Six Goswamins

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The life and teachings of Six Goswamies in this brochure are collections from the writings of Rupanuga Acharyas.

The Advent of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and six Goswamies into this world is a most marked event even to great celestials.

The ideal lives and teachings of saints are a precious heritage for guiding the destinies of men and for inspiring them in their march forward to the attainment of Divine Bliss. We all now that the lives of great men carry with them, magnetic influence from which we can not often scape. Both in the mundane as well as in the spiritual realms, lives of great personalities, the hardships and the selfless sacrifices, which they underwent for their respective causes, generate in the minds of men, an impetus to emulate them. Our country is flooded with the autobiographies of many eminent persons who have achieved their greatness both in the physical and intellectual regions. Those biographies somehow do not help humanity to achieve real eternal peace and happiness, nor do these settle the discord and chaos that are on the increase, without the lives and teachings of saintly personages the achievements of humanity must, indeed be very poor. God-Loving Saints or Bhaktas who come down and move in the world, not for any selfish purpose of their own, but solely for the welfare of humanity, are none other than the agents of the Lord, deputed by Him for the expression of the purpose of regeneration and uplift of all fallen souls.

Six Goswamies like Sri Sanatana, Sri Rupa, Sri Raghunath Das, Sri Jeeva, Sri Raghunath Bhatta and Sri Gopal Bhatta are celebrated devotees of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu, occupy prominent position amongst the devotees of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and a long life of devotees, India can boast of. They followed the total course of Saranagati. The six-fold features of Saranagati are: 1. Activities favourable to devotional progress, 2. unfavourable acts that arrest devotional progress, 3. Firm confidence in the Lord, 4. Choosing the Lord as Protector, 5. Self-dedication to the Lord, and 6. Prayers with repentance.

Saranagati leads a devotee to the realisation of liberation and finally Divine Love. The various secrets and specialities in the vast field of Divine Love such as Sneh, Maan, Pranaya, Raga, Anuraga, Bhav, Mahabhav, Dasya, Sakhya Vatsalya and Madhurya Rasas are realized only by Atma Nivedan. Atma Nivedan is complete surrender of one's body, mind, words, deeds thoughts, Atma and all other things that he feels or claims as his own with the knowledge of relationship and guided by predominant feeling of rendering whole-hearted service to the Supreme Lord.

This small booklet is reprinted by the Bhakti Vigyan Nityananda Book Trust realizing its importance for the neophytes as well as followers of the cult of devotion by the benign guidance and advice of the President of the Book Trust as well as the founder Acharya of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission, Sri Srimad Bhakti Vaibhaba Puri Goswami Maharaj. The book is published and we hope that this small book will be helpful to strengthen one's devotion, who finds pleasure the Six Gowamins to follow up their teachings in reaching the abode of peace, Golak Dham, the sporting place of Radha Krishna, by having love and devotion of Krishna which is the summon bonum of every soul.