Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersThe devotees of Orissa are called Uḍiyās, the devotees of Bengal are called Gauḍīyas, and the devotees of southern India are known as Drāviḍa devotees. As there are five provinces in Āryāvarta, so Dāk…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersLord Caitanya is the Absolute Truth, Kṛṣṇa Himself. This is substantiated by evidence from the authentic spiritual scriptures. Sometimes people accept a man as God on the basis of their whimsical sent…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersKṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has composed this Sanskrit verse for the beginning of his book, and now he will explain it in detail. He offers his respectful obeisances to the six principles of the Absolu…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersĪśa-bhaktān refers to the devotees of the Lord like Śrī Śrīvāsa and all other such followers, who are the energy of the Lord and are qualitatively nondifferent from Him. Īśāvatārakān refers to ācāryas…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersThe six principles are differently manifested but all equally worshipable. Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja begins by offering his obeisances unto them to teach us the method of worshiping Lord Caitanya. The extern…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersŚrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, in his thesis Bhakti-sandarbha (202), has stated that uncontaminated devotional service is the objective of pure Vaiṣṇavas and that one has to execute such service in the associati…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersThe spiritual master is also called ācārya, or a transcendental professor of spiritual science. The Manu-saṁhitā (2.140) explains the duties of an ācārya, describing that a bona fide spiritual master …
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersOnly out of His immense compassion does the Personality of Godhead reveal Himself as the spiritual master. Therefore in the dealings of an ācārya there are no activities but those of transcendental lo…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersIf one poses himself as an ācārya but does not have an attitude of servitorship to the Lord, he must be considered an offender, and this offensive attitude disqualifies him from being an ācārya. The b…
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Ādi-līlā - 1. The Spiritual MastersThe real Vedic philosophy is acintya-bhedābheda-tattva, which establishes everything to be simultaneously one with and different from the Personality of Godhead. Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī confirms…
