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Initially, the Chaitanya Bhagavata was named Chaitanya Mangala.Krishnadasa Kaviraja also mentioned this work by this name. According to the Premavilasa of Narottama Dasa, when it was discovered that the poet Lochana Dasa had also written a work with this title, the leading members of the Vaishnava community in Vrindavan met and decided that Vrindavana Dasa's book would be known as the ...
Brihad-bhagavatamrita is a sacred text for followers of the Hindu tradition of Gaudiya Vaishnavism.Along with Hari-bhakti-vilasa, it is one of the most important works of Vaishnava theologian Sanatana Goswami.
Works on Chaitanya: [16] [17] [18] Krsna-Caitanya-Caritamrta (c. 1513 or 1536–1540; Sanskrit) By Murari Gupta. Known as a kadcha or chronicle. Chaitanya's Navadwipa līla and each panca-tattva presented as a form of the Lord. Caitanya went for the first time to Murari's house at Navadwipa.
Krishna Dasa's Chaitanya Charitamrita covers Chaitanya's later years and also explains in detail the rasa philosophy that Chaitanya and his followers expounded. The Chaitanya Charitamrita also serves as a compendium of Gaudiya Vaishnava practices and outlines the Gaudiya theology developed by the Goswamis in metaphysics, ontology and aesthetics.
However, in 1913 Bhaktisiddhanta established a printing press in Calcutta, and called it bhagavat-yantra ("God's machine") [48] and began to publish medieval Vaishnava texts in Bengali, such as the Chaitanya Charitamrita by Krishnadasa Kaviraja, supplemented with his own commentary.
Gaudiya Vaishnavism (IAST: Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavasampradāyaḥ), also known as Chaitanya Vaishnavism, [1] [2] [note 1] is a Vaishnava Hindu religious movement inspired by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) in India. [14] "
On 7 March 1918, [2] the same day he took sannyasa, he established the Sri Chaitanya Math in Mayapura in West Bengal, later recognised as the parent body of all the Gaudiya Math branches. [2] Its purpose was to spread Gaudiya Vaishnavism , the philosophy of the medieval Vaisnava saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , through preaching and publishing .
Chaitanya and Nityananda, is shown performing a 'kirtan' (devotional song) in the streets of Nabadwip, Bengal. Nityananda was born to a religious Bengali Brahmin called Pandit Hadai, and his wife, Padmavati, [5] in Ekachakra [6] around 1474. His devotion and great talent for singing Vaishnava hymns were apparent from a very early age.