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Sri Rupa Gosvamiru He was born in 1489 (there are different years given
by different historians) and he left his body in 1564, the same year
as Sanatana Gosvami (some say later). They are believed to have passed
away 27 days apart from each other. Rupa Gosvami’s samadhi is
besides the Radha Damodara Temple. It is said that Rupa Gosvami arrived in Vrindavana in
1517 and that Sanatana arrived a few years later. It is said that
they first stayed at Dhruva Ghata in Mathura and then moved to Vrindavana. He came to Vrindavana to fulfill four orders of Lord Caitanya: (1) Uncover the lost pastime places of Krishna, (2) install Deities, (3) write books about devotional service (bhakti-sastras), and (4) propagate the rules of bhakti-yoga. He was a learned scholar and was proficient in Sanskrit, Bengali, Persian and Arabic. He found the Deity of Govinda at the present location of the Govindaji Temple. Rupa Gosvami performed bhajana at Seva Kunja, Radha
Kunda, Ter Kadamba (near Nandagram) and Varsana. He would live under
a tree, under a thorny thicket or in a cave. When Rupa Gosvami lived
at Seva Kunja (present day downtown Vrindavana) there were no temples
and buildings, just forest. In Sadhana Dipika it says that Rupa Gosvami
could make Deities, draw expertly, was a master of astrology and mathematics,
and he was a great Gaudiya Vaishnava philosopher and scholar.
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