Chaitanya Chandramrita

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Chaitanya Chandramrita
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Saraswati Prabodhananda.
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Love alone is the chief good

of human life.
Translated into English
BY
Bidhu Bhushan Sarkar B.A.
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CHAITANYA CHANDRAMRITA
OF
SREEMAT SARASWATI PRABODHANANDA.
Translated into English

BY
BIDHU BHUSHAN SARKAR, e. a.
Sahityabhushan, Bidyabinode,
Head Master of a High English School.
July, 1935.
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Preface.
Srce Chaitanya Chandramrita is an authentic book

written by Saraswati Prabodhananda on the true
attributes of Sree Gauranga as he appreciated Him.

This great savant — the author of the book did not —
write it on second-hand information $ he came in direct
contact with The Lord and took to His lotus feet
after great deliberations, and he was a great intellectual
giant
— the greatest erudite scholar of his time. So,
what he says in this book can be safely relied on without
the least hesitation or doubt. It was for this reason,
that, that saint of a man, Babu Sisir Kumar Ghosh, the
well-known founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, who

carried home into the minds of the educated public the
tenetsand teachings of Sree Gauranga by writing

books like "Amiya Nimai Charit" in six parts in Bengali
and 'Lord Gauranga in two parts in English, very
kindly asked me to bring out the translation of this
book ; and so is my humble attempt. Babu Sisir
Kumar saw it and left a remark in writing—-"lt is good.

I like it."
I admit my weakness both in my knowledge of
English and in my conception of the true attributes of
The Lord ; so, I

fear, I have not been able to hold
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before all the true spirit o\ what Saraswati Prabodhananda
meant in these verses of his. Still, I
hope, this will help
the reader in getting a glimpse of Sree Gauranga.
I
agree with Hegel, a philosopher of the west, that
religion is a matter of revelation. And I believe that
this revelation comes through concentration and prayer.

\nd if we pray for some time "Oh Lord
— !
Open
mine eyes," Truth will be revealed to us. This translation
of the book, I
hope, will awaken in the reader's mind
a desire to know about Gauranga, and so he may be
inclined to pray to God for the revelation of the Truth
about the Lord.
It will not be out of place here to give a short
sketch of the life of Saraswati Prabodhananda, for,
unless we know the life of the author, we may not be

inclined to accept the truth he realises.
Life Sketch of Saraswati

Prabodhananda.
Saraswati Prabodhananda's native home was at
Belgundi, a village near Seringapatam on the river

Caveri Mysore
in in the Deccan. From his very boy-
hood he was of a thoughtful turn of mind. In his early
life he studied the Vedas and the six schools of Hindu
Philosophy, specially the Vedanta ; and the nothingness

of the world as delineated by Sankaracharyya in his
well-known commentaries on the Vedanta Philosophy
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so much impressed him, that he renounced the world

at a very early age, even before his marriage, and turned
a Sanyasi by embracing the cult of Sankaracharyya.

He now settled at Benares, the then greatest centre of
learning in western India. At that time there were

two main centres of learning in India — one at Benares
and the other at Navadwip ; the former was well-known
for the culture of the Vedanta Philosophy and the
latter for the Nyaya Philosophy. Saraswati Prabo-
dhananda was the leader of the Vedantists and Basudev
Sarbabhaum was the leader of Naiyayiks ( the followers
of Nyaya ). Both of them were distinguished intellec-
tual geniuses. Basudev belonged to Bengal and

Prabodhananda belonged to Southern India. Prabodha-
nanda's former name was Prakasananda before he was
blessed with the grace of The Lord.
Formerly Nyaya Philosophy was cultured only in
Mithila or modern Behar ; and the scholars of this
philosophy there did not allow this philosophy to go

outside Mithila, lest their fame should be cast into shade,
for, they feared, that people of greater intellect of other

provinces might surpass them, if they could get an
opportunity to have the whole book written and spread

in their parts of the country. They specially feared the
Bengali intellect. This was in the fifteenth century

when there was no printing press. The only way of
access to the book was to write it out and thus spread
it from place to place • but it was not allowed. So

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students from other provinces would go there to study
this philosophy. And, it happened, that Basudev
Sarbabhaum of Navadwip went there as a student, and
so sharp was his memory, and so keenly did he feel the
want of this great philosophy in Bengal, that he
committed the whole book to memory and brought

it to his own province. It was he who first started
at Navadwip a to I or school for teaching Nyaya
in a
most attractive way. Mithila was thus really
thrown into the back ground and students from various
provinces began to flock to the feet of this great teacher

Sarbabhaum. And this was an age of learning, and,
students came by thousands. Not only Nyaya, other
branches knowledge also were cultured here at
of
Navadwip which was then a very big city. Sarbabhaum's

renown spread far and wide.
Rudra the then mighty independent
Raja Pratap
Hindu king of Orissa heard of his reputation and made
him his court-pundit. So great was his influence, that
next to Jagannath he was adored by one and all of the

whole of Orissa. He shifted his home from Navadwip
and lived with his family at Puri near to the temple of
Jagannath. The big house known as Gangamatha

