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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi-līlā - CHAPTER 13 - The Advent of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Author: Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī Language: Sanskrit & Bengali Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, by Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, is the principal work on the life and teachings of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Rendered by : Yaśodā Kumāra Dāsa Chaitanya Charitamrita https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ZN2BjziCVStVSDRGqa6KI2LkguaPzwg CHECK OUT OUR CHANNEL PLAYLIST "GAURANGA" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ZN2BjziCVTq7FEWK42AKelvnKAWE-gr Bhagavad Gita Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ZN2BjziCVSSFWWWCQF1K5kps6y-Zo4C Click here for more videos of SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7ZN2BjziCVTRySGmnhyNQuNTEIhDjxT2 Click the JOIN button to spread the Spiritual Bliss for the welfare of One and All https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC064J7xkO4hgAN1A4T-yjw/join Subscribe our YouTube Channel & Stay Connected for more Peace bestowing Videos!!! https://www.youtube.com/c/MantraTrance Like us on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/MANTRATRANCE.YKD Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/MantraTranceYKD Mail us @ mantratrance108@gmail.com Website - https://www.mantratrance.com © Copyrights 2021 - MANTRA TRANCE Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is divided into three sections, called līlās, a word that literally means “pastimes” — the Ādi-līlā (recounting the early period of Lord Caitanya’s pastimes), the Madhya-līlā (recounting the middle period), and the Antya-līlā (recounting the final period). The notes of Murāri Gupta form the basis of the Ādi-līlā, and Svarūpa Dāmodara’s diary provides the details for the Madhya- and Antya-līlās. The first twelve chapters of the Ādi-līlā constitute the preface for the entire work. By referring to Vedic scriptural evidence, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja establishes that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the avatāra (incarnation) of God for the Age of Kali — the current epoch, which began five thousand years ago and is characterized by materialism, hypocrisy, and dissension. The 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 saṅkīrtana — literally, “congregational glorification of God” — especially by organizing massive public chanting of the mahā-mantra: Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. In addition, in the twelve-chapter preface Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja reveals the esoteric purpose of Lord Caitanya’s appearance in the world, describes His co-avatāras and principal devotees, and summarizes His teachings. In the remaining portion of the Ādi-līlā, chapters thirteen through seventeen, the author briefly recounts Lord Caitanya’s divine birth and His life until He accepted the renounced order. This account includes His childhood miracles, schooling, marriage, and early philosophical confrontations, as well as His organization of a widespread saṅkīrtana movement and His civil disobedience against the repression of the Muslim government. The 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 preceptor, and mystic. During this period of six years, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu transmits His teachings to His principal disciples. He debates and converts many of the renowned philosophers and theologians of His time, including Śaṅkarites, Buddhists, and Muslims, and incorporates their many thousands of followers and disciples into His own burgeoning numbers. The author also includes in this section a dramatic account of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s miraculous activities at the giant Ratha-yātrā (Car Festival) in Jagannātha Purī, Orissa. The 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 deeper and deeper into trances of spiritual ecstasy unparalleled in all of religious and literary history, Eastern or Western. His perpetual and ever-increasing religious beatitude, graphically described in the eyewitness accounts of Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, His constant companion during this period, clearly defy the investigative and descriptive abilities of modern psychologists and phenomenologists of religious experience.