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Weekend in Barsana

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Bishwambhar Dasji's Gaur Nitai are about 1 1/2 meters, perhaps a bit more. They are unique in Braj.  Just came back from a weekend in Barsana. Made a new friend, Bishwambhar Das , who has a nice Gaur-Nitai temple on the Govardhan Road. I was with a couple of Bangladeshi devotees that I met after arati in the Ladlii temple. They had recognized me from Birnagar where they had come a few months before for Bhaktivinoda Thakur's utsav. They are from Khulna, one is a disciple of Sachinandan Bhaktiprabha, who made a large number of devotees in that area. After they left me, I noticed that an effulgent-looking sadhu in his early 40s with nice Radha Kund Nityananda tilak in yellow-orange cloth was still sitting alone in the same place where he had been talking with a group of babas a few minutes earlier. Being attracted to him, I went and sat down with him and struck up a conversation. He told me a bit about his life, how he came to Braj when only eight years old an