Matha at Pari still stands to remind one of the vast
erudition of this great scholar. Though not a sannyasi
himself, he was the preceptor of many sannyasi stud-
ents and these came from different parts of the country
to study at his feet. That was the day of the Vedanta
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philosophy as expounded by Sankaracharyya. The

learned Basudev therefore was well-versed in this philo-
sophy as well, nay, he was well-versed in all the
philosophies and all the sacred Hindu Scriptures as a

great scholar of his reputation should have to be. He,
too, was a great follower of Sankar except in the fact
that he embrace the sannyasa stage of life. did not
He cherished the theory of Sankar in high esteem and
considered it to be the highest goal of human life. And
what is this theory in short ? It is this. True salvation
consists in the absolute merging of the human soul in
the Great Divine Soul. The cuit of- Bhakti and

prem was unknown to them, or at least not recog-
nised by them. Sarbabham had seen before his very
eyes at Puri various expressions of Bhakti, for,
millions of people from different parts of the country

flocked there to be blessed with the sight of Jagannath,
they bowed before Him, fell prostrate before Him,

all
prayed to Him in various ways with folded hands, gave

many offerings to Ja^annath, and so on and he per- ;
ceived no doubt that the people were doing all this out
of firm devotion or bhakti ; but, still he beleived, that
bhakti was not an end in itself, he thought that it
was only a means to the attainment of that Jnana

which was preached by Sankaracharyya and which
speaks of the disappearance absolute of the human
soul in Brahma — The Great Thus Being. did Sarbabhaum
pass his days in Puri.
Sree Gauranga the Latest Incarnation of God
or better, Who is God Incarnate, came down to the
world at Navadwip, and, from the very beginning of His

descent up to the age when He was twentyfour years,
He transformed the whole of Bengal into a land of
bliss by His sweet Kirtan. One writer puts it beauti-
fully thus was almost immersed and the

that Santipur
whole of Nade (Navadwip) was flooded by the ocean

of love revealed and swollen by the holy Kirtan
introduced by The Lord. He loved all equally. He

made no distinction of caste or creed. The virtuous
and the sinful found equal solace in His warm embrace.
The learned and the ignorant, the educated and the
illiterate, the rich and the poor, the high and the low,
all found equal shelter at His lotus feet and they were
equally graced by His look of love. Equality of man

was established by His superior love. People began to
love one another as their brethren. This universal
brotherhood The Lord wanted to spread all over India.

So he left Navadwip and in the garb of a Sannyasi
travelled over the whole country on foot. At first He
went to Nilachal now called Puri. Sarbabhaum had
a long controversy with Him and was converted, and
the whole of Orissa with Raja Pratap Rudra and his
spiritual guide Kasi Misra followed Sarbabhaum, and
they all looked upon The Lord as God Incarnate. They

all began to worship Sree Gauranga as the most Perfect
Embodiment of Bliss, Beauty and Love.
( 7 )
Now that Basudev Sarbabhaum became a staunch

devotee of The Lord, he came to realise what a dry and
unpleasant life he lived so long by following the path of
jnan. Now by worshipping Sree Gauranga and

enjoying the sweet bliss of His love he fully appreciated
that his life was now what it should be, and that such a
life is worth living. He now found the world
around him all blissful. And again, this thought crossed
his mind how many a man like him was sadly deprived
of this sweet bliss of life by treading in that dry path
of jnan. Specially he thought of Saraswati Praka-
sananda, that well-known saint of Benares of all-India
repute, and also of the men of his way of thinking. He
felt pity for that saint and his disciples ; and so firm
was his conviction that he would be able to convert the
saint to this cult of bhakti and prem and give him

the true bliss of life, that he went on foot to Benares
hundreds of miles away from Puri. But alas ! he had
to come back unsuccessful. That pedant of Benares
could not be brought round by any earthly power.

On the thirteenth day of the waxing moon in the
Bengali month of Magh Sree Gauranga left Navadwip,

and having delivered Sarbabhaum at Puri in the month
of Chaitra, He left for the Deccan by the first week

of Baisakh. And having travelled over the whole of
Southern India He made millions of converts there.
They worshipped The Lord as the latest Incarnation

all
of God, and the whole Deccan danced in divine delight

( 8 )
with The Lord in loud Kirtan or singing the names
of Hari. Even the very native home of our saint
Prakasananda was not excepted. This the saint could
hardly bear. He never believed in Avatar. And a

Bengali Sannyasi should pass for an Avatar ! This was
more than he could bear. And again, the idea of
singing aloud the names of God and dancing in
divine joy specially on the part of a Sannyasi was

quite repugnant to his ideas. This could never be reli-
gion, he thought. The Saraswati took such Kirtan

and dance for some form of hypnotism practised upon
the people by Sree Gauranga, by which He overpowered
them ; he could never imagine that the ecstatic divine
delight that made the people dance with The Lord could
be so easy of access, for, he for his whole life could
not attain the least of such joy in his trance by all his
strictest penance. So, he took Sree Gauranga at best
for a sentimental hypnot. All the more was his wrath

when he heard that Gopal Bhatta, his own nephew,
whom he loved much and whom he had educated in his
own ideals, also embraced this faith and took to the
lotus feet of Sree Gauranga.
The Lord came back to Puri after He had blessed
the whole of Southern India with His Supreme Love. As
we see now, in those days too, numerous pilgrims would
flock to this sacred place to be sanctified with the sight

of Jagannath. And when the happy message spread
from mouth to mouth that Sree Gauranga The Great
( 9 )
Nadia Avatar was living at Puri and doing His blissful
Lee a of love to the superior delight of

