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Nanda Ghata (Baigram) This is where Nanda Maharaja was abducted by the servants of Varuna for bathing in the Yamuna at an inauspicious time. This place is also called Baigram. Bai means “fear”. Nanda Maharaja had a terrible fright here. There is a temple here with a yellow-colored deity of Nanda Maharaja. There is also a cave (gupha), where Jiva Gosvami stayed. It is said that Jiva Gosvami wrote the Satsandarbhas here Jiva Gosvami spent some time here living in a vacant crocodile hole. He came here because Rupa Gosvami asked him to leave his association because he did not accept the corrections Vallabhacarya made to Rupa Gosvami’s Bhakti Rasamrita Sindhu. Jiva Gosvami established that what Rupa Gosvami had written was correct. Rupa Gosvami then asked him to leave because Vallabhacarya was a senior devotee and should not have been corrected. Sanatana Gosvami later came to the crocodile hole that Jiva Gosvami was living in. He took Jiva Gosvami, who was not eating or sleeping and therefore very weak, back to Vrindavana. Sanatana Gosvami then went to Rupa Gosvami and asked him to take Jiva Gosvami back, which he did. At this place there are boats that take people to the
other side of the river to Bhadravana. Saving
Nanda Maharaja at Nanda Ghata “When Nanda Maharaja was taken away by Varuna’s servants, his companions began to call loudly for Krishna and Balarama. Immediately Krishna and Balarama could understand that Nanda Maharaja was taken by Varuna, and thus They went to the abode of Varuna, for They were pledged to give protection. The demigod Varuna received Lord Krishna and Balarama with great respect and said, ‘My dear Lord, actually at this very moment, because of Your presence, my life as the demigod Varuna has become successful. Although I am the proprietor of all the treasures in the water, I know that such possessions do not make for a successful life. But this moment, as I look at You, my life is made completely successful because by seeing You I no longer have to accept a material body. Therefore, O Lord, Supreme Personality of Godhead, Supreme Brahman and Supersoul of everything, let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You. You are the supreme transcendental personality; there is no possibility of imposing the influence of material nature upon You. I am very sorry that my men, being foolish, by not knowing what to do or what not to do, have mistakenly arrested Your father, Nanda Maharaja. So I beg Your pardon for the offense of my servants. I think that it was Your plan to show me Your mercy by Your personal presence here. My dear Lord Krishna, Govinda, be merciful upon me. Here is Your father. You can take him back immediately. “Actually, although Krishna was acting so wonderfully,
Maharaja Nanda and mother Yasoda could not think of Him as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. Instead, they always accepted Him as their
beloved child. Thus Nanda Maharaja did not accept the fact that Varuna
worshiped Krishna because Krishna was the Supreme Person; rather he
took it that because Krishna was such a wonderful child He was respected
even by Varuna. All the cowherd men, became eager to know if Krishna
was actually the Supreme Personality and if He was going to give them
salvation. When they were all thus consulting among themselves, Krishna
understood their minds, and in order to assure them of their destiny
in the spiritual kingdom, He showed them the spiritual sky”
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