Wonderful

Transcendental
Qualities and Activities of
Srila Gaur Kishor Das
Babaji Maharaj
 100000000% Detached from Material World!

This Vaisnava saint's life was an example of utter humility and

poverty, the true attributes of a Vaisnava. Gaurakisora Das Babajii
Maharaj never accepted any material object from anyone. For his
clothing he used the discarded loin cloths from corpses left on the
bank of the Ganges. For food, he would collect rice by begging, soak it
in river water, and garnish it with salt and chilly. He never asked
favors from anyone and lived a fully detached life, devoid of all
possessions.
 Even to flowers and trees of Vrindavan

Krishna. He even offered his obeisances to the flowers, trees, and

land around him. He spent about thirty years at Vraja mandala
serving the deities there. Afterwards, perhaps by the direction of the
Supreme Lord, he left for Navadvipa.
 Unconscious State!!

During his stay at Navadvipa, Gaurakisora Das Babajii Maharaj

underwent various transformations of spiritual moods. Sometimes
he danced on the bank of the Ganges chanting, "Gaura, Gaura", while
at other times he would lie on the ground in an unconscious state.
 What A Wonderful Saint!
Though Babaji Maharaja could neither read nor write he was
regarded as vastly learned and self-realized. His only possessions
were the Tulasi beads around his neck and the japa mala he kept in
his hand. Sometimes he wore no Tulasi mala on his neck and would
chant on knotted cloth as beads such was his renunciation.
Sometimes he would live under an old broken overturned boat, and
other times he would scatter fish bones around a place he
occasionally used as his bhajan kutir to make materialists think he
was a fish-eater, and thus they would not disturb him. But by his
pure bhajan he purified the three worlds.
In 1908 Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja lost his external eye sight,
so he then stopped travelling and just chanted and performed worship
of Krishna. Being aloof from external consciousness, sometimes he
would not dress his body - instead he would sit in his bhajan kutir
internally absorbed in Krishna's pastimes and in a very deep voice be
heard calling the names of the gopis of Vrndavana.
 I will never go to the Material World!

Once Srila Varsabhanavi-devi-dayita dasa, Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati

thakur, offered to take Babaji Maharaja to Calcutta to see an eye
specialist, but he refused saying, "Never! I will never go to the material
world." His disciple protested, "But in Calcutta I could serve you nicely.
You wouldn't have to undergo any inconvenience." But Babaji Maharaja
was adamant declaring, "I will never accept this service. Better I throw
myself in the Saraswati (Jalanghi) and drown."
 One person brought me across the river, Krsna!

Once Babaji Maharaja turned up at the Yoga Pitha (Lord Chaitanya's

birthplace) at two in the morning. Amazed, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Saraswati enquired how he got there in the pitch black of night. Babaji
Maharaja replied, "Someone brought me here." "Who could have brought
you such a distance at this time?" enquired Bhaktisiddhanta. Finally his
mind concluded, "It must have been Krishna who personally brought you
here or else how did you cross the Ganges? How did you find your way
across the dark fields?" But Babaji Maharaja would not answer more
than, "One person brought me across the river, that's all."
 Deeep!!!
One day Srila Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji Maharaja wrapped his body
and two feet with a cloth. Sitting covered like this he said, "Many
persons, after being informed by others, come here to collect the dust
from my feet. I tell them I am not a Vaisnava. If you go to the vicinity
where there are Vaisnavas with their feet pretentiously decorated
and extended to touch, you can have unlimited dust. How can I bless
you? I don't have barfi or sandesh or rasagulla, or even sweet words.
How can I bless you? Nowadays people are interested in spiritual
masters who can give these things wealth, good wife, sweet words
these cheating things are now taken as anakula (favourable)."
 Food that we eat!
Srila Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj was very selective about
accepting invitations for food. He believed that partaking of food
here and there could adversely affect the spiritual life of a devotee.
Once a devotee name Haren babu partook of prasada offered at the
festival held at Bhajan kutir at Navadvipa. For this Gaurakisora
stopped communicating with Haren for three days. On the fourth
day Gaurakisora explained that the prasada of the above festival had
been financed by a woman of questionable profession, a pumscari
(one who is moved by other men).
 WOW!!

Once, on the eve of Sanatana Gosvami's disappearance day, Srila

Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj decided to celebrate the occasion.
The devotee attending him asked who would provide them with the
materials for the celebration. Srila Gaurakisora Babaji Maharaj
replied: "Remember not to speak to anyone about it. We shall miss a
meal and continue around the clock chanting the holy name. This
could be the typical festival for those of us who have taken the vow of
poverty."
 #harernaamevakevalam

Narendra Kumar Sen, a resident of Agartala (Tripura), once

approached Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj to learn about Guru
pranali or Siddha pranali. Babaji Maharaj told him, "The Supreme Lord
cannot be realized through worldly knowledge. Only through the
chanting of the holy name can the true nature of the Lord be revealed.
As the Lord is revealed from the letters comprising the Nama, the
devotee gradually begins to understand his own nature and becomes
acquainted with seva.
 Nitya Nawadwipa

A young seeker wearing only a kaupina, once stayed with

Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj for some days. later he arranged,
through the agency of an employee of a female estate owner, to
obtain five kathas of land as a donation from the woman. When
Gaurakisora heard about this he was extremely annoyed:
"Navadvipa dhama is beyond this material world. How can a
worldly land owner dare to hold land here and even think he can
donate five kathas out of it?
A mere grain of sand of the transcendental Navadvipa is more
valuable than all the precious gems in this world put together.
Moreover, how advanced could this young kaupina clad
devotee be if he dares to collect so much land in lieu of his
bhajan merit?"
 Prasad is not Prasad if this is the case..

Once a devotee offered some sweets to Lord Gauranga and then took
the offering to Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj, urging him to partake
of it. Gaurakisora told the devotee, "Those who are non vegetarian,
those who commit adultery, or offer food to Lord Gauranga with a
particular motive, their offerings never reach Lord Gauranga and are
never sanctified as prasada."
 Living in toilet room!
Giribabu and his wife once ardently requested Gaurakisora Das Babaji
Maharaj to stay in their house at Navadvipa. Babaji Maharaj was moved
by their sincere devotion and finally agreed to oblige them on the
condition that he would live only in their toilet room where he would
perform Hari bhajan. Giribabu tried to persuade him to change his mind
but Gaurakisora remained firm. Giribabu reluctantly arranged to have
the toilet thorougly cleaned and Gaurakisora used it for Haribhajan. A
realized soul can practice Haribhajan anywhere in an unconcerned
manner, and wherever he resides, that place becomes Vaikuntha.
 Srila Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj never delivered discourses
openly, yet his spotless character drew everyone to him. Upon
meeting Gaurakisora Das Babaji Maharaj, even a staunch materialist
would become inclined to take up Haribhajan.

May hearing your glorious transcendental qualities and activities,

people like myself, completely materiastic, can become the dog of
yours baba.