Category: Chaitanya Charitamrita

A god-brother of Lord Caitanya’s Guru who was called Ramachandra Puri criticized the Lord’s eating of Prasadam. The Lord, for the sake of setting a social norm immediately reduced His intake of prasadam. The Vaishnavas were very worried about the Lord and hence the Lord increased a bit of His intake bringing it to half as much as He used to take in His early days. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Fourteen”

After instructing Santana Goswami the Lord bestowed His mercy on the Mayavadis of Benares. The Lord travelled all over India for the next six years as a parivrajakacarya or travelling monk. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Thirteen”

The Lord considered the two brothers’ statement and thought that it is indeed inappropriate to enter Sri Vrindavana Dham with so many devotees. Nowadays it has become fashionable for world renowned spiritual leaders to enter Dhama in large numbers. Although the intention is genuine, Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Twelve”

It is important that when one undertakes Hari-Nama, the Spiritual master changes one’s birth name and presents a spiritual name to the sadhaka. The old birth name of the sadhaka carries with it material vibrations because before undergoing samskaras at the hands of the spiritual master, Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Eleven”

After conversing with Rupa Goswami or Dabira Khasa the King returned to his residential chamber. Dabira Khasa and his brother Saker Malik namely Santana Goswami who served as Prime Minister at the Muslim King’s court decided to go incognito and visit Sriman Mahaprabhu. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Ten”

Lord Sriman Mahaprabhu, on His way to Vrindavana was followed by throngs in very large numbers; all of them undoubtedly were devotees. People saw the Lord at various destinations and became delirious with divine love. They could not bear to separate themselves from the Lord and new sets of people joined the sea of humanity as the Lord proceeded towards Vrindavana. Wherever the Lord placed His lotus feet , crowds would gather to collect foot dust and roads were dug deep wherever the feet of the Lord fell , thus the crowd gathered cart-loads of foot dust. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Nine”

In the garden, Sriman Mahaprabhu showed mercy to King Prataparudra, the devotee King of Puri. Sriman Mahaprabhu was greatly revered by both Sri Sarvabhauma and his wife. Once Sriman Mahaprabhu was criticized at the home of Sarvabhauma by the host’s son-in-law on account of the sumptuous meal served to Him by Sarvabhauma’s wife. This deeply pained the host and the hostess. Sathi’s mother (Sathi was the daughter of Sarvabhauma) cursed her own son-in-law to die because of the insult meted out by him to Lord Mahaprabhu. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Eight”

In Srirangam, Lord Mahaprabhu defeated the tattvavadis and made them realize that they were inferior Vaishnavas. Sriman Mahaprabhu visited many temples in the south namely the Padmanabha, Anantadeva, Janardana and Vasudeva temples. The Lord then delivered the seven palm trees by embracing them and sending them back to Vaikuntha, behind which Sri Ramachandra stood and killed Vali during the fight between Sugriva and Vali. At Rameswaram the Lord had an opportunity to read Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Seven”

The Lord spent great time with all His associates and His mother at the house of Sri Advaita Acarya and then proceeded towards Jagannath Puri. He heard the story of His parama guru (His guru’s guru) Madhavendra Puri and also heard the story of how Sri Gopal was installed. The Lord heard the story of Sri Kshira Chora Gopal, the thief of sweet rice, from the mouth of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. During the course of journey to Sri Jagannath Puri, Sri Nityananda Prabhu broke the Sanyasa rod of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Sriman Mahaprabhu apparently was very angry with His elder brother Nityananda Prabhu and angrily left His company to reach the Jagannath temple before His elder brother Nityananda Prabhu. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Six”

The Gopis are personifications of the highest mood of transcendental eroticism, which is unknown to an embodied living entity on the material plane. This mood of erotica can have no mundane equivalent and represents the pure milieu of Bhakti Rasa.  This is the pinnacle of “Prayojana” or ultimate objective of the living entities. Sriman Mahaprabhu established this principle through His own life and teachings of which the six Goswamis were successors. About 530 years ago, the inner mood of Srimad Bhagavatham was revealed by the Lord in His most munificent Kaliyuga Avatara form. A special delicacy in the field of spiritualism was thus served by Sriman Mahaprabhu and the most confidential aspect of Godhead was thus revealed by Him. Continue reading “Bhakti Tattva – Part Five”