Glorifications

 
A few short excerpts of glorification of Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami are included here.

Śrīla Prabhupāda’s exalted godbrother Śrīla Akiñcana Kṛṣṇadāsa Bābājī Mahārāja said of Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami;

…he is a maha-bhagavata…”

and paid full daṇḍavats to him.
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The Āyurvedic doctor and mystic Nārāyaṇa Rāmānuja dāsa, from the Rāmānuja-sampradāya, said of Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami:

You will see, Krsna will either take him or he will become a great preacher, an acarya…”

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Vṛndāvana 1975 (by Swami BV Bhāgavata (Bhāgavata dāsa) : After Gour Govinda Swami took sannyāsa, many sannyāsīs and Governing Body Commissioners started complaining, “How has he taken sannyāsa? He’s a new man!” then Prabhupāda told them,

He is a devotee from his birth, you are new men!”

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The prominent astrologer from Orissa, Tīrthananda Dasa said of His Divine Grace:

He is from the eternal abode of the Lord, Vaikuntha-loka”

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The brāhmaṇa from Śrī Raṅgam Badri Nārāyaṇa dāsa said of His Divine Grace:

I could see immediately that he was a maha-bhagavata.”

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The Ācārya of Śrī Raṅgam, Śrī Lakṣman Rāmānuj Jeeyer, Śrīla Ācāryadeva, of the Śrī-sampradāya said of His Divine Grace:

He is a maha-bhagavata,”

and paid him full daṇḍavats. Also on another occasion, referring to Śrīla Gour Govinda Swami, he said,

…he is a saktyavesa-avatara, a spiritually effulgent personality…”

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