This is a complete video of a bike ride from our temple in Chakra Tirtha to the temple of Sri Tota Gopinath showing important landmarks along the way. Reaching Tota Gopinath, you can have darshan of the beautiful place where Sri Gadadhar Pandit (the disguised incarnation of Srimati Radharani) used to live and give daily Srimad Bhagavatam classes. Unfortunately cameras are not allowed inside the temple so at least once in your llfetime, you will have to come here in Jagannath Puri to get the darshan of Sri Tota-Gopinath, the very beautiful Deity of Sri Krishna (sitting in a lotus position) that was manifested by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Himself and given to Sri Gadadhar Pandit. When Mahaprabhu ended His manifest pastimes in this world, He disappeared by entering into this same Deity of Sri Tota-Gopinath.
We arrived this morning at the Tota Gopnath Temple just after their mangal arati. The pujari gave us a special darshan of the lotus feet of Sri Tota-Gopinath, which are always covered by His cloth. This is of course not in the video. But at least in this video you can have a peeping darshan of the most beautiful Tota-Gopinath. :)
Thanks to Giridhari Prabhu for the bike ride. Singing the background kirtan "Vasatu Mano Mama Madana-Gopale" is Sripad Bhaktivedanta Sridhar Maharaji and Vakreswar Brahmacari.
That was cool. It's so far tho!
gaura 7 months ago