I hearts, the all
number of pilgrims increased more and more. Saraswati

Prakasananda of course came to know of all this. He
knew as well that the mighty scholar Basudev Sarba-
bhaum and also the king of Orissa looked upon Sree
Gauranga as Jagannath Himself or The Lord of all the
worlds. The more he learnt all this, the more was he
burning within himself with the fury of ire and the less
could he control his passion. At last ht gave vent to

his feelings of wrath and malice in a letter to The Lord
sent through one of the pilgrims. The letter was
simply a slokaor verse written by the saint in Sanskrit.
It ran thus —
''Benares Is a very sacred place. The
holy Ganges is flowing by. Those who

desire salvation must reside here. He who
lives elsewhere is foolishly duped like a beast
that runs after a mirage."
Or, in other words, Saraswati Prakasananda likened

The Lord to a beast'as He was living at Puri and not at
Benare; where Saraswati himself was residing. The

fact is, that Saraswati Prakasananda had no faith in the
sanctity of Benares or in that of the waters of the Ganges.

He never believed that salvation could be attained merely
by living in that place. His ideal of salvation consisted
in the oneness of the human sou! with the Divine or the
absolute disappearance of the former in the latter, and

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this, he beleived, could only be attained by the culture of
Nirbhed Bra hm a j nan which amounts almost to

Buddhistic Nirvana. The object of his writing that letter
to The Lord was not to give Benares a much more

exalted position than Puri, but simply to belittle the
position of Sree Gauranga and trumpet his own vaunted
superiorioty. But The Lord only smiled with mercy to

go through the letter. He sent a reply. It ran thus
—
"My friend, Love is the highest end
of human life. God is All-Love, All-
Beauty and All-Bliss. Be pleased to

culture that love. We need not enter
into any controversy over the superiority

or inferioriiy of any place, or any human
being or any scripture."
What a wide difference between these two letters !
Prakasananda's letter breathed contempt, while that of

The Lord was teeming with Love. Prakasananda likened
The Lord to a beast, while The Lord called him a friend.
Prakasananda expected a reply in filthier terms, for,
his was a fighting spirit,

— his
argumentative mind
wanted a shastric fight. But the reply was far above
him, and so he was frustrated. For the second time he
made a meaner attempt to incite The Lord by crying Him

down ; for, about this time next year he sent another
letter through a pilgrim which was more vilifying than
before. But The Lord did not think it worth His while
to send a reply this time.
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In the sixth year of His Sannyasa life Sree Gaur-

anga went to Benares on His way to Holy Brindavan.
The Lord at that time had only three disciples there, and
they were Tapan Misra a Brahman, Chandra Sekhar a
Kayestha, and Purushottam a Vaidya. Tapan Misra's
native home was in East Bengal. He was an old man
and had studied many shastras, but could not deter-
mine the true end of life and the means to that end. In
spite all his erudition he sincerely felt his ignorance of

the true attributes of God, the final goal of human life
and how to attain it and all that. When Sree Gauranga in
His household as Pundit Nimai had gone to

life East
Bengal, Tapan Misra saw a vision at night that dictated

to him thus —
"O Tapan Go to Nimai Pundit and !
fall at His feet, for, He

The Holy Incarnation of this
is
age. He enlighten you on all that you want to

will
know." And verily Tapan Misra went to The Lord

Nimai and fell at His holy feet and prayed to Him
that He might reveal all truths to Him. Sree Gauranga
said —
The Highest End of human life,
the means to attain that end, all truths
about God, and whatever thou mayest

desire to know, will all be revealed
to thee through San kirtan or singing
the names of Hari."
So saying, The Lord gave him the following ma ha-
mantra or the Hymn of all hymns :
—
( 12 )
H&ra Krishna Hara Krishna Krishna Krishna Hara Hara

Hara Rama Hard Rama Rama Rama Hard Hard.
The Lord told him further to go to Benares and live there
with his family, for, he said, in that very place he would

seeHim again some years after. So, at His bidding
Tapan came to Benares and was so long waiting all
expectant for the day when he would see his sweet Lord.
And day came

the at last, for The Lord came and lived
with him for some days.

It was spread all over Benares that a Superman of
Divine Beauty had appeared in the sacred city and who-
ever saw Him was attracted to His feet. Prakasananda,
from all reports that reached his ears, understood that
He was no other than Sree Gauranga Himself Who had

maddened the whole Deccan. Saraswati Prakasananda
was the undisputed leader of the place, nay, people
adored him next to Bisweswar or Lord Siva. Natur-
ally therefore he expected that Sree Gauranga would

go to his place to have an interview with him. But no.
He mixed with none. He would everyday go to the
holy Ganges for a bath and return to Tapan Misra's

house. During a few days' stay there, the divine halo
round His Holy Figure and His sweet Kirtan won num-
erous hearts. And very soon He left Benares for
Brindavan.
In the absence of The Lord that pedant saint began
to speak vehemently against Him before all his disciples
a. id all the people that came to him. For he said, "That
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Bengalee Sannyasi, whom they call Avatar, knows

