{"id":7849,"date":"2025-12-20T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T13:36:14","slug":"lochana-dasa-thakura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/lochana-dasa-thakura\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura, the celebrated author of Sri <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/childhood-pastimes-chaitanya-mahaprabhu\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"Chaitanya Bala Lila: Childhood Pastimes of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu\">Chaitanya<\/a>-mangala, was a disciple of Sri Narahari Sarakar Thakura. In the eternal pastimes of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, there shines a bright star &#8211; Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura, a beloved devotee and empowered soul. Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura was blessed to have the association of Mahaprabhu during His manifest pastimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vishwa Guru Srila Prabhupada writes in the purport to the song Parama Karuna:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cParama koruna, pahu dui jana, nitai gauracandra. This is a song sung by Locana dasa Thakura, a great devotee of Lord Caitanya, almost contemporary. He wrote one book, Caitanya-mangala, depicting the activities of Lord Caitanya. That is a very famous book, Caitanya-mangala and he has composed many songs. Practically all Vaisnavas, they are transcendentally poetic. That is one of the 26 qualifications of the Vaisnava. So he says that &#8220;These two Lords,&#8221; nitai gauracandra, &#8220;Lord <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/lord-nityananda-pastimes\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Pastimes of Lord Nityananda\">Nityananda<\/a> and Lord Gauranga, or Lord Caitanya, They are very merciful incarnations.&#8221; Saba avatara-sara siromani. &#8220;They are the essence of all incarnations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Heart Captivated by Love<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lochana Dasa Thakura&#8217;s devotion was not ordinary; it was a heart captivated by the love of Lord Chaitanya. His compositions, like the soul-stirring <em>Sri Chaitanya Mangala<\/em>, reveal the depth of his love and understanding of the Lord&#8217;s glories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Treasure of Devotion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura&#8217;s life teaches us that true devotion is not about rituals, but about love and surrender. He was a well known poet and composed many devotional songs glorifying Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura, the celebrated author of Sri Chaitanya-mangala, was a disciple of Sri Narahari Sarakar Thakura. In the eternal pastimes of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, there shines a bright star &#8211; Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura, a beloved devotee and empowered soul. Sri Lochana Dasa Thakura was blessed to have the association of Mahaprabhu during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":7850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-our-acharyas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7853,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iskconbangalore.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}