Sri Syamananda Sataka- The Glory of Sri Syamananda Gopi

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Rasikananda met his spiritual master, Syamananda, when he was an eighteen-year- old youth named Rasika Murari Patnaik, and later on became known as his chief disciple. He was born in 1590 AD, fifty-six years after the disappearance of Śri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He was the son of a wealthy landowner in West Bengal.

Rasikananda vigorously preached so that he became a very influential spiritual master who firmly established the sect known as Syamanandi Vaisnavas, devotees who execute Krsna consciousness in the mood of his guru. This book, Syāmānanda-sataka, was written in the latter part of Rasikananda's life and it is purely glorification of his spiritual master, ravening his eternal relationship with Lord SreKrsna.

In text 27 it is revealed that Syamananda was a gopi associate of Radha and Krsna who left the spiritual world to descend into this material world for the purpose of displaying his mercy upon the fallen conditioned souls struggling in Kali. yuga. Like an actor on the stage, he played the part of a human being, causing the unfortunate souls of this age to fall in love with Kṛṣṇa.

Toward the end of his life, Rasikananda settled in Remuna, Orissa, where the Deity of Kṣira-coră Gopinatha is situated. The samadhi of Rasikananda Prabhu can still be seen within the temple of Kṣira-cora Gopinatha at Remuna.

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