 Siddha
Bakula
Siddha
Bakula
Siddha Bakula is
located behind Kashi Mishra house.
Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu personally arranged for Srila Haridasa
Thakura to reside at this place. Siddha Bakula is
the bhajana
kutir of Haridasa Thakura,
the place where he chanted 3,00,000 names of Krishna
daily.
 Mahaprabhu with
Haridasa Thakura
Mahaprabhu with
Haridasa Thakura
 Deity of Srila
Haridasa Thakura
Deity of Srila
Haridasa Thakura requested 
Haridasa, "Remain
here and chant the 
Hare Krishna
maha-mantra. I shall personally come here to meet you daily.
Remain here peacefully, and look at the 
cakra on top of
Lord Jagannath's temple and offer obeisances. As far as your
Prasadam, I shall
arrange to have that sent here."
 Haridasa Thakura Chanting under
tree
Haridasa Thakura Chanting under
tree
In order to provide shade for 
Thakur Haridasa,
Sri
Chaitanya planted a used tooth stick of Lord 
Jagannath. All of a
sudden it grew up and appeared as a great shade tree. 
Rupa Gosvami
recited 
Lalitha Madhava and
Vidagdha
Madhava under this tree before 
Sri Gauranga and
his followers. During his stay 
Sanatana Gosvami
lived with 
Haridasa Thukura
here. 
Haridasa
Thakur left his body here and Lord 
Chaitanya danced in
ecstasy here.
 Hollow trunk of the Siddha
Bakul tree
Hollow trunk of the Siddha
Bakul tree
In course of time, the King of 
Orissa ordered his
officers to cut down the tree here in order to construct Lord
Jagannatha's 
Ratha yatra cart.
Big amount of wood is needed, since the carts are about 13 m high
and each year new ones are constructed. They come to cut this tree
but 
Srila
Jagannatha Gosvami objected, informing them that the tree
had been planted by 
Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu for giving shade to 
Haridasa Thakura.
But they refused and decided to cut this tree in the next day.
Overnight, the tree becomes hollow. The trunk remained standing,
but its insides were empty. The next morning when the royal
officers came they found the tree hollow and returned without
cutting it.
 Stones tie on
branchs of Siddha Bakula
Stones tie on
branchs of Siddha Bakula
The tree was not ordinary tree, having been used as a toothbrush
for Lord 
Jagannatha, and
then planted in the ground by Mahaprabhu’s own hand, and acting as
shelter for 
Nama Acharya Srila
Haridasa Thakura. The Tree had attained perfection,
Siddha,
and from that day on was known as the 
Siddha Bakula by
all the local people.
People tie stones to this 
kalpa-taru
(wish-fulfilling tree) and make their wishes.