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Pishima Gaura Nitai Templea TThe Deities in this temple are the Gaura Nitai Deities
that were worshiped by Murari Gupta, one of Lord Caitanya’s
close associates. Murari Gupta’s name is engraved on the pedestal.
Eventually there was no one to worship these Deities. An epidemic and malaria caused the village to be deserted. The temple of Gaura Nitai fell apart and the Deities were covered by the debri. Where the temple previously was situated became a cow field. Each day one of the cows would go stand where the temple used to be and would spray milk from its teats. The villager then came and dug at this spot and they found the Deities. A temple was constructed in Siuri for Gaura Nitai. Eventually Balarama Dasa Babaji, from Orissa, began to serve these Deities. Then Candrasasi Gosvamini, a young lady from the Mukhopadhyaya family, landlords of the Delagrama district of Nadia, came. She started cooking kshira for the Deities, after being initiated by Balarama Dasa Babaji. She had a dream in which Gaura Nitai told her to take Them to Vrindavana. Balarama Dasa Babaji and Candrasasi then went to Vrindavana with these Gauri Nitai Deities. Eventually Candrasasi became known as Pishi Ma. Pishi Ma Gosvamini served Sri Sri Gaura Nitai until she left her body, when she was 106. Since these Deities were worshiped by Pishima Mataji, that is how this temple got the name Pishima Gaura Nitai Temple. How To Get Here This temple looks like someone’s house from the outside. It is across from the Ban Khandi Mahadeva Temple, close to the intersection where you turn to go to Banke Bihari temple from Loi Bazaar. The entrance to this temple is a few doors down from the intersection. Temple Timings Darshan is 7.30 am to 12 noon and 4 to 8 pm.
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