Gaura Nityananda

Information – “Gaura Nityananda” are the original Deities worshipped by Sri Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura. Sri Baladeva (White), Subhadri Devi (Yellow) and Shyamsundar Jiu (Blue).

Information – Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana’s appearance place is the very altar of bhakti, the bhakti-pīṭha or vyāsa-pīṭha. This is the Naimiṣa of Gauḍa. When the interest in serving the Śrī Gaura-Nityānanda deities worshipped by Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana disappeared, this place was also practically lost. By the grace of the yugācārya, this place and the worship here is being restored. A temple sanctum, a nāṭya-mandira temple room, and servant’s quarters will be constructed so that very soon the service of Śrī Gaura-Nityānanda in this place can be restored. Last Sunday, in the morning, Prabhupāda Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja laid the cornerstone for the temple in this place with his own hands amid the hari-dhvani cheers issuing from the mouths of countless assembled devotees.
(Nadiya Prakash, 22nd Phālguna, 1334, Tuesday)

Information – Upon discovering in a similarly lamentable state the sites connected with Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura and Śrī Saranga Murāri in Mamgachi, Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī undertook to restitute and rebuild them also. Considering Vṛndāvana dāsa’s monumental contribution to Vaiṣṇava literature and that even from the secular viewpoint he was the first great Bengali poet, hence the pioneer in establishing Bengali as a distinct literary medium, that his birthplace had been wholly abandoned and become covered by dense woodland demonstrated to Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī the extent to which Bengalis were ignorant and negligent of the tremendous input of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His devotees toward Bengal’s esteemed cultural life. He had the surroundings cleared and a temple built thereupon for Śrī Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura’s original Śrī Gaura-Nityānanda deities, whom he brought back from being served elsewhere.
(“Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Vaibhava” Volume Two by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami, Chapter ‘Dhama-Seva’, Page 375)