Gour Nityananda (Khol-bhanga-danga)
Information – Gour Nityananda are with the devotees, accompanied by a broken Mridanga.
Information – Khol-bhanga-danga – Where the Sankirtan party of Mahaprabhu’s followers were forcibly prevented and assaulted by the then Mahomedan Governor Kazi Maulana Sirajuddin (commonly known as Chand Kazi) whose men broke away the Khols (musical instruments) of that party and hence the part of the locality gained this name,
(THE HARMONIST AS IT IS VOL.2 (VOL. XXVI, June 1928 – May 1929), Page 187-188)
Information – Hinduism had been greatly in abeyance at Nabadwip ever since its occupation by Bakhtiyar Khilji. It was the same in the time of Mahaprabhu under the regime of its military governor, Chand Kazi. In fact the Hindus of Nabadwip, did not venture to utter the Name of God for fear of the Muhammadans. But now by command of the Supreme Lord the kirtan of the Name of Hari began to be chanted in a loud key to the accompaniment of mridanga and cymbal in every house of Nabadwip. Hearing of this Chand Kazi proceeded to the house of one of the townspeople who lived close to the court-yard of Sribash at Sri Mayapur and as he was guilty of chanting the kirtan broke his mridanga and proclaimed his resolve to punish with great severity and with loss of caste any resident of the town who chanted kirtan in the manner taught by Sri Gaur Sundar. The spot where Chand Kazi broke the ‘khol’ of the citizen became famous from that time and came to be called by the name of ‘Khol-bhanga-danga‘ the mound where the khol was broken and still maintains its old name.
(THE HARMONIST AS IT IS VOL.1 (VOL. XXV, June 1927 – May 1928), Page 279)
It was at the age of 16 or 17 that He travelled to Gaya with a host of His students, and there took His spiritual initiation from Iswara Puri, a Vaishnava sanyasi and a disciple of the renowned Madhavendra Puri. Upon His return to Nadia, Nimai Pandit turned religious preacher, and His religious nature became so strongly represented that Advaita Prabhu, Srivasa and others, who had before the birth of Chaitanya already accepted the Vaishnava faith, were astonished at the change in the young Man. He was then no more a contending naiyaika, a wrangling smarta and a criticizing rhetorician. He swooned at the Name of Krishna, and behaved as an inspired man under the influence of His religious sentiment. It has been described by Murari Gupta, an eyewitness, that He showed His heavenly powers in the house of Srivasa Pandit in the presence of hundreds of His followers, who were mostly wellread scholars. It was at this time that He opened a nocturnal school of kirtan in the compound of Srivasa Pandit with His sincere followers. There He preached, there He sang, there He danced, and there He expressed all sorts of religious feelings.
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In the houses of His followers He showed miracles, taught the esoteric principles of bhakti, and sang His samkirtan with other bhaktas, or devotees. His followers of the town of Nadia commenced to sing the Holy Name of Hari in the streets and bazaars. This created a sensation and roused different feelings in different quarters. The bhaktas were highly pleased. The smarta, caste-conscious Brahmins, became jealous of Nimai Pandit’s success, and complained to Chand Kazi against the character of Chaitanya as un-Hindu. The Kazi came to Srivas Pandit’s house and broke a mridanga (drum used in samkirtan) there, and declared that unless Nimai Pandit ceased to make noise about His queer religion, he should be obliged to enforce Mohamedanism on Him and His followers.
(Teachings of Lord Chaitanya Prologue)
Śrīla Nityānanda Rāma is the plenary manifestation of the Lord, and I have been initiated by Him. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto His lotus feet.
(CC Adi 1.40)
That original Lord Kṛṣṇa appeared in Navadvīpa as Lord Caitanya, and Balarāma appeared with Him as Lord Nityānanda.
(CC Adi 5.6)