Sangam

In the southern portion of Māyāpur, on the bank of the Ganges near its junction with the Sarasvatī, is the grove called Īśodyāna. May that forest be the place of my eternal devotions.
(Sri Navadvipa Bhava-taranga)

Just as Isodyana, nondifferent to Radha-kunda, lies close to the bank of the Ganges, so Godruma lies close to the bank of the Sarasvati.
(Sri Navadvipa Bhava-taranga)

I long to take the Lord back to Māyāpur where, shining in the dress of a young boy with long curly hair and dhoti folded thrice, He performs pastimes with His young friends in Īśodyāna.
(Sri Navadvipa Bhava-taranga)

Throughout Mayapur are scattered countless forests, temples. courtyards, wide roadways, and houses of brahmanas. In the southeast, Isodyāna, the garden of the Lord, rests on the bank of the incessantly flowing Sarasvati River. Why should the rascals of Kali-yuga, who are bound tight by material illusion, have the privilege to see these spiritual treasures? Māyā hides the dhama with the erosion caused by the Ganges, Yamuna, and Sarasvati and thus material eyes can see only a shadow of the real Mayapur. By the mercy of Sri Nityananda, the holder of all spiritual powers, may that Mayapur be revealed to my eyes and beheld with proper reverence. O Nityananda, please bless this worthless fool with a vision of the household pastimes Gauranga performed here.
(Sri Navadvipa Bhava-taranga)

Flowing in various places of Navadvipa are all auspicious rivers such as the Ganges, Yamuna, Godavari, Sarasvati, Narmada, Sindhu, Kaveri, Tamraparni, Payasvini, Krtamala, Bhama, Gomati, and Drsadvati. Navadvipa is always surrounded by these holy rivers. O Parvati, present within this eternal Navadvipa‑dhama are Ayodhya, Mathura, Maya (Haridvara), Kasi, Kanci, Avanti (Ujjain), Dvaraka, Kuruksetra, Puskara, and Naimisaranya. The four streams ofthe Ganges – Bhagirathi, Alakananda, Mandakini and Bhogavati – enclose the thirty-two mile circumference of Navadvipa. All the holy places in the heavenly, earthly, and lower planets are present in Navadvipa.
(Sri Navadvipa Pramana Khanda – chapter 4)

Triveṇī

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu selected His residence beside the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamunā, a place called Triveṇī. The two brothers—Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrī Vallabha—selected their residence near the Lord’s.
(CC Madhya 19.60)

Once upon a time the great saint Nārada, after visiting Lord Nārāyaṇa in the Vaikuṇṭhas, went to Prayāga to bathe at the confluence of three rivers—the Ganges, Yamunā and Sarasvatī.
PURPORT
The great saint Nārada is so liberated that he can go to the Vaikuṇṭha planets to see Nārāyaṇa and then immediately come to this planet in the material world and go to Prayāga to bathe in the confluence of three rivers. The word tri-veṇī refers to a confluence of three rivers….
(CC Madhya 24.230)

Junior Haridāsa had conclusively decided to attain shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Thus he entered deep into the water at Triveṇī, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā at Prayāga, and in this way gave up his life.
(CC Antya 2.147)

Then all the devotees, headed by Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, concluded that because Haridāsa had committed suicide at the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamunā, he must have ultimately attained shelter at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
PURPORT
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura remarks that after one adopts the renounced order and accepts the dress of either a sannyāsī or a bābājī, if he entertains the idea of sense gratification, especially in relationship with a woman, the only atonement is to commit suicide at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamunā. Only by such atonement can his sinful life be purified. If such a person is thus punished, it is possible for him to attain the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Without such punishment, however, the shelter of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is very difficult to regain.
(CC Antya 2.166)

In this village of Saptagrāma there is a place associated with the seven sages known throughout the world as Triveṇī-ghāṭa.
PURPORT
The confluence of the Ganges, Sarasvatī, and Yamunā is known as Triveṇī even today. The riverbed of the Yamunā is still found near Kāñcarāpāḍā. Some time ago this river used to flow into the Triveṇīsaṅgama. Reports that the Yamunā riverbed existed near Govaraḍāṅgā are still current.
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.444)

The seven sages previously performed austerities and attained the lotus feet of Govinda on the bank of the Ganges at this place. The three goddesses—Jāhnavī, Yamunā, and Sarasvatī merge together at this place. This place is renowned throughout the world as Triveṇī-ghāṭa. By taking darśana of this place, all one’s sins are destroyed. Nityānanda and His associates took bath at this ghāṭa in great ecstasy. Lord Nityānanda stayed on the bank of the Triveṇī at the house of the fortunate Uddhāraṇa Datta.
(Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa 5.445 – 5.449)