Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Cultural legacy

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (also transliterated Caitanya, IAST caitanya mahaprabhu) (Bangla চৈতন্য মহাপ্রভূ) (1486 - 1534), was an ascetic Hindu monk and social reformer in 16th century Bengal, India (present-day West Bengal and Bangladesh). A great proponent of loving devotion for God bhakti yoga, Chaitanya worshiped the Lord in the ...

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Despite having been initiated in the Shri Madhvacharya tradition, Sri Chaitanya founded a tradition of his own, having some marked differences with the practices and the theology of the followers of Madhvacharya. He is not known to have composed anything but a series of verses known as the Siksastaka, "eight verses of instruction". He requested a select few among his followers, who later came to be known as the Six Gosvamis of Vrindavan, to systematically present the theology of bhakti he had taught in their writings. The six saints a ...

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's life, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's tradition, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Cultural legacy

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The story of Chaitanya's life is at times biographic and at times mythic, often associating him with stories of Krishna. According to Chaitanya Charitamrita, Caitanya was born as Visvambhar Mishra in 1486 as the second son of Jagannath Mishra and Sachi Devi in the town of Navadvipa in Nadiya, West Bengal, India. In his youth, Chaitanya was an erudite scholar, whose learning and skills in argumentation were next to none. Though religious at heart, Chaitanya did not display an active ...

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's life, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's tradition, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Cultural legacy

Read more here: » Chaitanya Mahaprabhu: Encyclopedia II - Chaitanya Mahaprabhu - Chaitanya's life