Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur!

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur's Appearance Day (Yugal Kishore Pr):
* After Visvanath chakravarthy thakur and Baladev Vidyabhushana, the Vaisnava sampradaya was being covered down because of apasampradaya's.
* Even Ganga changed its course and covered
* Famous in this lifetime: his Schedule, his writings, Bishakcshen's episode, his finding of Mahaprabhu's birthplace.
* Most efficient magistrate
* When he was coming home, he was seeing goloka vrindavan. He had 10 children, but who were they
- Bhaktisiddanta Saraswati Thakur, a ray of Vishnu, who chanted 192 rounds for 10 years, and then began the Gaudiya math for spreading the glories of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
* He was an ideal grhastha.
* Temple president of Jagannath Puri, corrected so many things there.
* Bishakschen's episode is also famous, where Srila Bhaktivinoda thakur deposed this false imposter of mystic powers.
- He imprisoned Bishakschen, and that guy caste a bad spell on the whole family of Bhaktivinoda thakur
- All the family became sick, except SBSST. But Bhaktivinoda thakur didn't care, he gave the right judgement anyway.
- That guy's head was shaved, he lost all his power
* Bhaktivinoda Thakur is Kamala Manjari in the spiritual world.
* His schedule is just amazing. Write, chant, work, sleep and eat a little, completely efficient. Never complained that he did not have time, he made the best use of time available.
* Another episode, position of Vaisnava higher than Brahmana. SBSST established how Vaisnavism is greater than Brahmanas.
* Bhaktivinoda thakur wanted Bimala Prasada (SBSST) to take initiation from Gaur Kisora Das Babaji Maharaj. He told him that don't come home without taking initiation. How wonderful.
* He found out Mahaprabhu's birthplace - Yoga-pita
* He wrote so many wonderful songs, bhajans for the pleasure of the Lord.
- sarvasya tomar tumitho thakur.....
- keno hare krishna naam ....
- Gaura arati
- so many songs in ISKCON all come from him.