nothing of the Vedanta, nothing of the Shastras. He
had not the heart to mix with the learned sannyasis of
this great city. The anniversary day of the meeting of
the sannyasis is
drawing near and he left the place even
before that date, lest he should have to be present at the
meeting and be exposed. Absolutely vain is his attempt

in this great place of learning"
Now that Sree Gauranga was gone, Prakasananda
breathed a sigh of relief to think that no more was there
any chance of his superior unrivalled position being

shaken by that mighty sannyasi of Bengal. But this could
never be. The object of Sree Gauranga was to bless
all the sannyasis and for that all the people with His
Divine Love. And with this object in view He was out
on His religious tour. It was He who knew full well
how and when to do it. The whole of Bengal was

already flooded with His love. And so was the Deccan.
The western India now remained ; and Benares was the
main centre. Should He and could He leave this place
without illumining it with the divine lustre of His love !
No. That could not be. Let us see how He did it,
From the Holy Brindavan Sree Gauranga came

again to Benares on His way back to Puri 5 and stayed
here for more than two months. Full two months The
Lord took to make Sanatan fully conversant with the true
imports of all the Hindu philosophies and all the

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scriptures and above all with the highest philosophy of

Supreme Love.
Sanatan was the prime minister of Hossain Shah the then
Nawabof Bengal. He had a unique position there, for he
was the right hand of the Nawab. Hussain Shah had dele-
gated most of his power to this able minister and in many

affairs Sanatan acted as Nawab. But all his rank and
tittle, pelf and power gave him no rest. When he heard
of The Great Nadia Avatar, he thought of renouncing the
world and taking to His lotus feet for eternal peace.
Now, when he learnt that the Lord left Puri for Brinda-
van, Sanatan made no delay. He ran to his Loved Lord
and met Him at Benares when He came back from
Brindavan. Here Sanatan got his full inspiration from
the Lord for his future sacred mission at Srec Brindavan.
Prakasananda was much amazed to learn that The

Lord was again at Benares. AN the more was he taken
aback to learn that the prime minister of Bengal cut off
worldly ties out of deep love for Sree Gauranga. And
again, the masterly exposition that The Lord made of all
the scriptures to Sanatan must have also been reported
to him. Further, the number of followers of Sree Gauranga
gradually increased day by day. All these seemed to shake

the high pillar of vanity on which the savant sat. But
what could Prakasananda do now ? The only way left
to him was to speak evil of the Lord with much more
vehemence in season and out of season ; his Sannyasi
disciples too followed the instance oi their preceptor.
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A Mahratta Brahman by this time likemany others

became a staunch follower of The Lord. He was for-
merly a disciple of Prakasananda. One day he went to
him and with much humility requested him to see Sree Gau-
ranga once, for, he believed, that to see Him was to love
Him. The Brahman fully believed that all the spite,all

the
ill-feeling that the great savant cherished against The Lord

would vanish in a moment as soon as he would see Him,
for, the very sight of The Lord would convince that great
saint thatHe was God Incarnate. But Prakasananda

laughed him down and said, "You too have gone mad !
I know him. He is Chaitanya. But he is a great cheat !
Benares, you know, is the greatest centre of learning in
all India. No sentimental foolishness will have a place

here. Tell him he will have to go away baffled from
here. As for yourself, I ask you not to mix with him
and be befooled. Study Vedanta."
The Mahratta Brahman was all the more wounded,
but his firm faith in The Lord was not in the least shaken.
He arranged for a meeting of the sannyasis with The
Lord. His house was sufficiently fpacicus to accommo-
date numerous people. The sannyasis were invited even
without the permission of the Lord, for he believed, that
The Lord was too kind to refuse his humble prayer which
was not for his own selfish end but tor permanent $ood
of the sannyasis and ot all the people ot Benares. And
actually when the Brahman with humble entreaties made
this proposal to The Lord that He should grace the
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meeting by His presence, The Lord agreed with a smile.

The spacious hall that was temporarily raised for the
purpose by that blessed Brahman was filled to its utmost
capacity. Thousands of sannyasis met. Other people

too gathered by thousands out of great curiosity to see
the shastric-fight The prominent disciples of Praka-
sananJa were all prepared for the fight ; they thought
that they would be able to calm Sree Gauranga at
a word, their preceptor would not have to speak at
all ; they expected thereby to show the mighty power

of the savant, for, they were under the impression
that people would hardly be able to gauge the infinite
depth of learning of their preceptor by seeing such in
his disciples. The people that were by this time

attracted to the feet of The Lord were also present
"there. They had a firm faith in Him no doubt, but,
so frail ishuman mind, and sometimes it is so much
beset with doubts and suspicions and peepings of
disbelief, that they too sometimes felt waverings in their
hearts. Some went there to make their "assurance
doubly sure,"
— to have their faith in The Lord firmer
still. Some had firm conviction that The Lord would
win over the sannyasis to His side by His very presence
and by embalming their hearts with love by His very
look ever beaming with lustre of love. But every one
was confident that this day would decide the fate of
Kasi (Benares).
However, all the people that assembled vfere

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eagerly waiting for that happy moment of the arrival
of The Lord, and when their expectation reached its
highest pitch, The Lord came — A Bright Holy Figure,

