Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhutexts 22 and 23 were spoken by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad- gītā (4.7-8). texts 24 and 25, which follow, are also to be found in the Bhagavad-gītā (3.24, 21).
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThis quotation from the writings of Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura is found in the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta (1.5.37).
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThe prathama-sandhyā is the beginning of the age. According to astronomical calculation, the age is divided into twelve parts. The first of these twelve divisions is known as the prathama-sandhyā. The…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuLord Caitanya remained a householder only until His twenty-fourth year had passed. Then He entered the renounced order and remained manifest in this material world until His forty-eighth year. Therefo…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuSome so-called Vaiṣṇavas say that the renounced order of life was not accepted in the Vaiṣṇava sampradāya, or disciplic succession, until Lord Caitanya. This is not a very intelligent proposition. Śrī…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuDuring the time of Lord Caitanya, the influence of Śaṅkarācārya in society was very strong. People thought that one could accept sannyāsa only in the disciplic succession of Śaṅkarācārya. Lord Caitany…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuIn the Śaṅkara-sampradāya there are ten different names awarded to sannyāsīs: (1) Tīrtha, (2) Āśrama, (3) Vana, (4) Araṇya, (5) Giri, (6) Parvata, (7) Sāgara, (8) Sarasvatī, (9) Bhāratī and (10) Purī.…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuŚrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya established four monasteries in India, in the four directions (north, south, east and west), and he entrusted them to four sannyāsīs who were his disciples. Now there are hundreds…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuAccording to the regulation of the disciplic succession, one who wishes to enter the renounced order in Śaṅkara’s sect must first be trained as a brahmacārī under a bona fide sannyāsī, The brahmacārī’…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThe great authorities in the disciplic succession had not offered to explain why Lord Caitanya refused to take the name Bhāratī after He took sannyāsa from a Bhāratī, until Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Saras…
