Monday Oct 26 (India) 25th (US) is Gaura-astami. The Disappearance Day of Sri Gadadhara das Goswami, Srila Dhananjaya Pandit and Srila Srinivas Acharya Prabhu (As a result of coming in contact with the whip of Abhirama Thakura, Srinivas Acharya became filled with Sri Krishna prema). Sri Gopastami, Sri Gosthastami, Go-puja and Go-gras dan are also celebrated on this day.Srila Gadadhara dasaSrila Gadadhara dasa is considered to be a united form of Candrakanti, who is the effulgence of Srimati Radharani, and Purnananda, who is an expansion of Lord Balarama's dear friend.
Thus Srila Gadadhara dasa was one of the associates of both Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu.
Once while Srila Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was returning to Bengal from Jagannatha Puri with Nityananda Prabhu, he forgot himself and began talking very loudly as if he were a girl of Vrajabhumi selling yogurt, and Srila Nityananda Prabhu noted this.
Another time, while absorbed in the ecstasy of the gopis, he carried a jug filled with Ganges water on his head as if he were selling milk.
When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in the house of Raghava Pandita while going to Vrndavana, Gadadhara dasa went to see Him, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was so glad that he put His foot on his head. When Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was present in Endiyadaha he established a Bala Gopal murti for worship .
Another time, while absorbed in the ecstasy of the gopis, he carried a jug filled with Ganges water on his head as if he were selling milk.
When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in the house of Raghava Pandita while going to Vrndavana, Gadadhara dasa went to see Him, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was so glad that he put His foot on his head. When Gadadhara dasa Prabhu was present in Endiyadaha he established a Bala Gopal murti for worship .
Caitanya Bhagavat
