Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - ForewordThe author also proves that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is identical to Lord Kṛṣṇa and explains that He descends to liberally grant the fallen souls of this degraded age pure love of God by propagating saṅkīr…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - ForewordThe Madhya-līlā, the longest of the three divisions, narrates in detail Lord Caitanya’s extensive and eventful travels throughout India as a renounced mendicant, teacher, philosopher, spiritual precep…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - ForewordThe Antya-līlā concerns the last eighteen years of Śrī Caitanya’s presence, spent in semiseclusion near the famous Jagannātha temple in Purī. During these final years, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya drifted deepe…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - ForewordBy this time, contemporary and near-contemporary scholars and devotees had already written several biographical works on the life of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. These included Śrī Caitanya-carita, …
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - ForewordAs mentioned above, this English translation and commentary is the work of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, the world’s most distinguished teacher of Indian religious and philoso…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - ForewordEditor’s note: Revisions in this edition are based on the transcripts of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda’s original dictation of the translations, word meanings and purports of Ś…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersThe author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta offers his respectful obeisances unto the three Deities of Vṛndāvana named Śrī Rādhā-Madana-mohana, Śrī Rādhā-Govindadeva and Śrī Rādhā-Gopīnāthajī. These three D…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersGauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas perceive the ultimate objective in Vedic hymns composed of eighteen transcendental letters that adore Kṛṣṇa as Madana-mohana, Govinda and Gopījana-vallabha. Madana-mohana is He who c…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersThe three Deities — Madana-mohana, Govinda and Gopījana-vallabha — have very specific qualities. Worship of Madana-mohana is on the platform of reestablishing our forgotten relationship with the Perso…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersGauḍīya indicates the part of India between the southern side of the Himalayan Mountains and the northern part of the Vindhyā Hills, which is called Āryāvarta, or the Land of the Āryans. This portion …
