2021

Vaisnava
Calendar
Gaurābda 535
The 535th year in the era
beginning from the appearance of
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu (1486 AD)
By my gurudeva’s causeless
compassion and inspiration,
I am also making a slight endeavor to fulfil his innermost
desire by preaching the message of Gaurasundara
throughout the world. Any success I am achieving is only
due to his unique mercy, as I am an insignificant person
in all respects.

Ācārya Kesarī, His Life and Teachings

Introduction
 April
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3
Month of Viṣṇu Pañcamī
continues

4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Pāpamocani
Śrī Śrīvāsa Paṇdita Ekādaśī Break fast:
appearance Śrī Govinda Ghoṣa after sunrise - 9:34am
Appearance
Mahāprabhu Varāha Nagara
Śubha Vijay

11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Beginning of Pañcamī
Śālagrāma & Tulasī-jala dāna
Amāvasyā Śrī Keśava-vrata Śrī Rāmānujācārya,
(constant watering of Tulasī with
overhanging pot drip) Śrīmad Bhakti Hṛdaya
Vana Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Sun Enters Aries
appearance

18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Śrī Rāma-navamī
Appearance Break fast Kāmadā
of Śrī Rāmacandra
(Fast til noon then
after sunrise - 9:00am
Ekādaśī Break fast:
after sunrise - 9:30am
Ekādaśī preparations only)
Śrīla Bhakti Ballabha Tīrtha
Gosvāmī appearance

25 26 27 28 29 30
Pūrṇimā
Śrī Balarāma Rāsa-yātrā
Month of Madhusūdana
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Vasanta-rāsa
begins
Śrī Vaṁśivadana Gosvāmī,
Śrī Śyāmānanda Prabhu
appearance
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is a direct
manifestation of the Supreme Lord.
It is an ambrosial, overflowing ocean of supremely
sweet nectarean love (prema-rasa) for the original
Supreme Personality of Godhead (Svayaṁ Bhagavān)
Vrajendra-nandana Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the personification
of divine mellows. Rasika and bhāvuka devotees
absorbed in tasting the beauty of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes
always drown in this ocean.
Veṇu-gīta, Introduction
 May
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

30 31 1
Pañcamī Pañcamī
Month of Madhusūdana
Śrī Rāmānanda Rāya continues
disappearance Śrī Kṛṣṇadāsa Bābājī
Mahārāja
disappearance

2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Varūthinī
Śrīla Bhakti Ballabha Tīrtha Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura Break fast:
Śrīmad Bhakti Kumuda
Santa Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Śrī Abhirāma Ṭhākura
Gosvāmī Mahārāja disappearance Ekādaśī After Sunrise - 09:30
disappearance
appearance disappearance

9 10 11 12 13 14 Akṣaya Tritīyā
(Auspicious day to
start new projects)
Opening the doors of
15
Śrī Badrīnārāyaṇa
Amāvasyā Sun enters Taurus Śrī Keśava-vrata Ends
Candana-yātrā of (end of constant watering of Tulasī)
Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita Lord Jagannātha starts
(continues for 21 days)
appearance
80th Anniversary of Śrī Gaudīya
Vedānta Samiti's inauguration

16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Śrīmatī Sītā-devī
(consort of Lord Rāma)
Pañcamī appearance
Śrī Sankarācārya Jahnu saptamī
Appearance (Śrī Jāhnavā pūjā) Śrīmatī Jāhnavā-devī
Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Vilāsa (consort of Sri Nityānanda)
Gabhastanemi Mahārāja appearance
Disappearance Śrī Madhu Paṇḍita
disappearance

23 24 25 26 Pūrṇimā
Salila Vihāra
(Jagannāth līlā)
27 28 29
Śrī Nṛsiṁha-caturdaśī Śrī Rādhā-Ramaṇa Deva Ji, Month of Trivikrama
Mohinī Break fast: Appearance of Lord Śrī Mādhavendra Purī, begins Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta
Śrī Śrīnivāsa Ācārya
Ekādaśī After Sunrise - 09:20 Nṛsiṁhadeva appearance
Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī
Mahārāja began 1st
(fasting til dusk, then Śrī Parameśvarī Ṭhākura Śrī Bhakti Sāraṅga
Ekādaśī preparations only) disappearance Gosvāmī Mahārāja Western tour
Break fast: disappearance
After Sunrise - 09:25
The transcendental name
hare kr.s.n. a hare kr.s.n. a kr.s.n. a kr.s.n. a hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare
is the mahā-mantra, or supreme mantra, for
deliverance in Kali-yuga.
This is in accordance with Vaiṣṇava
scriptures such as the Vedas, Upaniṣads,
Purāṇas and Saṁhitās. Chanting this
sixteen word mahā-mantra is the primary
religious process of this age.
Śrī Harināma Mahā-mantra,
Chapter 1
 June
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5
Month of Trivikrama
continue

