Radhanath Swami on Nidhivan

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In Vrindavan there are some special places with fascinating histories. Nidhivan is a very beautiful kunja of small trees. According to Vishwanath Chakravarty Thakur when Lord Krishna left Rasalila to find Srimati Radharani, this is the place where it had happened. Vishwanath Chakravarty Thakur wrote a story Svapna Vilas where he explains the pastimes of a dream.

In Nidhivan, there is a very beautiful temple called Ranga Mahal where Radha & Krishna would go to rest. Vishwanath Chakravarty Thakur explains that once when Srimati Radharani was resting here, she had a dream.

She woke up and said to Krishna, “I have to tell You the dream that I just saw. You have shown me so many different ways you appear in this world but the form I saw in this dream was very special. I saw a beautiful golden form, more beautiful than any other incarnation. This form was dancing ecstatically on the banks of a river which looked exactly like Yamuna and a forest which looked exactly like Vrindavan. And I saw all around were thousands of people chanting and dancing. It was the form of a Brahmin chanting with His arms raised. He was flooding the whole universe with love of god. Sometimes this golden bodied brahman was crying out. O My Lord Krsna! Where are You and sometimes I heard him crying out, O My beloved Radha! Where are you. And when I saw Him chanting like this I felt He was You. Can you tell me who is this person?” Krishna lifted his Kaustubha mani and told Srimati Radharani to look within it. When she looked within it she saw the exact same pastime. Srimati Radharani said, “Now I can understand that both of us are going to combine. The two of us are going to incarnate in this age of Kaliyuga to spread Our love throughout the world through the congregational chanting of Our holy names.”

Lord Caitanya appeared to distribute this love to the whole world. All the Goswamis were preparing for the Lord’s mission to spread. On that historical day, Friday 13th August 1965, Srila Prabhupada boarded the Jaladuta. He had about forty rupees which could not be changed outside India. He had his Japa beads, an umbrella and a box of Srimad Bhagavatam. It was at Radha Damodar temple that he worked for years writing his books. Srimad Bhagavatam was the basis of all the writings of the Goswamis and Lord Caitanya proclaimed it to be the spotless purana.

– Radhanath Swami

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25 comments

  1. Such a unique pastime at Nidhivan. Thanks to Radhanath Swami for sharing the same.

  2. This pastime goes to show how that Krishna & Radha combine to appear as Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to deliver the whole world by distributing Krishna prema !!

  7. Wonderful article ..Thank you so much HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj Ji for beautifully explaining this pastime..

  8. Very heart touching story of Shrimati Radharani’s dream. These stories give lot of inspiration to get engaged into the divine world of devotional service.

  11. For me this is real.Not Dream.It is really very wonderful episode that Radha and Krsna would combindingly incarnate. All glories to HH Radhanatha Svami Maharaja.

  13. This is the great fortune of the Kali-Yuga generations that Lord appeared here on this earth planet without any weapon in His hand.Instead He only bought Beads and distributed Holy Names of the God.Thank you very much for sharing the nice story with us.

  14. Nidhivan is such a wonderful & Potent place in Vraja dham. anyone who goes can surely feel the vibrations there ! and to hear from Source like Radhanath swami Maharaj is indeed amazing one ! its really so much nectar and transcendental !
    thank you Maharaj

  15. Beautiful pastime. Chaitanya Mahaprabhu teaches us selfless love and compassion through his succession and his followers are so powerful with no material influence in hand they gave everyone the real treasure of holy name. Thank you for this explanation Radhanath Swami.

  20. Thank you so much HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj Ji for wonderfully narrating NIdhivan pastime..

  22. Wonderful story of how Lord Chaitanya is avtaar in Kaliyuga – a combination of Radha & Krishna!

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