Shreenathji Temple

At the Hanuman Ghat by the Ganges river, Shri Mahaprabhu Vallabhachrya stayed after he took sanyas, the highest order of renunciation. He live for one month on a stone completely silent without eating or drinking anything. There, Shri Mahaprabhuji wrote a work about true renunciation which cleared the doubts of many misled people who had taken an outer renunciation neglecting the true inner one. On the day of Rath Yatra, Shri Mahaprabhuji entered into the Ganges river up to his waist and while singing the glorious Gopi Gita, ascended to the divine abode in a stream of light before thousands of people. Everyone who considered him to be only a ordinary man, after seeing his divine departure realized his divinity.

Here, Shri Mahaprabhu Vallabhacharya stayed at the house of Purushttamdas and celebrated Lord Krishna’s appearance day. During the festivities, Krishna’s parents and friends all appeared. Everyond present had this divine vision and Shiva joined in the celebrations.

During those days the followers of the Mayavading school of thought were harrassing Shri Mahaprabhu Vallaaabhacharya. In order to silence them, he wrote a short work called patravalamam and put it up on the wall of the main Shiva temple in Benares and Shiva confirmed that, “Shandaracharya appeared to establish the false theory says is correct.”

Shri Mahaprabhuji stayed in Benares for many days. In the holy city he received his sacred thread and was later married.