6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa
Aparā Amāvasyā
Ṭhākura Appearance
Ekādaśī
Break fast:
After Sunrise - 09:20

13 14 15 16 17 18 19
Pañcamī
Sun enters Gemini

20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Śrī Baladeva
Pāṇḍava Nirjala Pūrṇimā
Vidyābhūṣaṇa
disappearance Snāna-yātrā Month of Vāmana
Ekādaśī Break fast:
After Sunrise - 07:30
Ciḍā-dahī Mahotsava of
Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa
(bathing of Lord Jagannātha) begins
Śrīmatī (total fast)
Gaṅgāmātā Gosvāminī Gosvāmī at Pāṇihāṭī Śrī Mukunda Daṭṭa, Śrī Śyāmānanda Prabhu
appearance Śrī Śrīdhara Paṇḍita disappearance
disappearance
Gaṅgā-pūjā

27 28 29 30
Pañcamī
Śrī Vakreśvara Paṇḍita
appearance
After having freed oneself from all
anarthas or impediments to devotion
(by following the recommended process) and
having realised one’s eternal identity (svarūpa), one
then chants the holy name with love and spiritual
emotion (bhāva) – and tastes the nectar of the name
at every step.
Śrī Śikṣāṣṭaka,
Verse 1, comment
 July
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3
Month of Vāmana
continues

4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Amāvasyā
Śrī Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita Ekādaśī Pakṣa- Break fast: Śrī Gadādhara Paṇḍita,
disappearance (not suitable for fasting) vardhinī After Sunrise - 09:25 Śrīla Saccidānanda
Mahā-dvādaśī Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura
disappearance

11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Ratha-yātrā
(Chariot festival of Lord Herā Pañcamī celebration
Guṇḍicā-mārjana Jagannātha) Pañcamī (Śrī Lakṣmī-devī's victory) Sun enters Cancer
(cleaning of Guṇḍicā temple) Śrī Svarupa Dāmodara Śrī Vakreśvara Paṇḍita
Gosvāmī, Disappearance
Śrī Śivananda Sena
disappearance

18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Śayana
Śrī (Vyāsa)
Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Kamal Ekādaśī Break fast: Guru Pūrṇimā
Madhusūdana Lord Jagannātha's After Sunrise - 09:30 Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī
Gosvāmī Mahārāja return journey disappearance
disappearance (End of Ratha-yātrā festival) Cāturmāsya-vrata Begins
Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Vijñāna (vow of fasting from green
Bhāratī Gosvāmī Mahārāja leafy vegetables, and etc..)
appearance

25 26 27 28 29 30 31
Month of Śrīdhara Pañcamī
begins
Śrīla Gopāla
Śrīla Prabhodhānanda Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī
Sarasvatī Gosvāmī disappearance
disappearance
Fortunate living beings who give attention
to hearing from pure rasika devotees
of Vraja the transcendent narrations of the Supreme Lord’s pastimes, and
in whose hearts an excessive eagerness thus awakens to devotedly serve
Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the mood of the residents of Vraja, are qualified to practise
rāgānugā-bhakti.
Śrī Rādhā-kṛṣṇa-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā,
Foreword
 August
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Month of Śrīdhara
Kāmikā Break fast:
continues
Ekādaśī After Sunrise - 09:30
Śrīla Lokanātha Gosvāmī Śrīla Bhakti Kamal Govinda
disappearance Gosvāmī Mahārāja
disappearance

8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Amāvasyā
Śrīla Śrī Raghunandana Ṭhākura, Pañcamī
Bhakti Rakṣaka Śrīdhara Śrī Vamsidāsa Bābājī
Gosvāmī Mahārāja disappearance
disappearance

