SRILA RAGHUNANDANA THAKURA

MUNDO

VAISHNAVA

MAESTROS ESPIRITUALES

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Padyavali Devi Dasi

TODAY IS ALSO THE GLORIOUS APPEARANCE DAY OF SRILA RAGHUNANDANA THAKURA:

SRILA RAGHUNANDANA THAKURA

Srila Raghunandana Thakura was the son of the great devotee Mukunda Dasa.

Śrī Khaṇḍavāsī Mukunda and his son Raghunandana were the thirty-ninth branch of the tree, Narahari was the fortieth, Cirañjīva the forty-first and Sulocana the forty-second. They were all big branches of the all-merciful tree of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. They distributed the fruits and flowers of love of Godhead anywhere and everywhere. CC. Adi-lila 10.78-79

Śrī Mukunda dāsa was the son of Nārāyaṇa dāsa and eldest brother of Narahari Sarakāra. His second brother's name was Mādhava dāsa, and his son was named Raghunandana dāsa. Descendants of Raghunandana dāsa still live four miles west of Katwa in the village named Śrīkhaṇḍa, where Raghunandana dāsa used to live. Raghunandana had one son named Kānāi, who had two sons, Madana Rāya, who was a disciple of Narahari Ṭhākura, and Vaḿśīvadana. It is estimated that at least four hundred men descended in this dynasty. All their names are recorded in the village of Śrīkhaṇḍa. 

In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (175) it is stated that the gopī whose name was Vṛndādevī became Mukunda dāsa, lived in Śrīkhaṇḍa village and was very dear to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. His wonderful devotion and love for Kṛṣṇa are described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā, Chapter Fifteen.

It is stated in the Bhakti-ratnākara (Eighth Wave) that Raghunandana used to serve a Deity of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.

 — con Vijay Thakur y Vikram Singh.