Prabhu Jagadbandhu

Bengal Vaishnava religious leader

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Sri Sri

Prabhu Jagadbandhu

Sundar

Personal life
Born| (1871-04-28)28 April 1871

Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency, British India

Died| 17 September 1921(1921-09-17) (aged 50)

Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India

Religious life
Religion| Hinduism
Founder of| Mahanam Sampradaya
Philosophy| Bhakti Yoga
Religious career

Prabhu Jagadbandhu was an Indian religious leader from Bengal.[1] He spent much of his life meditating and preaching at the Sri Angan ashram in modern India and Bangladesh. His teachings inspired the founding of a Krishnaite Hindu revival movement in the last decade of the 19th century[2] and later on Mahanam Sampradaya, a monastic organisation. His devotees equate him with and also believes that he is Krishna and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

## Life and teachings

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Prabhu Jagadbandhu was born on 28 April 1871 in Murshidabad, Bengal Presidency, British India, to the family of a Sanskrit scholar.[1] His birthday, on Sita Navami, is celebrated as Bandhu Navami. He was devout and always sung Kirtans to Krishna and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Prabhu Jagadbandu summarised his teachings:[3]

> Show kindness and compassion and do well to all people. Make a free gift of religion to all. Initiation in the hallowed name of Hari is the sure means of attaining salvation (i.e; deliverance from all agonies and sufferings). This is the secret of salvation. This is the secret of eternal good done to others.

> — Prabhu Jagadbandu

Prabhu Jagadbandu composed eight books on the worship of God through kirtan: Shrimatisangkirtan, Shrimansangkirtan, Bibidhasabgit (the first three were printed together under the title of Sangkirtan Padamrta), Shrisangkirtan, Padavali, Shrishriharikatha, Chandrapath, Trikal, and Uddharana.[1]

Prabhu Jagadbandu died on 17 September 1921 in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India near the Sri Angan ashram. His remains are worshipped through the sandalwood casket that preserves his holy body. All of his followers believes that he will someday come out from the sandalwood casket after hearing the Mahanam Mahakirtan.

Prabhu Jagatbandhu College in Howrah, West Bengal, India, is named after him.

## See also

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* Mahanambrata Brahmachari

## References

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1. ^ a b c Mandal 2012.
2. ^ Carney, Gerald T. (2020). "Baba Premananda Bharati: his trajectory into and through Bengal Vaiṣṇavism to the West". In Ferdinando Sardella; Lucian Wong (eds.). The Legacy of Vaiṣṇavism in Colonial Bengal. Routledge Hindu Studies Series. Milton, Oxon; New York: Routledge. pp. 140–141\. ISBN 978-1-138-56179-3.
3. ^ Collection by, Brahmachari Parimalbadhu Das. Bandhu Ved Bani [Veda quotes of Bandhu]. Kolkata, India: Sri Mahanambrata Cultural and Welfare Trust. p. 1.

## External links

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* Mandal, Paresh Chandra (2012). "Jagadbandhu". In Islam, Sirajul; Jamal, Ahmed A. (eds.). Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Second ed.). Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.
* Jagadbandhu in Bengali