15 16 17 18 19 20 21
Sun enters Leo Pavitropana Break fast:
Ekādaśī After Sunrise - 09:35
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī,
Śrī Rādhā-Govinda
Śrīla Gaurīdāsa Paṇḍita,
Jhūlana-yātrā begins
Śrīla Govinda dāsa
(swing festival)
disappearance

22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Break fast:
Śrī Baladeva Pūrṇimā After Sunrise - 09:30
Appearance of Lord Balarāma
Month of Hṛśikeśa Pañcamī
fasting til noon - Ekādaśī preparations
begins
Jhūlana-yātrā ends Śrīla AC Bhaktivedānta
Rakṣā-bandhāna
2nd month of
Swāmī Prabhupāda's
Cāturmāsya begins departure for the USA
(fasting from yogurt, etc)

29 30 31
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī Break fast:
Appearance After Sunrise - 09:40
of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Nandotsava
(fasting til midnight, then
Śrīla AC Bhaktivedanta
taking Ekādaśī preparations til
Swāmī Prabhupāda's
after sunrise next day)
appearance festival
Braja-jana-mana-sukhakārī
braja-jana-mana-sukhakārī
rādhe śyām śyāmā śyām
Delight of the Vraja people—Rādhe! Śyāma! Śyāmā! Śyāma!

mor mukuṭa makarākṛta-kuṇḍala, gala vaijayantī-māla,

caraṇana nūpura rasāla rādhe śyām śyāmā śyām (1)
His crown of is of peacock feathers, His earrings are shark-shaped, around
His neck is a forest flower garland, and the bells on His feet resonate rasa—
Rādhe! Śyāma! Śyāmā! Śyāma!

sundara vadana kamala-dala locana, bākī cita-vana-hārī,

mohana-baṁśī-bihārī rādhe syām syāmā syām (2)
With His beautiful face, eyes like lotus petals and His crooked and enticing
posture, He frolics in forests and hearts, captivating all with His artistry in
flute playing—Rādhe! Śyāma! Śyāmā! Śyāma!

vṛndāvana mẽ dhenu carāve, gopī-jana manahārī

śrī govardhana-dhārī rādhe śyām śyāmā śyām (3)
In Vṛndāvana, He tends the cows, absconds with the minds of the cowherd
girls, and holds up Śrī Govardhana—Rādhe! Śyāma! Śyāmā! Śyāma!

rādhā-kṛṣṇa mili aba doū, gaura-rūpa avatārī

kīrtana dharma pracārī rādheśyām śyāmā śyām (4)
Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa now unite in one golden incarnation, preaching the religion
of devotional singing (kīrtana-dharma)—Rādhe! Śyāma! Śyāmā! Śyāma!

tum binā mere aur na koi, nāma-rūpa avatārī

caraṇana mẽ balihārī,
nārāyaṇa balihārī, rādhe śyām śyāmā śyām (5)
Without You, I have no other. You incarnate in the divine name and in divine
form. At Your feet rapture is found. This Nārāyaṇa delights there. Rādhe!
Śyāma! Śyāmā! Śyāma!
 September
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4
Month of Hṛśikeśa Annadā
continues
Ekādaśī Break fast:
After Sunrise - 09:40

5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Pañcamī
Amāvasyā Śrīmatī Sītā Ṭhākurāṇī
Śrīla Gour Govinda Svāmī
appearance (Śrī Advaita's consort)
appearance

12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Pārśva Break fast :

Śrī Lalitā Saptamī Śrī Rādhāṣṭamī

Ekādaśī After sunrise - 07:00
Śrī Vāmana Dvādaśī
Appearance of Appearance of Appearance of Lord
Sun enters Virgo Vāmanadeva
Śrī Lalitā-devī Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī
(no fasting) Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī
appearance

19 20 21Pūrṇimā 22 23 24 25
Nāmācārya
Śrī Viśvarūpa-mahotsava
Śrīla Saccidānanda Month of Padmanābha
Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura Acceptance of sannyāsa by Śrī
Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura begins
appearance Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Vijñāna Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava
Bhāratī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Gosvāmī Mahārāja in 1940
disappearance & Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Svāmī
Mahārāja Prabhupada in 1959
3rd Month of Cāturmāsya-vrata
(fasting from milk etc)

