Temple Timings

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Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita was an incarnation of Nārada Muni, and thus Śrīvāsa’s younger brother, Śrīrāma Paṇḍita, is accepted as an incarnation of Parvata Muni, Nārada Muni’s most intimate friend.
(CC Adi 12.65)

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then told Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura, “My dear Śrīvāsa, your nature is exactly like that of Nārada Muni. The Supreme Personality of Godhead’s opulence is having a direct influence upon you.
(CC Madhya 14.216)

There are innumerable devotees of the Lord, of whom Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura is the foremost. I offer my respectful obeisances thousands of times unto their lotus feet.
(CC Adi 1.38)

Jiva was agitated with love as he remembered the Lord’s Pastimes, and he rolled on the ground in Srivasa’s courtyard. Then just as Jiva was getting up, he saw Gauranga dancing wonderfully amidst his intimate associates in sankirtana. Advaita, Nityananda, Gadadhara, and haridasa were dancing and singing. And they were joined by Suklambara and hundreds of others. Seeing this, Jiva became unconscious with ecstatic love.
(Sri Navadvipa-Dhama-Mahatmya, Chapter 5)

I long to take the Lord back to Mayapur where, shining in the dress of a young boy with long curly hair and dhoti folded thrice. He performs pastimes with His young friends in Īsodyāna.
Of course this sannyasi is also my Lord, and I am His servant. These different appearances that the Lord assumes are just part of His unlimited pastimes. But still my heart desires to take the Lord back to Srīvāsa Pandita’s temple on the bank of Prthu-kunda!
(Sri Navadvipa Bhava-taranga)

Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita, Śrīrāma Paṇḍita, and Śrī Candraśekhara are worshiped throughout the three worlds.
COMMENTARY
Śrīvāsa and Śrīrāma are described in Śrī Kavi-karṇapūra’s Gauragaṇoddeśa- dīpikā (90) as follows: “The most intelligent Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita is nondifferent from Śrī Nārada Muni. Śrī Parvata Muni, who was very dear to Nārada Muni, has now appeared as Śrīrāma Paṇḍita, the younger brother of Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita.” After the Lord took sannyāsa, Śrīvāsa and Śrīrāma left Navadvīpa and resided at Kumārahaṭṭa. (See Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter 5.)
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṇḍa 2.34)

The specific acts performed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at this time were His showing favor to Devānanda Paṇḍita and excusing the brāhmaṇa known as Gopāla Cāpala from the offense he had committed at the lotus feet of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura.
(CC Madhya 1.153)

One night while kīrtana was going on inside Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s house, a brāhmaṇa named Gopāla Cāpāla, the chief of the nonbelievers, who was talkative and very rough in his speech, placed all the paraphernalia for worshiping the goddess Durgā outside Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s door. On the upper portion of a plantain leaf, he placed such paraphernalia for worship as oḍa-phula, turmeric, vermilion, red sandalwood, and rice. He placed a pot of wine beside all this, and in the morning when Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura opened his door he saw this paraphernalia. Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura called for all the respectable gentlemen of the neighborhood and smilingly addressed them as follows. “Gentlemen, every night I worship the goddess Bhavānī. Since the paraphernalia for the worship is present here, now all you respectable brāhmaṇas and members of the higher castes can understand my position.” Then all the assembled gentlemen exclaimed, “What is this? What is this? Who has performed such mischievous activities? Who is that sinful man?” They called for a sweeper [hāḍi], who threw all the items of worship far away and cleansed the place by mopping it with a mixture of water and cow dung. After three days, leprosy attacked Gopāla Cāpāla, and blood oozed from sores all over his body. Incessantly covered with germs and insects biting him all over his body, Gopāla Cāpāla felt unbearable pain. His entire body burned in distress. Since leprosy is an infectious disease, Gopāla Cāpāla left the village to sit down on the bank of the Ganges underneath a tree. One day, however, he saw Caitanya Mahāprabhu passing by and spoke to Him as follows. My dear nephew, I am Your maternal uncle in our village relationship. Please see how greatly this attack of leprosy has afflicted me. As an incarnation of God, You are delivering so many fallen souls. I am also a greatly unhappy fallen soul. Kindly deliver me by Your mercy. Hearing this, Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared greatly angry, and in that angry mood He spoke some words chastising him. O sinful person, envious of pure devotees, I shall not deliver you! Rather, I shall have you bitten by these germs for many millions of years. You have made Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura appear to have been worshiping the goddess Bhavānī. Simply for this offense, you will have to fall down into hellish life for ten million births. I have appeared in this incarnation to kill the demons [pāṣaṇḍīs] and, after killing them, to preach the cult of devotional service. After saying this, the Lord left to take His bath in the Ganges, and that sinful man did not give up his life but continued to suffer. When Śrī Caitanya, after accepting the renounced order of life, went to Jagannātha Purī and then came back to the village of Kuliyā, upon His return that sinful man took shelter at the Lord’s lotus feet. The Lord, being merciful to him, gave him instructions for his benefit. “You have committed an offense at the lotus feet of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura,” the Lord said. “First you must go there and beg for his mercy, and then if he gives you his blessings and you do not commit such sins again, you will be freed from these reactions.” Then the brāhmaṇa, Gopāla Cāpāla, went to Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura and took shelter of his lotus feet, and by Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s mercy he was freed from all sinful reactions.
(CC Adi 17.37 – 17.59)