How Chitanya Mahaprabhu Organized KIrtan ?

The benefit of organized kirtan.

Chaitanya mahaprabhu organized four sankirtana parties

Each having two mridangas. After some cosideration the lord selected svarupa damodara as the leader of the first party, and five assistants were chosen to respond to his chanting. Damodara pandita, narayana, govinda datta, raghava pandita, and sri govinda nanda, advaita acharya was ordered to dance in this group.

A second party was formed having shrivasa thakura as the lead singer. Gagadasa, hari dasa, shriman, shubha nanda and

Shri rama pandita were the responsive singers and nityananda prabhu was selected to dance.

Mukunda become the chief singer in the third party the responsive singers were vasudeva, gopinatha, murari, shrikanta, and vallabha sena and haridasa thakura was chosen to dance.

In the forth group, govinda ghosh was the lead singer, and the younger haridasa, vishnudasa, raghava, madhava ghosh and vasudeva ghosh responded. While vakreshwara pandita danced.

Beside these four groups, there was a party from kulma-grama in which ramananda and satyaraja were selected to dance. There was also a party from santipura and advaita acharya’s son acyutananda become the dancer in addition there was a seventh group formed by the inhabitants of khanda, and narahari and raghunanda were the dancers.

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