26 27 28 29 30
Pañcamī Śrīla Bhakti Śrīrūpa Śrīla AC Bhaktivedānta
Siddhāntī Mahārāja Swāmī Prabhupada's arrival in
disappearance the USA, 1965
In Vraja, Śrī Kr. s.n. a
relishes the mellows of
transcendental love,
and in Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma He
distributes them. That devotee who
performs his devotional practices
aspiring for the transcendental
mellows of Vraja can easily attain
this vraja-prema by taking exclusive
shelter of Śrī Gaurasundara and His
dear associates in Śrī Navadvīpa-
dhāma, where offences
are not considered.
Śrī Navadvīpa-dhāma,
Introduction
 October
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

31 1 2
Indira
Month of Padmanābha Ekādaśī
continues

3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Break fast: Amāvasyā
After Sunrise - 09:30

10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Pañcamī
Śrī Ramacandra-Vijayotsava
Śrī Śrīmad Śrī Madhvācārya Pāśānkusā
Bhakti Pramoda appearance Ekādaśī
Purī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Śrīla Bhakti Svarūpa Dāmodara
appearance Gosvāmī Mahārāja
disappearance

17 18 19 20 PūrṇimāŪrjā-vrata,
Kārtika-vrata,
21 22 23
Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa, Dāmodara-vrata
Śrīla Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa, & Niyama-sevā begins
Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Śrī Kṛṣṇa Saradiya rāsa-yātrā
Gosvāmīs Sun Enters Libra Month of Dāmodara
Śrī Murāri Gupta, begins
disappearance Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Prajñāna
Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Break fast: disappearance
After Sunrise - 09:20 4th Month of
Cāturmāsya-vrata begins
(fasting from mustard & sesame seeds, etc)

24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Śrīla Narottama dāsa Śrīla Vīracandra Prabhu,
Ṭhākura, Pañcamī Bahulāṣṭamī
(Appearance of Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Rakṣaka
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktikuśala Śrī Rādhā-kuṇḍa) Śrīdhara Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Narasiṁha Mahārāja appearance
disappearance
Those who accept Śrī Caitanya
Mahāprabhu’s philosophy
of acintya-bhedābheda-tattva and
engage in sādhana-bhajana under His
guidance, who are cultivating devotional
service according to the conceptions
of Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, Śrī Advaita
Ācārya, Śrī Svarūpa Dāmodara, Rāya
Rāmānanda and the Six Goswāmīs in the
method of bhajana prescribed by them;
and those who accept the hare kṛṣṇa
mahā-mantra, are all included within the
family of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
Five Essential Essays,
Introduction
 November
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5 6
Ramā Govardhana-Pūjā, Śrī Vasudeva Ghoṣa,
Ekādaśī Break fast:
Amāvasyā Go-pūjā, Go-kṛda disappearance
After Sunrise - 08:30 Dīpa-dāna, Dīpanvita (worship of Govardhana Hill,
Yama-dvitīyā
Month of Dāmodara worship & decorating of cows)
continues (Festival of lights) (The blessing of Yamarāja to his sister, Śrī
Śrī Rasikānanda, Yamunā-devī, that if a brother and sister
each take bath in the Yamunā river on this
Śrīmad Bhakti Kusum day, they will not go to the abode of Yama
after death.)
Sraman Gosvāmī Mahārāja
appearance

7 8 9 Pañcamī
10 11 12 13
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta
Vāmana Gosvāmī Gopāṣṭamī, Goṣṭhāṣṭamī
Śrīla AC Bhaktivedānta Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktiśrīrūpa
Mahārāja, Swāmī Prabhupāda Siddhānti Mahārāja Śrī Gadādhara dāsa Gosvāmī,
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta disappearance appearance Śrī Dhanañjaya Paṇḍita,
Trivikrama Śrī Śrīnivāsa Ācārya
Gosvāmī Mahārāja disappearance
disappearance

14 15 Utthāna
Ekādaśī
16 17 18 19 Pūrṇimā 20
Śrī Kṛṣṇa Rāsa-yātrā
Bhīṣma-pañcaka begins Śrī Bhūgarbha Gosvāmī,
Sun Enters Scorpio Ending of Ūrjā-vrata,
Śrīla Gaura-kiśora dāsa Month of Keśava
End of Akasa Dipika Śrī Kāśīśvara Paṇḍita, Kārtika-vrata, Dāmodara- begins
Bābājī Mahārāja Break fast:
After Sunrise - 09:14 (offering a lamp to the sky) Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Pramoda vrata Niyama-sevā &
disappearance
Purī Gosvāmī Mahārāja Cāturmāsya Kātyāyanī-vrata
Śrīmad Bhakti Dayita disappearance Śrī Nimbāditya begins
Mādhava Gosvāmi Mahārāja
appearance
appearance

