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Then at the age of seven, his grandfather sent him to study at Krishnagar College. The following quote comes from Thakura Bhaktivinoda’s Gitavali:
 
   “He who has failed to carefully worship the lotus feet of Sri Radhika, which are the abodes of all auspiciousness.

nirasya vighnan iha bhakti-ganga-
pravahanenoddhrita-sarvalokah
bhagiratho nitya-dhiyam padam kim
bhaved asau bhakti-vinoda-devah 6

   Like King Bhagiratha, he saved the entire world by destroying all impediments and allowing the Ganga of pure devotion to flow.

Principal Clint, Reverend Duff, George Thompson, and Keshab Chandra Sen were attracted by the young man’s mastery of the English language and literature.

In Calcutta in 1885, he established the Chaitanya-yantra printing press. Those unable to understand the transcendental purity of Mahaprabhu’s religion of love started numerous heretical sects or apasampradayas.

   In the months which followed, another rascal in Jajpur proclaimed himself to be the incarnation of Brahma, while someone else in Khurda said that he was a manifestation of Balaram.

   Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur preached that the rules of the Daiva-varnashrama dharma should always be followed.

Give up wife, sons, friends, wealth, followers, speculative knowledge, all materialistic actions.

Punishing Bishikishana for deception

   In Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur’s life we find that he personified the description of a Vaishnava as one who is more gentle than a rose, yet more terrible than the thunderbolt. Throughout your life you should never give anxiety to others.

Kedaranatha remained there for a few more days before continuing through Cuttack, Bhadrak, and Midnapor to Calcutta. The Muslim footman Golam Khan used to guard the treasury.

   He was engaged as Deputy Collector in the Barasat subdivision. Abandon both auspicious and inauspicious works. After the disappearance of Mahaprabhu and his associates, however, the path of pure devotion became covered with thorns until Bhaktivinoda Thakur appeared to write many books and to preach the pure doctrine of devotional service to Krishna.

He established the worship of Lord Gauranga and Sri mati Vishnupriya at Yogapitha. 

 
   In the mood of innovation, in 1896 he sent to universities around the world a book of slokas, Sri Gauranga-lila smarana which had a forty-seven page English introduction: "Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu: His Life and Precepts." This act rose from a keen desire to spread Lord Caitanya's teachings in the Western countries.
 
   Bhaktivinoda Thakura made three predictions concerning a person and a phenomena: "A personality will soon appear," wrote Bhaktivinoda Thakura, "and he will travel all over the world to spread the teachings of Lord Caitanya."
 
   His second prediction: "Very soon the chanting of 'Harinama sankirtana will be spread all over the world.

Later in the same year, he took Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati to Kashiyang, then in 1898 to Benares and Prayag. Songs full of devotion for the Lord and sacred sentiment like his are not the result of any worldly scholarship or creativity, but are self-manifested in the eternally perfect associate of the Lord.