I attended this year’s Gaura Purnima festival at our newly opened temple of Sri Sri Gaura Nitai In Darra, Brisbane, Queensland. Everyone was ecstatic, chanting and dancing to the holy names of Gaura Hari and Krsna.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born in Mayapur in the town of Nadia, just after sunset on the evening of the 23rd Phalgun, 1407 Advent of Sakabda answering to the 18th February, 1486 of the Christian era.
The moon was eclipsed at the time of His birth and people of Nadia were then engaged, as usual on such occasions, in bathing in the Bhagirathi with loud cheers of Haribol. His father Jagannath Misra was a poor Brahmin of the Vedic order, and His mother Sachi Devi was a model good woman, both descended from Brahmin stocks originally residing in Sylhet.
Mahaprabhu was a beautiful child and the ladies of the town came to see Him with presents. His mother’s father, Pandit Nilambar Chakravarti, a renowned astrologer, foretold that the child would be a great Personage in time ; and he therefore, gave Him the name Visvambhar.
The ladies of the neighbourhood styled Him Gaura Hari on account of His golden complexion, and His mother called Him Nimai on account of the Nima tree near which He was born.
Lord Chaitanya is the most magnanimous incarnation of the Lord freely bestowing love of Godhead to one and all.
Source: https://ramaiswami.com/gaura-purnima-7/
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