HH Tamal Krishna Goswami Passes Away in Mayapur

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TAMAL KRISHNA GOSWAMI PASSES AWAY IN MAYAPURA ON MARCH 15

 

Mayapura, India¾At approximately 7 a.m. local time, His Holiness TamalKrishna

Goswami left his body after sustaining injuries in a car accident.He was

traveling in a taxi with two devotees, bound for the Calcutta airportafter

leaving Mayapura at 4:15 in the morning.

 

Vrindavanesvari Dasi of Auckland, New Zealand, the wife of Kalasamvara Dasaalso

passed on. She was born on this date, March 15, in 1961. KalasamvaraPrabhu was

injured, but not severely. The status of the taxi driver is notyet known.

 

The taxi had driven approximately halfway to Calcutta before the

accidentoccurred. It was reported that the driver ran into a tree while trying

toavoid a truck on the road. Tamal Krishna Goswami, Vrindavanesvari dasi,

andKalasamvara were taken to the Anulia Hospital in Ranaghat.

 

Announcements were made at the Mayapura temple shortly after the accident,and

several carloads of sannyasis and godbrothers rushed to the hospital. Atthe

temple it was initially reported that Tamal Krishna Goswami and otherdevotees

were unconscious from the accident. Tamal Krishna Maharaja's andVrindavanesvari

Dasi's passing on was announced at approximately 7 a.m.

 

The accident occurred at Phuliya, near Shantipura, about sixty kilometersfrom

Mayapura. This very sacred place is mentioned several times in

theCaitanya-caritamrita in connection with the pastimes of Srila

HaridasaThakura. Phuliya is the place where Haridasa Thakur lived in a cave

andchanted 300,000 names of Krishna daily. There Haridasa also resisted

thetemptation by Maya, and this is also where he was beaten in

twenty-twomarketplaces for his devotion to the holy name.

 

All seminars and courses in Mayapura have been cancelled for the day.

Thedevotees will be holding kirtanas and glorifying Tamal Krishna Maharaja

inspecial meetings throughout the day. Speakers have noted that today is

theanniversary of the disappearance of Jagannatha Dasa Babaji Maharaja

andRasikananda Prabhu.

 

During a mid-day session of remembrances by senior devotees, Kesava

BharatiPrabhu read from Tamal Krishna Goswami's will, which had been forwarded

byphone from Dallas, Texas. In the will, Maharaja had stated that he wantedhis

body to be placed in samadhi at Govardhana; but he specified onealternative,

namely, that if he were to pass away in Mayapura, then his bodyshould be placed

in samadhi in Mayapura.

 

"Tamal Krishna Maharaja was a great pioneer," said GBC Chairman GiridhariSwami,

a close friend of Tamal Krishna Goswami's. "He led the society andthe preaching

for Srila Prabhupada. He served on the first GBC body. He wasempowered to

purchase the first land for Mayapura, he infused energy intothe book

distribution in America through the Radha-Damodara party, and hewas the first

to go to China."

 

"Maharaja had not been to the Mayapura annual meetings for several yearsbecause

he had taken a leave of absence from the GBC to complete hisdoctorate work,"

Kesava Bharati Prabhu said. "Every evening after themeetings this year, a large

group of devotees, including many sannyasigodbrothers such as Niranjana Swami,

Radhanath Swami, Sivarama Swami, B.B.Govinda Swami and Jayadvaita Swami, packed

into his rooms and chantedtogether for a couple of hours. Tamal Krishna Goswami

was absorbed in a moodof relishing the chanting in the dhama. Just as he was

leaving this morning,he spoke to me again about this chanting. He said that

kirtana is sowonderful; it is the way to purify our hearts and solve many

problems."

 

Tamal Krishna Goswami was completing his doctorate work at CambridgeUniversity.

According to Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu, Maharaja was completingthe last chapter

of his Ph.D. thesis, which is about Srila Prabhupada. Hewas serving as the

Governing Body Commissioner for Taiwan, China, thePhilippines, Fiji, Texas,

Mayapura and Calcutta. He was the author ofseveral books on Krishna

consciousness. He was 55 years old.

 

"A prominent limb of Srila Prabhupada's legacy has left the world,"

saidRadhanath Swami. "The list of Tamal Krishna Goswami's accomplishments is

sovast; he was empowered by Srila Prabhupada to accomplish many

difficult,difficult tasks."

 

 

 

Submitted by Anuttama DasaISKCON Communications Minister

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hello list,

 

Does anyone have the Birth details of HH Tamal Krsna Goswami Maharaj?

 

Maharaj passed away at approx. 5:15 am local time in Phuliya (Near

Santipur) and not 7 am as reported earlier. The journey began at 4:15

am in Mayapur.

 

Justin

 

 

gjlist, "Nicholas" <jyotish108@h...> wrote:

> TAMAL KRISHNA GOSWAMI PASSES AWAY IN MAYAPURA ON MARCH 15

>

> Mayapura, India¾At approximately 7 a.m. local time, His Holiness

Tamal

> Krishna Goswami left his body after sustaining injuries in a car

accident.

> He was traveling in a taxi with two devotees, bound for the

Calcutta airport

> after leaving Mayapura at 4:15 in the morning.

>