Chaitanya Charitamrita (Complete Biography of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu)

This is the definitive history and biography of Sri Krishna Caitanya. Sri Caitanya pioneered a great social and spiritual movement in India over five hundred years ago, which today continues to spread its profound influence worldwide. While man in the West was exploring outward in the physical universe, in India Sri Krishna Caitanya was exploring inward, exhibiting unparalleled spiritual potency, and discovering the truths of consciousness and transcendental reality. As a young boy he overwhelmed astounded scholars, establishing his own school at the age of sixteen. Within his lifetime, Sri Caitanya transformed India in four respects: philosophically, by defeating the greatest philosophers of his day; socially, by opposing the blindly rigid caste system; politically, by organizing India’s first civil disobedience movement against repression by the Mohammedan government; and spiritually, by freely distributing nonsectarian love of God. Sri Caitanya-Caritamrta presents Sri Caitanya as the Golden Avatar, the incarnation of Krishna in this age in the form of His devotee. This is a summary study of Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, the authorized work on the life and teachings of Sri Krishna Chaitanyathe philosopher, saint, spiritual preceptor, mystic and divine incarnation who pioneered a great social and religious movement in sixteenth-century India. His teachings, which embody the highest philosophical and theological truths, have influenced countless philosophical and religious and thinkers up to the present day. This condensed version of the great epic provides the reader with a full narration of the pastimes as well as the most prominent lessons from the commentary