Disappearance day
Disappearance of Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī
Dates follow the Māyāpur (India) reckoning, the base of most published Vaiṣṇava calendars. The tradition sets each day by the tithi present at local sunrise, so your own date may fall a day earlier or later — see the calendar for your city.
Raghunātha dāsa left a wealthy Bengali family to serve Caitanya at Purī, and after Caitanya's disappearance settled at Rādhā-kuṇḍa in , living on almost nothing and absorbed in prayer. His writings — the Stavāvalī, the Manaḥ-śikṣā — are short, severe, and entirely about longing. He is one of the six Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana.
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Sources
- Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Antya-līlā 6; Gauḍīya hagiographical traditionChart / explanatory tradition
A study reference, not a devotional instruction. Observance varies by community and is not detailed here.