Humility Personified, Beauty Embodied and Love
Incarnate. Four Him, and these
disciples were with
were Tapan Misra, Sanatan, Chandra Sekhar, and
Purushottam. The prediction of the Mahratta Brahman
came to be true — the very sight of The Lord exercised
a charm over the whole assembly, all were electrified,
and, spell-bound, as it were, all the people, even that
king of sannyasis with all his followers stood

up a in
body to greet The Lord. Saraswati Prakasananda him-

self stepped forward to lead Him to the centre of the
meeting. Ail took their seats. Perfect silence reigned

over the assemblage for some time. Prakasananda
was so much overpowered by a thrill of delight not
felt before, that he could not for a while open his lips.
A struggle was now raging in his mind — struggle between

his natural and spontaneous submission to The Lord
and his former vanity. Sometimes the one, sometimes
the other predominated. Sometimes he felt he was in a
bright region far above this mortal world, sometimes

his haughtiness, his superior position, his vast erudition
tried to bring him down. In a word, waves of feelings

tossed his mind —two divergent thoughts troubled his
spirit. Once from above he could see the unsoundness

of his position below, and again from below he could
see the brightness far above. And in this struggle his
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master mind could judge what a vast difference is there

between undisturbed calmness of spirit and the agitat-
ing uneasiness of vaunted glory. At last collecting
himself, the learned sage spoke out in a tone of humility,
in a spirit of submission. Two things were uppermost

in his mind. He lived and moved and had his being
in Vedanta. So he wanted to know from The Lord
what was His idea about it. And again, he could not
for the world imagine what ecstatic joy there might be
that could make a man dance and sing and shed tears
as The Lord and His followers did. So this was

also what he wanted to know from The Lord.
So sweetly and feelingly and at the same time
in such a masterly way did The Lord reply, that every
word of His acted as a miracle — it sent a thrill of ioy
to every heart. His learned and lucid exposition of
the Vedanta philosophy and in that connexion the holy
Vedas and His final deduction of the Truth that God —
is AH Love and He is to be attained and worshipped
with love which is the summum bonum of human life,
and that, as God is All-Bliss, the world too is all
blissful —simply charmed them all and made chem feel
that Sree Gauranga is God Incarnate and that He

came down to the earth not only as the Saviour of
mankind but also to transform this world into Golok
or the Highest Heaven of love. And last of all He said
that taking the Names of Hari* is the simplest, easiest
The word Hari is derived from the root Hri which

( 19 )
and surest way of attaining prem (love) and getting

the true revelation of God 5 no rigidity, no penance, no
ritual, no sacrificial ceremony is possible in this Age of
Sin. Not to speak of attaining prem which is the
highest end of human life, even salvation is not possible by

following any path other than the simple way of taking His
Names. Sankirtan*, He said, cleanses the mirror of the mind
where God is rightly reflected, it extinguishes the fire of
all troubles, it sheds the cool beam of the true end of life,
it gives life to all learning, it swells the ocean of bliss,
it enables one to taste more and more of the purest

nectar of love, it purifies all hearts and it is ever supreme.
The whole assembly felt they were in a bright land
of love with Sree Gauranga as their Lord. AH were
quite changed. And the meeting dispersed after the Lord
was treated with some sweets, and the Lord partook of
them with Prakasananda at the same plate.
Every word of the Lord was now ringing in the

ears of the great Saraswati; His Sweet Figure was deeply
impressed upon his mind. In his solitude now Prakasa-
nanda saw before his mind's eye nothing but the sweet
Figure of the Lord and he heard nothing but His sweet
means to steal, to remove ; The Lord says, the Name Hari

has various meanings, two of which are most important (1) He —
removes all evils and (2) Steals (wins) all hearts with love.
•Sankirtan implies loud singing as well as counting Names

in beads.
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words. But he had not yet seen the sweet dance of the
Lord.
Prakasananda passed the whole night without a
wink of sleep. Next day in the morning too he was in
that blissful mood of mind when a disciple of his ran to
him to report that Sree Gauranga was dancing a divine
dance in the street with innumerable people around Him.

This He did on His way back from a bath in the Ganges.
Immediately got up the saint, he forgot his position, left
off his Danda and Kamandalu ( saint's staff and beggar's

bowl ) and ran to the spot like a simple child that runs
to see a curious thing. And what he saw was simply
captivating. He saw that a bright sweet youthful
Figure of about 16 was shedding forth a lustre of

love and bliss over whole multitude by His hea-
the
venly dance ; His eyes were beaming with love ; His

sweet smile was winning all hearts ; a wave of beauty
played on every part of His limbs. For some time he
stood still drinking of the sweet nectar of that divine
Beauty. He lost all control over himself. In the overflow

of his divine delight all his limbs began to wave and at
last he joined in the dance with others.

The Lord was in the centre. The sannyasis were
around Him, and all other people formed the outer circle.
They were all dancing with uplifted arms. Their eyes

beaming with divine joy were all turned to the sweetest
and most delightful Figure of their most beloved Lord.
Some eyes were shedding blissful tears. They were all
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singing aloud with The Lord the sweet Name of Hari.