21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Pañcamī

28 29 30
Utpannā
Ekādaśī
(Śrī Vṛndāvana)

Śrīla Narahari Sarakāra

Ṭhākura
disappearance
Śrī Rādhā is mahābhāva-
cintāmani-svarūpa
She is the embodiment of
mahābhāva and is just like a
wish fulfilling spiritual jewel. As a
cintāmaṇi fulfills all of one’s desires,
so Śrī Rādhā fulfills all of the desires
of Vrajendra-nandana Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who
is the hero of unlimited universes
and the crest-jewel of those who
taste ecstatic devotional mellows.
Śrī Rāya Rāmānda Saṁvāda,
Rādhā-tattva
 December
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4
Amāvasyā
Break fast:
After Surise - 09:40 Śrī Sāraṅga Ṭhākura
Month of Keśava disappearance
continues
Śrī Kāliyā Kṛṣṇadāsa
disappearance

5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Odana Ṣaṣṭi
Śrīla Bhakti Svarūpa
Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti Pañcamī Dāmodara Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti
Jīvana Janārdana Gosvāmī Mahārāja Jīvana Janārdana
Gosvāmī Mahārāja appearance Gosvāmī Mahārāja
disappearance appearance

12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Mokṣadā
Ekādaśī
Śrī Śrīmad Advent of Break fast: Sun Enters Sagittarius
Bhakti Kamala Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā 8:00 - 10:00
Madhusūdana when Śrī Kṛṣṇa spoke
Gosvāmī Mahārāja Gītā to Arjuna
appearance

19 20 21 22 23 24 25
Jagad-guru Śrī Śrīmad
Pūrṇimā Month of Nārāyaṇa
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Pañcamī
begins
Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Kātyāyanī-vrata ends
disappearance

26 27 28 29 30 31
Śrīla Bhaktivedānta
Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja Saphala
appearance Ekādaśī Break fast:
06:30 - 07:30
Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta
Śrī Devānanda Paṇḍita Śrī Bhakti BhŪdeva ŚrautĪ
Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja
disappearance Gosvāmī Mahārāja
disappearance
appearance
Bhakti, as the essential
function of the internal
potency, is always present within the
hearts of the gopīs. In particular, Śrīmatī Rādhikā
is the personification of the svarūpa-śakti and,
consequently, the personification of bhakti.
Siksastakam,
Verse 1, comment
 January
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

30 31 1
Śrī Maheśa Paṇḍita,
Śrī Uddhāraṇa Daṭṭa
Month of Nārāyaṇa
Ṭhākura
continues
disappearance

2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Amāvasyā Śrī Locana dāsa Ṭhākura Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, Pañcamī
appearance Śrī Jagadīśa Paṇḍita
disappearance

9 10 11 12 13 14 Makara-saṅkrānti
15
(Sun enters Capricorn)
Putradā Gaṇgā Sagara Snāna-Melā Śrīmad Bhakti Kumuda
Ekādaśī (bathing in Gaṇgā) Śanta Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Śrī Jagadīśa Paṇḍita disappearance
appearance

Break fast:
After Sunrise - 10:00

16 17 18 19 20 21 22
Śrīla
Pūrnimā Month of Mādhava Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī
begins appearance
Śrī Kṛṣṇa
Puṣyā Abhiṣeka Śrī Rāmacandra Kavirāja
disappearance

23 24 25 26 27 28 29
Śrī Narahari Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta
Sevāvigraha Trivikrama Mahārāja
Ṣaṭ-tilā
appearance
disappearance
Śrī Bhakti Vaibhava
Śrī Jayadeva Gosvāmī
disappearance
Śrī Locana dasa Ṭhākura Ekādaśī
disappearance Break fast:
Purī Gosvāmī After Sunrise - 10:00
Mahārāja
appearance
I am bound to serve
Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Svāmi Mahārāja
(in all the ways he personally requested of me), because he is not
only my śikṣā-guru, he is my bosom friend.
My Śikṣā-guru and Priya-bandhu, Chapter 3
 February
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 Amāvasyā 2 3 4 5 Vasanta
Pañcamī
Sarasvatī-pūjā
Śrī Śrīmad Śrīmatī Viṣṇupriya Devī
Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Śrī Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi,
Gosvāmī Mahārāja Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī
appearance appearance
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī
Thākura disappearance

