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[smaranam]

Sorry, GramesJi, there was an edit after you posted --- I meant to say Radha-GokuLAnanda not Radha-Gopinath. How could I have missed that considering, that MahAprabhU (Chaitanya) 's personal pUjya (worshippable) Govardhan Shila is on Radha-GokuLAnanda's altar today.

(This is for those who do not know the story -- Mahaprabhu used to wear this Shila around His neck and when he cried pools of tears "Ha Krishna, ha krishno " the tears drenched the shila . He later gave the Shila to one of the followers (I thought that was the renounced young Raghunath Das Goswami) when He was in Puri.. (many followers got some token or symbol of love when they had to seperate from him on his order.).

So, might as well get this straight

Archa-Vigraha (Deity form) <---------------> PujArI (devotee who worshiped the deity)
------------------------- <---------------> -----------------------------
1. RadhaRamaN (svayambhU - self-manifested) <------------------> GopAL Bhatta GoswAmi
2. Radha MadanMohan <-----------> Sanatan Goswami
3. Radha-Damodar <-------> Installed by Rup Goswami who handed them to Jiva Goswami (nephew-disciple) on KRshNa's order (Shrila PrabhupAd lived and wrote his Shrimad BhAgvatam commentary in a room in this temple.)
4. Radha-GokuLAnanda <-----------> Vishwanath Chakravarti Thakur
5. Radha-Vinod <--------------> Loknath Swami (guru of Narottam)
6. Vijaya Govinda < --------------> Baldev VidyAbhUshaN
7. Radha (installed) Shyamsundar (self-manifest) <-----------> ShyAmAnand Prabhu


jay jay rAdhA-ramaNa hari bol, jai jai rAdhA-ramaNa hari bol ~
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