Ksira-cora Gopinatha

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Prabhupada, November 16, 1971, Delhi: […] So Madhavendra Puri was very old man at that time, and it is order of Gopalaji, so he started for Jagannatha Puri. On the way there is a Gopinatha temple in Orissa, on the border of Orissa and Bengal in the district of Dantarn, that is called Danta. So he stayed there overnight and he saw that the Gopala…, Gopinathaji was offered ksira (sweet rice), seven pots of ksira. So Madhavendra Puri thought within himself, “If I could taste a little ksira, then I would also make such ksira to offer my Gopala in Vrindavana.”

Then again he thought that “Oh, I am so stupid that before offering to the Deity I am thinking of eating it.” He thought himself to be very much culprit, and he immediately left the temple, “No, I shall not. I am committing offense.” It is an offense.

Therefore, when you bring bhoga for the Deity, it should be covered so that we greedy men may not see it and try to taste it. Kanistha-adhikaris, they sometimes do that. Sometimes they take away something before offering to the Deity. These are great offenses. So Madhavendra Puri thought it that he was a great offender; he should not live in this temple, he should go outside.

So he went outside, and underneath a tree he was chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, just to pass over the night, then proceed toward Jagannatha Puri. So at night the Deity, Gopinatha, was asking the pujari, the priest, that “I have kept one pot of ksira behind My back garment”, pitavastra, “So you take this pot of ksira, condensed milk, to Madhavendra Puri—he is sitting underneath a tree—and offer him.”

So the pujari wake up, and actually when he opened the door of the Deity room, he found that pot of ksira. So he could understand that, “This Madhavendra Puri is not an ordinary devotee, he is a great devotee; otherwise how the Lord has stolen this pot for him?” Since then, that Gopinatha is famous as Ksira-cora Gopinatha. Ksira-cora Gopinatha, the Gopinatha who stole the ksira for His devotee.
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