VISHNUPRIYA DEVI (CONSORT OF LORD CAITANYA) – LIFE HISTORY!
(1) All manifestations of Vishnu tattva have three energies: Sri laxmi (her divine valuables), Bhu laxmi (the Goddess of Earth in which she representes fertility and patience), and Nila laxmi (the Goddess of pastimes).
(2) Lakshmipriya Devi, His forst consort is the sri-sakti of Mahaprabhu in his majestic Gaura-Narayan attitude; Vishnupriya is his bhu-sakti and Nabadwip Dham is his lila-sakti.
(3) Krishna’s Consort Satyabhama and her father Satrajit became Vishnupriya Devi and her father Sanatan Mishra in Gaura lila.
(4) Vishnupriya Devi’s grandfather : Durga Das Mishra. Some people believe that Durga Das was Vishnupriya’s father.
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(5) Vishnupriya Devi is the personification of transcendental knowledge.
(6) As per Chaitanya Charitamrita 1.16.25, Lord Caitanya married Vishnupriya Devi after the passing away of His first consort Srimati Lakshmipriya.
(7) Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was busy teaching his students for long period of time visiting to eastern Bengal. Lakshmipriya Devi found it impossible to support his absence. So, meditating on His lotus feet, she departed from this world.
(8) Then, as requested by Sachi matha, a Popular marriage match maker Kashinatha arranged Vi9shnupriya Devi for Sri Caitanya to marry.
(9) This match maker Kashinatha in Gaura Lila was nothing but the rebirth of the same ‘Kulaka’ who was sent by Satrajit to arrange the marriage between his daughter Satyabhama and Krishna in Krishna lila.
(10) Vishnupriya was known to Sachi matha and also blessed by her as both would visit ganges to take bath.
(11) The Lord Caitanya arrived for marriage at Sanatan Mishra’s house in a palanquin at dusk and Gaura and Vishnupriya’s wedding ceremony was performed according to both scriptural and popular traditions.
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(12) Vrindavan Das Thakur writes about the wedding:
“Some people of the pious women said, They remind me of Gauri and Shiva. Others said, It seems that they are Lakshmi and Narayan. Yet others said, No, they rather resemble Rati and Kamadeva. Some compared them to Indra and Sachi, and others to Rama and Sita. (Chaitanya Bhagavat 1.15.205-8)
(13) Next day, Vishnupriya joined her new husband on the palanquin and returned with him to his house. But, she had to wait for about 4 years to permanently settle in his house.
(14) During marriage, Vishnupriya’s age was just 8 or 9. She went to Mahaprabhu’s house at her age of 12 or 13 as per the custom those days (they may marry in childhood, but, the wife will go to husband’s house only after her age 12 or attending the age).
(15) But within an year after she came to husband’s house, Mahaprabhu took sanyasa and left for Katwa. She could live with him just for one year.
(16) When Sri VCaitanya took Sanyasa (Possibly in the year 1509), his age was 24 and Vishnupriya’s age was just 14.
(17) Lochan Das Thakur has described Vishnupriya’s terrible feelings of separation in the days that followed his departure in the Chaitanya Mangala:
“The earth splits from the sound of Vishnupriya’s crying: the birds and beasts, even the trees and stones shed tears when they heard it. Falling to the ground she would lament, crying out Why does my sinful life not end? In separation, her breath was like fire, drying her lips and her body trembled constantly. (Caitanya Mangala 2.14.15-6)
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HOW VISHNUPRIYA LIVED AFTER SRI CAITANYA TOOK SANYASA?
(18) Every morning, she would go for her bath in the Ganges with mother Sachi.
(19) After that, she spent the entire day inside the house, never allowing the moon or the sun to see her form.
(20) Not even the devotees were allowed to see anything more than her feet, nor would anyone ever hear her voice.
(21) Constantly shedding tears and eating only Mother Sachi’s remnants, she became pale and thin. (22) She was chanting the Holy name all day long in solitude before a portrait of Gauranga, serving it as though he were present in it and surrendering herself to his lotus feet.
(23) Narahari Chakravarti describes this in Bhakti-ratnakara:
“Every day Srinivas would come to see her. He observed her daily activities, which are beyond description. She had completely renounced sleep, and if ever she closed her eyes, it would be while lying on the bare ground. Her bodily luster, which had formerly glowed more brilliantly than gold, had become dull and she was as thin as the waning moon on its fourteenth day. She set aside grains of rice to count the Holy Names she chanted, and would cook only this rice and offer it to her Lord. Of this amount, she would only eat a small portion. No one understood how she could remain alive.”
(Bhakti ratnakara 4.47-51)
(24) It is said that Vishnupriya Devi was the first to establish worship of a murti of Gauranga. This deity is still present and worshiped in Nabadwip.
(25) It is believed that Vishnupriya left this world on a Falguni Purnima day.
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