6 7 8 Śrī Advaita
9 10 11 12
Saptamī Break fast: Śrī Madhvācārya Śrī Rāmānujācārya
Mahā-viṣṇu-avatāra disappearance disappearance Bhaimi
After Sunrise - 10:00
Śrī Advaita Ācārya Ekādaśī
appearance
(fasting til noon, then
Ekādaśī preparations only)

13 14 Śrī 15 16 Pūrṇimā 17 18 19
Śrī Varāha Nityānanda Śrī Kṛsṇa Month of Govinda Śrī Śrīmad
Dvādaśī Trayodaśī Break fast: Madhura-utsava begins Bhakti Prajñāna Keśava
Appearance of Lord Appearance of After Sunrise - 10:00 Śrīmān Mahāprabhu's Śrīmad Bhakti Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Varāhadeva Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu sannyāsa-līlā Suhṛt Akiñcana Gosvāmī appearance
Break fast after worshiping (fasting til noon, then taking Śrīla Narottama dāsa Mahārāja
Lord Varāhadeva Ekādaśī preparations only) Ṭhākura disappearance
After Sunrise - 10:00 appearance

20 21 Pañcamī 22 23 24 25 26
Jagad-guru Śrī Śrīmad
Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti
Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Sāraṅga Gosvāmī
appearance Mahārāja
appearance
Śrīla Gour Govinda Svāmī
disappearance

27 28 Śrī Īśvara Purī

Vijaya Disappearance
Ekādaśī
Break fast:
After Sunrise - 09:50
The flirtatious hero of Vraja,
Śrī Kr.s.n. a, is akhila-rasāmrta-mūr.ti,
the embodiment of the nectar of all primary and
secondary spiritual tastes, or rasas. In this Vraja,
He performs His eternal pastimes with Śrīmatī
Rādhikā, who is the embodiment of mahābhāva
(the essence of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pleasure potency),
and His other associates. The most exalted of all
nectar-filled pastimes, namely, Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa-līlā,
and His numerous other pastimes, take place
here eternally. In this Vraja, every glance and
gesture is filled with rasa. Here, the original
enjoyer Śrī Govinda eternally enjoys nectar-filled
sports and pastimes with those gopīs who have
manifested from His own intrinsic form (svarūpa-
bhūtā-gopīs).
Śrī Vraja-maṇḍala Parikramā,
Part 1
 March
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 Śrīla
4 5
Jagannātha dāsa
Amāvasyā Bābājī,
Month of Govinda Śiva-rātri Śrī Rasikānanda Prabhu,
continues Ekādaśī preparations Break fast: Śrīmad Bhakti Dayita
only After Sunrise - 09:00 Mādhava Gosvāmī
Mahārāja
disappearance

6 7 8 9 10 11 Śrī
12
Navadvīpa-dhāma
Pañcamī Śrīmad Bhakti Vaibhava parikramā
Purī Gosvāmī Mahārāja
disappearance Saṅkalpa grāhāna
and/or start
(see schedule)
Taking Vows

13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Month of Visṇu
begins
Śrī Mādhavendra Purī
disappearance Festival of
Āmalakī Śrī Gaura-pūrṇimā Jagannātha Miśra
Ekādaśī Break fast:
After sunrise - 09:45
Appearance of
of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Break fast (Śrī Vṛndāvana):
Sun Enters Pisces Mahāprabhu After Sunrise - 09:38
(total fast until moonrise,
then Ekādaśī prasādam)

20 21 22 23 24 25 26
Pañcamī

27 28 29 30 31
Pāpamocani Break fast:
Ekādaśī After sunrise - 09:38
Before leaving this world, we should
try to serve the holy name:

hare kr.s.n. a hare kr.s.n. a

kr.s.n. a kr.s.n. a hare hare
hare rāma hare rāma
rāma rāma hare hare
By His mercy, Kṛṣṇa has invested all
His power and all His qualities in
these names. So, if you will chant
Harināma, you will be happy.
Evening Darśana, Ojai, California
June 16th, 2010