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Sri Gadadhara Pandit

He was an extremely intimate associate of Lord Caitanya. He appeared a year after Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Gadadhara (Gadai) and Nimai (Sri Caitanya) were childhood playmates. They were students together in the tola (Sanskrit school) of Ganga Dasa Pandit. He was Lord Caitanya’s chief assistant during Sri Caitanya’s Navadvipa pastimes. In Gaura Ganoddesa Dipika it is stated that he is Srimati Radharani in Krishna’s pastimes.

“No one can describe the characteristics and ecstatic love of Gadadhara Pandit. Therefore another name for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Gadadhara Prananatha, ‘the life and soul of Gadadhara Pandit.’” (Caitanya-caritamrita)
Gadadhara Pandit took sannyasa and went to Jagannatha Puri to be with Lord Caitanya. He accepted ksetra sannyasa (a renunciate who never leaves the holy dhama). He served the Deity of Tota-Gopinatha in Puri. Lord Caitanya entered into the Tota-Gopinatha Deity to leave this world. Sri Caitanya would regularly hear Sri Gadadhara read Srimad Bhagavatam.

His danta (tooth) samadhi is near the Vamsi Gopala temple in Vrindavana, close to Kesi Ghata

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