Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThis verse is Dvitīya Śrī Caitanyāṣṭaka 1, from the Stava-mālā of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThis verse is Dvitīya Śrī Caitanyāṣṭaka 8, from the Stava-mālā of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThis verse is Prathama Śrī Caitanyāṣṭaka 1, from the Stava-mālā of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuIn the material world, if a fragment is taken from an original object, the original object is reduced by the removal of that fragment. But the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not at all affected by …
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu“The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever i…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuIn the realm of the Absolute, one plus one equals one, and one minus one equals one. Therefore one should not conceive of a fragment of the Supreme Lord in the material sense. In the spiritual world t…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuIn the category of viṣṇu-tattva there is no loss of power from one expansion to the next, any more than there is a loss of illumination as one candle kindles another. Thousands of candles may be kindl…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuDemigods such as Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva come in contact with the material energy, and their power and potency are therefore of different gradations. All the incarnations of Viṣṇu, however, are equa…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThe word pāṣaṇḍa is very significant here. One who compares the Supreme Personality of Godhead to the demigods is known as a pāṣaṇḍa. Pāṣaṇḍas try to bring the Supreme Lord down to a mundane level. So…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 3. The External Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuPāṣaṇḍas, or atheists, cannot understand the pastimes of the Supreme Lord or transcendental loving service to the Lord. They think that devotional service is no better than ordinary fruitive activitie…
