Paramhansa Shrila Gaur Kishore
Das Babaji Maharaj

Shrila Gaur Krishore Das Babaji Maharaj appeared in a merchant family in the early nineteenth century in a village called Bagjan, near Tepakhola on the bank of river Padma in Faridpur district of East Bengal. At the age of 29, he received spiritual initiation from Guru of Advaita inheritance. Spending about 30 years at different place in Vraja Mondal, immersed in blissful devotion, he came over to Sri Gaur Mandal in the year 1894 with the instruction of Shrila Jagannath Das Babaji Maharaj. He led a very austere and renounced life like Shrila Raghunatha das Goswami, Sometimes he stayed in ‘Sananda Sukhada Kunja' at Godrum and listened to Bhagvatam discourse from the lips of Thakur Bhakti Vinode. Instead of showing much interest in preaching, he enacted the bhajananandi lila (devotion in solitude).

Shrila Gaur Kishore Das Babaji entered his eternal pastime on the day of Utthana Ekadashi of the year 1915 (30 th Kartik, 1322 B.E.). Shrila Prabhupad, with his own hand, buried Shrila Babaji Maharaj in Kulia of Navadwip. But Shrila Babaji Maharaj desired to be buried in Godrum or Mayapur Dham. By his own will, when the Samadhi of Babaji was about to be abolished in the Ganges, at that time Shrila Prabhupad took out the above Samadhi and reestablished it in Chaitanya Math of Sridham Mayapur.