Koladvipa

Jagannatha das Babaji’s samadhi is located here. This great Acharya in our line lived over 150 years ago. He was regarded as the chief of the Vaishnavas. In 1893, when he was 142 years old, he went with Bhaktivinoda Thakur to try to find the real birthplace of Lord Caitanya. He was so old that he could not walk and his body was stooped over. His eyelids drooped so much that if he wanted to see something, his disciples would have to hold his eyelids open with their fingers. He was able to travel to the holy places of Navadvipa in a basket which his disciples carried on their heads. Despite his decrepit condition, when he reached the spot where Lord Caitanya was born (in Antardvipa), he jumped out of his basket twelve feet into the air and began to dance in ecstasy.

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