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{{Infobox Hindu leader |
| name = Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji
| image = Gaurakisora dasa Babaji ca.1900.jpg
| alt =
| caption =
| religion = [[Hinduism]]
| birth_name = Vamśi Dāsa
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1838|11|17|df=y}}<ref name=Gosai>[http://gosai.com/parampara/srila-gaura-kishora-babaji-maharaja Srila Gaura Kishora Babaji Maharaja], at Gosai (Sri Narasingha Chaitanya Ashram) website.</ref>
| birth_place = Vagyana town, [[Faridpur District]], [[Bengal]], [[British Raj]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1915|11|17|1838|11|17}}<ref name=Gosai/>
| death_place = [[Mayapur]], [[Nabadwip|Nabadwip District]], [[Bengal]], [[British Raj]]
| guru = [[Jagannatha Dasa Babaji]]
| honors = Acharya;{{clarify| date=April 2015}} propagator of [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism]]
| known_for = being considered a Gaudiya Vaishnava saint
}}

'''Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji''' ({{IAST3|Gaura-kiśora dāsa Bābājī}}; 1838–1915) is a well-known [[acharya]] from the [[Gaudiya Vaishnavism|Gaudiya Vaishnava]] tradition of [[Hinduism]], and is regarded as a ''[[Mahatma]]'' or [[saint]] by followers of his lineage. During his lifetime Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji became famous for his teachings on the process of [[Bhakti Yoga]] and for his unorthodox ''[[avadhuta]]'' like behaviour as a [[sadhu]], or babaji in [[Vrindavan]].

He was born on 17 November 1838<ref name=Gosai/> in a simple mercantile family in the village of Vagyana, near to [[Tepakhola]] in the district of [[Faridpur District|Faridpur]], part of modern-day [[Bangladesh]]. After the death of his wife when he was thirty years old, he accepted the life of a Babaji in the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition under the tutelage of [[Jagannatha Dasa Babaji]], after meeting the latter's disciple, Bhagavat Dasa Babaji. He became a [[mendicant]], staying in the holy cities of Vrindavan and [[Navadwip]], deeply absorbed in singing and [[japa|chanting]] the sacred names of [[Radha]] and [[Krishna]] ([[Bhajan]]).

In the early 1900s, [[Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura]] acknowledged that he took initiation from Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji and given the name 'Varsabhanavi devi daitya dasa'. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvata would later take an unorthodox form of initiation into the [[sannyasa]] order, in which "he simply sat down before a picture of Gaura Kisora dasa Babaji and invested that order upon himself."<ref name=Sardella>{{cite book|title=Modern Hindu Personalism: The History, Life and Thought of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati|year=2013|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-986590-1| author=Ferdinando Sardella| pages=77, 80, 90}}</ref> This is considered by some a contested topic.<ref name=McDaniel>{{cite book|title=The Madness of the Saints: Ecstatic Religion in Bengal|year=1989|publisher=University of Chicago Press|location=Chicago|isbn=0-226-55723-5| author=June McDaniel| pages=319–20}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Vaishnavism}}
*[[Chaitanya Mahaprabhu]]
*[[Nityananda]]
*[[Six Goswamis of Vrindavan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061009193525/http://www.salagram.net/parishad9.htm Gaura Kishora das Babaji Maharaj: Biography on salagram.net]
* [http://www.gosai.com/chaitanya/saranagati/html/guardians/gaura-kisora-bio.html Gaurakisora das Babaji: Biography by gosai.com]
* [http://www.purebhakti.com/teachers/bhakti-yoga-masters/771-srila-gaurakisora-dasa-babaji-maharaja.html Srila Gaurakisora Dasa Babaji Maharaja: Biography on purebhakti.com]
{{Modern Gaudiya Vaishnavas}}

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[[Category:People from Faridpur District]]
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