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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Caitanya, IAST Caitanya Mahāprabhu; 1486–1534 [66]) was a Bengali spiritual teacher who founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism. He is believed by his devotees to be Krishna himself who appeared in the form of His own devotee in order to teach the people of this world the process of Bhakti and how to attain the ...
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.
Caitanya-upanisad; A book that is a part of the Atharvaveda which offers overwhelming evidence of Chaitanya's identity as the Supreme Lord and Yuga Avatara. Sri Caitanya-caranamrta Bhasva (1887) By Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. Commentary on an original handwritten manuscript of the Caitanya-upanisad from one pandita, Madhusudana Maharaja, of ...
He came as a devotee of the Lord to teach the conditioned souls how to discharge devotional service properly. The master is teaching the servant by his own example. Therefore, the path chalked out by Lord Chaitanya is taken as the most perfect by all the acharyas (learned authorities from disciplic succession). Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati ...
The English translation was made by a group of Sadananda's students and their friends, viz. Mario Windish (Mandali Bhadra Das) - a former translator of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami's texts [9] into German, Kid Samuelsson and Bengt Lundborg - the translators of "Krishna-Caitanya" into Swedish, [10] and Katrin Stamm - an Indologist at the University of Flensburg and the manager of the archive of ...
Therefore Lord Caitanya established His sublime doctrine: acintya bheda-and-abheda-tattva -- simultaneous oneness and difference." ( A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) [ 4 ] An analogy often used as an explanation in this context in the relationship between the Sun and the Sunshine. [ 12 ]
The Six Goswamis of Vrindavan were a group of devotional teachers from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism who lived in India during the 15th and 16th centuries. [citation needed] They are closely associated with the land of Vrindavan where they spent much time in service of their guru, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is considered as Krishna's yuga-avatar by the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage ...
From left to right (click on feet to go to article): Advaita Acharya, Nityananda, Chaitanya, Gadadhara Pandita, Srivasa. The Pancha Tattva ( Sanskrit : पञ्चतत्त्व , romanized : pañca-tattva , from Sanskrit pañca meaning "five" and tattva "truth" or "reality"), in the Gaudiya Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism , are five ...