Devotees Vaishnavas: Ärî Locana Dâsa Ùhâkura

viernes, 18 de junio de 2010

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Ärî Locana Dâsa Ùhâkura

Ärî Locana dâsa Ùhâkura took birth in a family of Rarhiya physicians who resided in the village of Kogram, within the Mahakumar (Katna) district of Barddhaman. His guru was Ärî Narahari Sarkar Ùhâkura.

"I am the servant of Ùhâkura Ärî Narahari, who is the master of my life. The desire of all my desires, I place at his lotus feet; which is that this vile creature (myself) might describe something about the wonderful qualities of Ärî Gaurasundara. In this expectation, he is my only refuge. (Caitanya-mangala, Satvakhanda).

His father's name was Ärî Kamalakara dâsa and his mother's name, Ärî Sadananda. He was the only son of his parents. He was raised in his maternal grandfather's home and ªhis education was completed there. He was married at a very young age. From his youth he was very attached to Ärî Gaurasundara and consequently very disinterested in material life, though he was surrounded by family, friends and society. In his youth he spent the major part of his time at his guru's Ärîpat, Ärîkhanda, where he learned how to do kirtana.

He composed Caitanya-mangala from the diary of Ärî Murâri Gupta. "Murâri Gupta, who resides at Nadia, composed many beautiful verses about the life of Ärî Gaurâôga. These include the youthful pastimes of Nimai, which Murâri Gupta personally took part in, and His later pastimes in Nilacala, after He accepted sannyasa, which were narrated by Ärî Damodara Paòàita. Having heard these verses of Murâri Gupta, composed in sanskrit, I have become very attracted and so I have composed them in the village folk poetry meter of Bengali."

In east Bengal there are many village poets who sing in various meters known as Laksmir Pancali, Sanir Pancali and Manasa Bhasan. Locana dâsa Ùhâkura has composed Ärî Caitanya-mangala in the meter of these folk poems. Pancali contains five various kinds of meters.

Ärî Vrindavana dâsa Ùhâkura's composition on the pastimes of Ärî Gaurasundara was originally entitled Caitanya-mangala, but later on the name was changed to Caitanya-bhagavat. Those pastimes which were not described in full by Ärî Vrindavana dâsa Ùhâkura, Locana dâsa has described in his Caitanya-mangala. In the invocation of this work he has first offered his obeisances to Vrindavana dâsa Ùhâkura, "whose Caitanya-bhagavata has enamored the entire world."

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