Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead(5) Ūti: the urge for creation, or initiative power, that is the cause of all inventions, according to the necessities of time, space and objects.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead(6) Manv-antara: the periods controlled by the Manus, who teach regulative principles for living beings who desire to achieve perfection in human life. The rules of Manu, as described in the Manu-saṁh…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead(7) Īśānukathā: scriptural information regarding the Personality of Godhead, His incarnations on earth and the activities of His devotees. Scriptures dealing with these subjects are essential for prog…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead(8) Nirodha: the winding up of all energies employed in creation. Such potencies are emanations from the Personality of Godhead who eternally lies in the Kāraṇa Ocean. The cosmic creations, manifested…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead(9) Mukti: liberation of the conditioned souls encaged by the gross and subtle coverings of body and mind. When freed from all material affection, the soul, giving up the gross and subtle material bod…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead(10) Āśraya: the Transcendence, the summum bonum, from whom everything emanates, upon whom everything rests, and in whom everything merges after annihilation. He is the source and support of all. The …
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of GodheadTwo different principles are to be considered herein — namely āśraya, the object providing shelter, and āśrita, the dependents requiring shelter. The āśrita exist under the original principle, the āśr…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of GodheadŚrīla Jīva Gosvāmī states in his Bhagavat-sandarbha (16) that by His potencies, which act in natural sequences beyond the scope of the speculative human mind, the Supreme Transcendence, the summum bon…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of GodheadThese three energies of the Absolute Truth are also described in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, where it is said that the living being is equal in quality to the internal potency, whereas the external potency is i…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 2. Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of GodheadNow the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta turns to a description of the Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa in His innumerable expansions. The Lord primarily expands Himself in two categories, namely prābhav…
