Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuAccording to the Upaniṣads, all living entities are dependent on the supreme living entity, the Personality of Godhead. As it is said (Kaṭha Up. 2.2.13), nityo nityānāṁ cetanaś cetanānām eko bahūnāṁ y…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuYogamāyā is the name of the internal potency that makes the Lord forget Himself and become an object of love for His pure devotee in different transcendental mellows. This yogamāyā potency creates a s…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuIn Goloka Vṛndāvana there is an exchange of love known as parakīya-rasa. It is something like the attraction of a married woman for a man other than her husband. In the material world this sort of rel…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThose under the spell of the material energy cannot at all appreciate the activities of yogamāyā, for a conditioned soul can hardly understand the pure reciprocation between the Lord and His devotee. …
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuIn the spiritual loving sentiment induced by the yogamāyā potency, both Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the damsels of Vraja forget themselves in spiritual rapture. By the influence of such forgetfulness, the attr…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThe acts of yogamāyā make it possible for the Lord and the gopīs, in loving ecstasy, to sometimes meet and sometimes separate. These transcendental loving affairs of the Lord are unimaginable to empir…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThe gopīs came out to meet Kṛṣṇa in the dead of night when they heard the sound of His flute. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī has accordingly composed a nice verse (see Ādi 5.224) that describes the beautiful boy …
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuBy leaving home in that way, the gopīs transgressed the Vedic regulations of household life. This indicates that when natural feelings of love for Kṛṣṇa become fully manifest, a devotee can neglect co…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuThe spontaneous attraction of Śrī Kṛṣṇa for His dearest parts and parcels generates an enthusiasm that obliges Śrī Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs to meet together. To celebrate this transcendental enthusiasm, th…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 4. The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya MahāprabhuMany realized souls, such as Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and King Kulaśekhara, have recommended with great emphasis that one develop this spontaneous love of Godhead, even at the risk of transgressing all…
