Shriman Mahaprabhu that was Sachi Devi would worship that deity sorry Vishnupriya Devi would worship that deity and Vamshi Vadhan Thakur would assist in that worship now the Bhakt Ratnakar describes how when Srinivasa Thakur Srinivasa Acharya came there at that time he realized oh they had not met earlier Srinivasa Acharya had come to Navadvip and there he surmised guessed Vamshi Vadhan Thakur guessed this must be Srinivasa Acharya and he was delighted to see Srinivasa Acharya wanted to offer obeisances but he said no no no Vamshi Vadhan Thakur said no and he embraced him and he informed Sachi Mata that this great devotee has come and got the Sachi Mata and Vishnupriya Devi met this great devotee now he has composed songs and he is serving those who are serving in separation so in the song he describes I am calling out to Nimai, I am calling out to Lord Chaitanya and where is he, he is not appearing anywhere I long to see Nimai and Nitya dancing together in the house of Sachi Mata and yet I never see them alas, alas, alas he says that cruel Keshav Bharati came and took Lord Chaitanya away and submerged the devotees in ocean of separation and devastation and when I hear the crying of the mother and the wife of Lord Chaitanya my heart breaks I fall on the ground and I cry tears of agony so in this way he is manifesting an extraordinary bhava so there is service in separation which is exalted, very exalted it involves very intense remembrance of Krishna and Vamshudan Thakur is serving those who are serving in separation, serving the top most of those who are serving in separation so he so his whole life he served the served Sachi Mata and then Vishnupriya Devi and this way he demonstrated he performed a very important responsibility for Chaitanya Mahaprabhu when he left, no protector so he performed this service and when he was performing this service competently Chaitanya Mahaprabhu inundated the whole world with Harinam Sankirtan and Bhakti Rasa so Vamshudan Thakur demonstrates how even even in very difficult situations one can serve and one can assist devotees in appropriate mood with the appropriate emotions so we can pray to Vamshudan Thakur that we can also develop this feeling of intense devotion and intense service attitude by which we can also assist in some small way in the lord’s mission Vamshudan Thakur Ki Jai