The Madana Mohana Temple

Madana Mohana Mandir

Visited the Madana Mohana temple, founded by one of the famous six Goswami disciples (Sanatana Goswami) of the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition. The original temple was built in the early fifteen hundreds, but was desecrated by the Muslim Emperor, Aurangzeb in 1670. The original murti was taken to Karauli in Rajasthan for safety and a replica, considered non-different in potency from the original deity is worshipped in Vrindavan today.

Here is another picture of the temple I found, from 1789.

Madan Mohan and the river Yamuna 1789

This sadhu, or saintly mendicant, lives at the Madana Mohana temple and very kindly let me take this photo. There are so many simple gentlemen like him around who ask for nothing and seem to subsist on crumbs and mantras. He helps care for the samadhi, or tomb, of Sanantana Goswami which is right next to the Madana Mohana temple.

Simply saintly