Nitaibadi- Ekchakra Garvabas

Raghav Pandit's Samadhi

Ekchakra Dham becomes a lonely place when Nityananda Prabhu left his own home. Almost everybody left the village after the death of Harai- Padmavati. Companions of Nitai chand started to visit different pilgrim sites. Somebody left home due to dispassion. The only name found as a relative of Nityananda prabhu is Madhav Bandyopadhyay. He helped Jahnava Ishwari and her family to visit the holy birthplace and pastime places of Nityananda Prabhu in Ekchakra Dham.

Mother Jahnava felt sorry seeing this bad condition of holy birthplace and started to move towards Vrindavan. Raghav Pandit who lived in the cave of Govardhan, came to see the lotus feet of Jahnavi mother. Considering him the right person, mother Jahnavi ordered Raghav pandit to renovate the holy birth place of Nityananda. Nitai chand also ordered the same in the dream of Raghav pandit. To execute the order as well as to get transcendental happiness, Raghav pandit arrived Ekchakradham with his two companions named Sri Krishna Das of Chiriyakunja and Sri Jagadananda Das.

Upon arrival he saw that Ekchakradham had become Bijan Kanan. There was a village named Khalatkar on the other side of Yamuna River.

Here Raghav Pandit met Sri Madhav Bandyopadhyay who was a relative of Nityananda prabhu. He said to Raghav pandit that he has come very late there because his life reached to almost at an end. Saying this he surrendered the family demigod of Harai Pandit Sri Radha Rasikraj jiu and Ananta Saligram Shila to Raghav pandit. After sometime Madhav left his gross body. Raghav pandit started worshipping the new deity of Gour- Nitai and started to worship in new temple. The old transcendental three folded form of Sri Krishna along with Srimati Radharani and Nityananda along with Gour Sundar were being worshipped there. His Lord Nrisingha Saligram Shila was being worshipped from that time. He conserved the birth place of Nityananda by building a memory temple on the holy birth place. Gradually a small temple had been built there. Today also we can see this memory pillar as a memory of Raghav Pandit.

The above said two personalities Sri Jagadananda Das and Krishna Das had helped a much in this novel activity. Raghav Pandit saved the existence of the birth place of Nityananda prabhu as well as Harai pandit bhavan and immensely helped us doing this novel cause.

Sri Raghav Pandit lived in holy Ekchakra Dham up to his death and surrendered the worship work of Nityananda to his beloved servant Jagadananda before leaving his body. He had been buried behind the memory temple of Sri Nityananda. After that all the great Mahanta’s were buried next to him. The largest burial temple seen is of Raghav pandit among the all.