Anupama

In the year 1436 sakabda, the youngest brother, Anupama,
died and went back home, back to Godhead. He went to

SRI ANUPAMA the abode in the spiritual sky where Sri Ramacandra is
situated. At Jagannatha Puri, Sri Rupa Gosvami informed
anupama-vallabha, sri-rupa, sanatana Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu of this incident. Vallabha was a
ei tina sakha vrksera pascime sarvottama great devotee of Lord Ramacandra; therefore he could not
seriously consider the worship of Radha-Govinda
"On the western side were the forty-third, forty-fourth and according to the instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
forty-fifth branches - Sri Sanatana, Sri Rupa and Sri Yet he directly accepted Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as an
Anupama. They were the best of all." [Cc. Adi 10.84] incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Ramacandra. In the Bhakti-ratnakara there is the
Sri Anupama was the father of Srila Jiva Gosvami and following statement: "Vallabha was given the name
youngest brother of Sri Sanatana and Sri Rupa Gosvami. Anupama by Sri Gaurasundara, but he was always
His former name was Vallabha, but after Lord Caitanya absorbed in the devotional service of Lord Ramacandra.
met him He gave him the name Anupama. Because of He did not anyone but Sri Ramacandra, but he knew that
working in the Mohammedan government, these three Caitanya Gosai was the same Lord Ramacandra."
brothers were given the title Mullik. Mullik means "lord."
The genealogical table of Vallabha Gosvami can be traced
back to the Twelfth Century sakabda, when a gentleman of
the name Sarvajna appeared in a very rich and opulent
brahmana family in the province of Karnata. He had two
sons named Aniruddhera Rupesvara and Harihara, who
were both bereft of their kingdom and were thus obliged to
reside in the highlands. The son of Rupesvara, who was
named Padmanabha, moved to a place in Bengal known
as Naihati on the bank of the Ganges. There he had five
sons, of whom the youngest, Mukunda, had a well
behaved son named Kumaradeva, who was the father of
Rupa, Sanatana and Vallabha. Kumaradeva lived in
Baklacandradvipa, which is in the district of Yasohara and
is now known as Phateyabad. Of his many sons, three took
to the path of Vaisnavism. Later Sri Vallabha and his elder
brothers Sri Rupa and Sanatana came from Candradvipa
to the village in the Maldah district of Bengal known as
Ramakeli. It is in this village that Srila Jiva Gosvami took
birth, accepting Vallabha as his father. Because of
engaging in the service of the Mohammedan government,
the three brothers received the title Mullik. When Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited the village of Ramakeli, He
met Vallabha there. Later, Sri Rupa Gosvami, after
meeting Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, resigned from
government service, and went to Vrndavana to meet Lord
Caitanya, Vallabha accompanied him. The meeting of
Rupa Gosvami and Vallabha with Caitanya Mahaprabhu
at Allahabad is described in the Madhya-lila, Chapter
Nineteen.
Actually, it is to be understood from the statement of
Sanatana Gosvami that Sri Rupa Gosvami and Vallabha
went to Vrndavana under the instruction of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu. First they went to Mathura, where they met
a gentlman named Subuddhi Raya who maintained
himself by selling dry fuel wood. He was very pleased to
meet Sri Rupa Gosvami and Anupama, and he showed
them the twelve forests of Vrndavana. Thus they lived in
Vrndavana for one month and then again went to search
for Sanatana Gosvami. Following the course of the
Ganges, they reached Allahabad, or Prayaga-tirtha, but
because Sanatana Gosvami had come there by a different
road, they did not meet him there, and when Sanatana
Gosvami came to Mathura he was informed of the visit of
Rupa Gosvami and Anupama by Subuddhi Raya. When
Rupa Gosvami and Anupama met Caitanya Mahaprabhu
at Benares, they heard about Sanatana Gosvami's travels
from Him, and thus they returned to Bengal, adjusted their
affairs with the state and, on the order of Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu, went to see the Lord at Jagannatha Puri.

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In the year 1436 sakabda, the youngest brother, Anupama,

died and went back home, back to Godhead. He went to

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