Sri Locana Dasa Thakura - ISKCON / Vaisnava Calendar Reminder Services

Sri Locana Dasa Thakura - ISKCON / Vaisnava Calendar Reminder Services: Srila Locana Dasa Thakura appeared in this world in 1520 A.D., thirty-four years after the appearance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Locana Dasa wrote a biography on Lord Caitanya, entitled Sri Caitanya Mangala, and he wrote many devotional songs. Sri Locana dasa Thakura took birth in a family of Rarhiya physicians who resided in the village of Kogram, within the Mahakumar (Katna) district of Barddhaman. His guru was Sri Narahari Sarkar Thakura. %u201CI am the servant of Thakura Sri Narahari, who is the master of my life. The desire of all my desires, I place at his lotus feet; which is that this vile creature (myself) might describe some-thing about the wonderful qualities of Sri Gaurasundara. In this expectation, he is my only refuge. [Caitanya-mangala, Satvakhan�da]. His father%u2019s name was Sri Kamalakara dasa and his mother%u2019s name, Sri Sadananda. He was the only son of his parents. He was raised in his maternal grandfather%u2019s home and his education was completed there. When he was only a little boy, he enjoyed the good fortune of meeting the devotees of Sri Gauranga.