The strokes of their feet shook the earth, the loud sound
of Haribol uttered all at once from thousands of throats
rent the sky and resounded all quarters. A wave of delight
passed over the whole of Benares. They had heard the
name of Hari many a time and on many an occasion be-
fore. They themselves too took the name of Hari now
and then. But they never felt such superior power,
such supreme delight, such mighty attraction, such hea-
venly bliss, such sacred thrill of charm. Crowds gathered

more and more and all electrified they joined in the
dance. They that they were being translated to

all felt
some brighter world. Such divine dance was a sight for

the gods to see. Having thus infused a new spirit into
the hearts of all, Sree Gauranga stopped kirtan and

went to the house of that blessed bhakta Tapan
Misra.
The Lord was to leave for Puri the next day.
Alone at night the savant went to The Lord and
most earnestly entreated Him to permit him to go
with Him that the Saraswati might pass the rest of his
life at His lotus feet; for he said, "Oh my gracious Lord!

Thou art The Bliss of my life. I wouid rather die this
moment than bear Thy separation." The Lord consoled

him and said, "\ desire that thou livest at the Holy
Brindavan, and that is the fit place for thee. Rest assu-
red, I shall ever be with thee there."

The words of The Lord consoled him and cheered
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him up and from this day forward he went by the name

of Prabodhananda.
The Lord went to Puri and the savant to Brindavan
where he passed his days in happy communion with The
Lord.
Benares now became a second Nadia and every
house was resounded with the holy kirtan.
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Adoration.
1. I with all bow down to Sree

my disciples
Gauranga. He is All Spirit. He came down to Navadvip

the Highest Heaven on earth. He is the greatest of all
Incarnations. He is most wonderfully generons to em-
brace all. He transcends all bounds in His grace. The
object of His Incarnation is to b'.ess all His beings with
the pure & sweet nectar bliss of His love and show the
way of worship with love by Himself worshipping God
Krishna with love as an Ideal Bhakta.
2. I bow down to The Lord Who is of unspeaka-
ble glory. Being graced by His divine nectar of love a
man feels such an ecstacy of delight that he dances, sings
aloud, and sometims rolls ow the ground, although such a

man was never before in touch with religion, nay, was ever
and although he formerly never came

given to irreiigion, in
contact with any holy man.

3. I bow down to Sree Gauranga. It is He
Who by His coming down to the earth has revealed the
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mystery of Divine Love by the very utterance of His

Name. This love was unattained by those that were given
to Karma or Yoga, and it was beyond the reach of pen-
ance, meditation, renunciation of or indifference to the
world, mere knowledge of the attributes of God, nay,

it was not attained by any amount of adoration of God
or even by the worship of Krishna.
4. bow down to The Gracious
I Lord Sree
Chaitanya. !t is He alone Who is able to endow with the

truest Love, all that see him, or touch him, or sing His
Name, or think of Him or bow down to Him or revere
Him from a distance.
5. 1 with all my disciples bow down to Gouranga
and Gouranga alone. Whoever is enriched with His look
of Grace, shuns Kaibalya ( i. e. merging of the human
soul in the Divine in salvation ) as hell, avoids heaven as
an imaginary thing, upon senses as venomous
looks
snakes with their fangs of venom drawn out, considers
the rank of king of gods as insignificant as that of a
worm and finds the universe full of bliss.
6. I with all my disciples bow down to Gaur

Chandra. By drinking of the bright, wonderful and
blissful nectar of love trickling out of His lotus feet all the
bhaktas ( i. e. devotees ), who are revered even by the

gods, feel such an ecstacy of maddening delight, that they
smile at Brahma, Vishnu & Siva (the Creative, Protective
and Destructive powers of God ), do not hold the great
Vaishnavas in very high esteem, and pity the sages
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absorbed in Yoga ( for none of these taste of the nectar

of Love as they do not worship Sree Gauranga ).
7. I with all my disciples bow down to the Holy
Figure of Chaitanya in Whom has God Incarnated. He

is the greatest of incarnations, as He has
all revealed the
brightest path of bhakti and prem, and, in compari-

son with this work of His, all the works of other incarn-
ations, such as, the slaughter of demons, the revelation
of the path of Yoga, the creation of the world, the
raising of the earth from beneath the flood of water and

so on, are all cast into shade.
Prostration.
8. bow to Chaitanya Chandra.

I The glow of
His face surpasses that of crores of moons taken to-
gether. He is the eternal source of all bliss of love. His

Smile surpasses the beauty of the beam of the most
beautiful moon.
9. I bow again and again to Chaitanya Chandra
Who is the source of all the good of the world. Devo-
tion to His lotus feet blesses a man with prem ( love )
which is the highest end of human life.
10. I adore Chaitanya Chandra. He is the Super-

human Bliss Personified, and is the Greatest of all In-
carnations that came down to the world for the good of
mankind. His eyes are as wide as the petals of lotus.
He dispels all the evils of the universe by the loud, madden-

ing and blissful sound of 'Hari' 'Hari' in His Kirtan with
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His uplifted arms of gloden hue and by the charming

movements of His feet in His divine dance when His
body becomes beautifully restless.
11. I bow again and again to Chaitanya Chandra.
He is the giver of the sweetest nectar of love. He is
attractive to all by the golden glow of His divine beauty.

He has taken the human form to 60 His Leela.
blissful
12. ! with the utmost wonder adore Gaur Hari.

