Alaranath, The Place of Display of Separation

Radhanath Swami

When Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was feeling the ecstasy of separation from Jagannath, he could come here every year and here the deity of Lord four-armed, Narayan, Lord Chaitanya came in the mood of Srimati Radharani, Lord Chaitanya would see Krishna himself, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in his supreme ecstasies of separation, he would lay on the stone and the stone would melt. And we can see the very impressions of his body, his hands, his head, his knees, his feet, his entire body melted the stone. How special is this place? In fact, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would come here every year for that fifteen days, feeling the immense separation of Jagannath until just before rath yatra and often times when the devotees would request things of Lord Chaitanya, which he did not desire to do, he would threaten to leave and go to Alarnath.