Rajashekhara Dasa
From the book “Chaurasi-kosa Vraja Mandala Parikrama”:
This is the sitting place of Lord Nityananda, who toured Vraja Mandala some years before Lord Chaitanya arrived in the holy dhama. According to the Bhakti-ratnakara, Lord Nityananda was completely overcome by the transcendental mood and sentiments of a cowherd boy, and quite often exhibited the mood and behavior of Lord Balarama. Lord Nityananda behaved exactly like an avadhuta or holy madman as He wandered around Vraja in transcendental ecstasy. An avadhuta is a sadhu who has lost all mundane consciousness of living in the material world and is completely absorbed in spiritual consciousness.
After visiting many different holy places of Vraja, Lord Nityananda eventually arrived at Govardhana and began wandering around the sacred Hill in search of Krishna, repeatedly calling out, “Kanhaiya, Kanhaiya, where are You” while completely immersed in Balarama’s feelings of separation from His younger brother, Kanhaiya. Lord Nityananda was asking every Vrajavasi that He met if they had seen Kanhaiya. The Vrajavasis were bewildered by Nityananda’s behavior and were unable to answer. Lord Nityananda eventually found His way to this place and after sitting down, began crying uncontrollably at His failure to find His beloved Kanhaiya. According to the Bhakti-ratnakara, Lord Nityananda then went to Shringara Vata in Vrindavana and while sitting there He suddenly heard a celestial voice from the sky informing him that Kanhaiya had now appeared in Navadwipa. Hearing this voice, Lord Nityananda became filled with transcendental happiness and immediately got up and started the journey to Bengal.