He appears in the disguise of a Sanyasi indeed, but, in
fact, the glow of his body gives forth numerous

oceans, as it were, of nectar of sweet beauty. The tor-
rents of His tears show that His eyes are, as it were, nu-
merous new clouds. The wealth of His love throws
numerous heavens in the background.
Benediction.
13. Sree Radha and Krishna are united in the person
of Sree Gauranga. The glowing hue of His body is far

more beautiful than the pollens of the blossomed golden
lotus. His shoulders are like those of a lion. His body

shows wonderful expressions of intense delight that He
inwardly enjoys out of prem, the mystery or which
even the sages cannot explore. His lips shine with the
sweetest of the sweet smile. May this Holy Figure of

The Lord save you all from all evils of the baneful world.
14. The Lord at the sight of the newly formed
mad alter Krishna. Seeing the feather of a
clonus gets
pea-cock He shakes. At the sight of the Gunja seeds

Sree Chaitanyaghandramrita.
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He loses all consciousness, ( for, the colour of Krishna is
like that of new clouds pea-cock's ; Krishna put on

feather on his coronet and the garland of Gunja seeds
round His neck ; and all this reminded Him of Krishna ).

He startles to see the youthful figure of Krishna when His
body puts on a very wonderfully beautiful appearance.
May this Golden Figure of Gauranga impart a new life
and spirit to you all.
15. Sree Gauranga, the Son of Sachee,is the ocean

of kindness. He puts on a cloth, the colour of which is
light red like that of the evening sun. The great bright
halo round His body emits nectar of love. He is God
Himself. He
most perfect Incarnation and all
is the
incarnations came from Him. He is ever associated with
His bliss-giving power incarnated in Vishnupriya. May
this Lord with all His glory shine in the firmament of
your heart like the full moonvand dispel the darkness of
ignorance by shedding the lustre of love.

16. To ascertain the number in counting the names
'Hare' 'Krishna' which He has revealed for the good
of mankind, The Lord ties knots in the cloth in his loins,
while His hands shake out of extreme prem and His

face is bathed in tears. As such, He goes to the temple
to see Jagannath Who is His own Image. Thus He
spreads delight to all that have true eyes to see with.
May this Golden Figure of The Lord save you all by

attracting you to His lotus feet.
17. The bright lustre of Chaitanya Chandra all at
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once removes altogether all the inward darkness of the
whole world. It ever swells by force the ocean of love

and bliss. It cools the world that ever suffers much from
various kinds of afflictions. May this lustre of The Lord
always shine in the hearts of you all.
The Euiogium of the devotees of
Gauranga.
18. The devotees of Gauranga happily play about
in the bright path of bhakti and prem which was
unknown to the sages and
godly persons before
other
the advent of The Lord to the world, to which none had
any access in spite of their acute intellect, which even the
Sage Suka ( the expounder of the Bhagavat ) did not
know and which was not kindly revealed even by Krishna
Himself
19. So long as people are not favoured with the
kind look of those that are devoted to the lotus feet of
Sree Chaitanya, they speak of Brahma, The Great
Being ; the way that speaks of the merging of the human

soul with the divine does not appear to be unwelcome to
them ; the Vedic rites do not appear to be means of
bondage to the world, and so long the people are en-
grossed in useless controversy over the outside and imma-

terial things of various shastras.
20. In whom else such firm devotion to God, such
abhorrence of mundane things like hell, such waves of
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superior humility, such superhuman spirit, and such firm
attachment to the path of bhakti & prem, can be

seen as is seen in the adherents of Gauranga ?
21. He, who has once seen the most beautiful face
of Sree Gauranga beaming with supreme love and shining
with tearful eyes like glowing blossomed lotus, is ever so
entranced in ecstatic joy of love that every moment gives
fresh and fresh bliss, that he never desires to give up the
feet of Gauranga which are the source of vast oceans, as
it were, swollen with supernatural beauty.
22. Unless a man takes to the feet of a devotee of
Gauranga, he cannot have an idea even of Brindavan,

the highest region of love, which is unexplored by
the Vedas, though he may strictly follow the four stages
of life, or worship Vishnu, or travel over holy places, or
he may minutely study the Vedas.
23. Even the best thing, that may be attained by
churning, to the utmost power, the boundless ocean of
nectar, will be most unwelcome like poison to those that
receive light from the lustre of the feet of Gauranga who

is Love Incarnate.
24. These are the great virtues of the devotees of
Gauranga
— they possess much more humility than a
straw, they have a naturally beautiful and attractive
feature, their words are sweet as nectar, they despise

sordid things of the world, and they are absorbed in the
love of God.
25. However much one may take to the feet of
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thousands of well-known preceptors, however much one

may study the Vedas and other shastras, the mystery of
love is easily attainable to those only who are blessed
with the gracious look of Sree Chaitanya.
26. However much one may practise the strictest
penance, or have a control over the senses or one may

pass a rigid life like a puritan, however much one may
be engrossed in the meditation of the unity of the human
soul with the divine, or one may be firmly devoted to
Vishnu, none will possess the infinitesimal part of the
natural virtues possessed by those who are illumined with
the bright bliss of love of the persons who worship

Gauranga and His Divine Consort Vishnupriya Who is
the bliss-giving power of The Lord.

