Rudradvipa Gaudiya Math

Opening Time
4:30am – 12:00am
3:00pm – 7:00pm

Information – Earlier Rudradvipa was situated on the western bank of the Ganges. But due to the erosion of the Ganges, Rudra Dvipa is now situated on the eastern bank of the Ganges. Rudra Deva knew that Gaurahari would appear in Nadia in His eternal golden form. He came here and worshipped Gauranga. Sri Gaurasundara appeared before him and told him that immediately He would incarnate in Sri Mayapur and fulfill his wish. The place is named Rudradvipa because Sri Rudradeva worshipped Gaura here. This is the very place, where the propagator of Shudha Advaita (purified monism), Acharya Sree Vishnu Swami received the mercy of Rudra and became the Acharya of Rudra-sampradya.

Information – Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada established the Gaudiya Math at this place in 1936. The deity of Gauranga Mahaprabhu that Srila Prabhupada served while performing the hundred crores (shata-koti) nama yajna, is present here. On 7th March, 1936, during the Navadvipa Parikrama, Srila Prabhupada installed the deities of Gaura-Radha Madhava.

If you are indeed interested in logic and argument, kindly apply it to the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. If you do so, you will find it to be strikingly wonderful.
(CC Adi 8.15)

Mahā-rudra incarnated from Your anger. Through Him You annihilate the entire creation. Rudra, who is nondifferent from Saṅkarṣaṇa, appeared from the face of Saṅkarṣaṇa and devours the three worlds (through the fire of time)
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya-khaṇḍa 15.039 – 15.040)

Information –
“During 1905, at age thirty-one, Sri Siddhanta Sarasvati took a vow to chant daily at least three lakh holy names, and monthly at least ten million, until he had chanted one billion names. He chanted on a japa-mala given by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who had himself used them to fulfill a vow of chanting a billion holy names. Sri Siddhanta Sarasvati’s sata-koti-nama-yajna, which he performed before a deity of Lord Caitanya, lasted just over nine years and four months and was punctuated by much struggle, and several colorful incidents, including attempts to oust him from Mayapur. Yet he was determined to continue service there, no matter what.”
(“Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava” Volume One by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami, Chapter ‘Pre-Sannyasa Period’, Page 38-39)

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Prabhupāda chose the most secluded spot in the house of Śrī Chandrashekhara Ācārya (Sri Chaitanya Math) in Śrīdhāma Māyāpur to fulfill his vow of chanting śata-koṭi harināma. In accordance with his vow, he chanted three lakhs of nāma daily. In 1914, Srila Prabhupada completed his vow of chanting one billion holy names (sata-koti-nama-yajna).

Authors’ note – This note provides a rough estimate concerning the monumental Sata-Koti-Nāma-Yajña (100 Crores ~ 1 Billion Nama Yajna) undertaken by Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī.

Narottam Das Thakur has written this song.Gauranga Bolite Habe. The official name of this song is Lalasmayi Prarthana. In this song, Narottam Das Thakur wonders when will that opportune moment come when he will be highly spiritually advanced and will be able to understand Vrndavana.