27. The followers of Sree Gauranga are so much
overpowered with a superior feeling of delight that they
have all joined in His divine dance. The bhaktas like
Murari Gupta and others in their highest delight dance to
think that they can leap across the vast ocean and jump
over the high mountains of great obstacles in the way of

attainment of God Who is Beauty, Bliss and Love. The
bhaktas like Sribas and others while dancing in the
greatest glee pity the lots of godsand all beings that

take pride in their display of power, for, they think, that
they are deprived of the fortune of dancing with The

Lord. And the bhaktas like Adwaita in the exube-
rance of their delight dance to think that such delight
pervades the whole universe.

28. When Sree Gauranga plays about in His

divine dance displaying His greatest treasure of bhakti
& prem own grace,
out of His the people being free
from malice have come to know of the sweetnes: of the
close relationship of love between God and man which

none in the world had or has or will have any chance of
knowing without the grace of The Lord.

29. Oh ! who is so highly fortunate as to bring before
my eyes Sree Gauranga the Son of Sachee, Whose true

attributes even the essence of all the Vedas cannot
fuily ascertain and Who humbles down the pride of the
gods and sages that being unaware of His lotus feet
consider themselves very great.

30. Sree Gauranga is God Himself. Most
wonderfully does He show His God-Power, so
that, whoever resigns himself to Him has all his desires
fulfilled, nay, he attains prem, the highest end of human

life, without doing any penance or going through any
rituals.
The misfortune of those that are averse

to Sree Gauranga.
31. One may have performed innumerable religious
rites or one may be whole heartedly devoted to Hari, but
if he does not worship Sree Gauranga, he cannot be
considered to be blessed, for he dees not enjoy the bliss
of prem the greatest treasure that man should have
in life.
32. Unfortunate are they who feel self compla-

cence to think and utter that they are Brahma. Unfortu-
nate are they who are given to rituals and are thus turned
to matter. Unfortunate are they who practise strict but
queer penance, such as, exposure to the heat ofthesunand

fire in summer, to excessive cold even by remaining im-
merged in water in winter, to constant torrents of rain in
the rains, abstinence from food, holding of stools & urine
without passing them as nature requires and so on. Un-

fortunate are thev who hold a check over the senses and
have thereby to think of the bitterness of the world and
of the baneful effect of the gratifkaticn of the senses,
that is, who thereby have to look upon the dark side of the
world. I
pity the lots of these beasts of men, for gross
matter always arises in their minds ; and such men do net
enjoy the least of beauty and bliss attained from a firm
devotion to Sree Gauranga.
33. Oh ye learned men ! As it is impossible for a
seed to sprout on a stone though it be drenched all over
with nectar ; as the tail of a dog never gets straight
however much it may be spread ; as the moon cannot be
reached by stretching out the hands ; so no one can
have the taste of the fountain of bliss of prem without
the grace of Gauranga, though he may perform all the
rites and ceremonies or follow any kind of rigid path

that the shastras may prescribe.
34. How poor is he and pitiable is his lot who
remains poor without enriching himself with the gems
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revealed to all with the swelling of the ocean of prem

at the Descent of Sree Gauranga.
35. How sadly plunged are they in the ocean of
miseries who do not dive into the ocean of prem widely
spread at the Descent of Sree Gauranga.
36. How wretched is he who is so unfortunate as
not to taste of the nectar bliss out of the ocean of nectar
bliss of the highest love spread far and wide at the revela-
tion of Sree Gauranga.
37. How sadly do they wander about in vain in
the world who do not look upon Sree Gauranga as God
Himself, for, however learned and versed in all the shastras
they may be, they only look upon the material side of the
world.
38. How impossible it is for him to attain true
bhakti who has not seen or realised Sree Gauranga

even for once Who most wonderfully loses all control
over His limbs out of maddening delight while enjoying
the, sweetness of His own names 'Hare' "Krishna" etc.

and Who again and again exhorts all the people to sing
the glory of Krishna.
—The gems are the different forms of worshipping

Note:
God with love — such as — Dasya, Sakhya, Batsalya and Madhur
i. e., loving God as the servant loves his master, or as the friend
loves his friend, or as the parent loves the son, or as the wife
loves her husband. These four forms are attainable by
taking the names Hare, Krishna~etc. and by staunch devotion to
the Lord Sree Gauranga.

39. Why should not sprout come out without a

seed ? Why a man born blind should not see ? And
why should not a man devoid of legs ascend the summit
of a high mountain, if it be possible for a men, turned
from Sree Gauranga Who is the store- house, as it were,
of the wonderful treasure of the nectar of love, to get the
least of the highest bliss of love ?
40. Stupid, nay, the beast of a man must he be
whose mind is not Gauranga The Great God
turned to
Himself Who all on a sudden endows with the most won-
derful bliss of love the fortunate followers and wor-
shippers of Radha Govinda by the uncommon spread of
the extreme delight arising out of love with which the
Lord does His Lee a. I
41. O God How much

!
given to gross matter
are they who do not look upon Sree Gauranga as Gcd,
although they have seen times without number how num-
erous bhaktas have experienced the great superior
power of their Lord,and although they have found that

such great mysterious power is possible in none else
except in God and such power cannot be found in any

of the numerous Avatars ( Incarnatoins ) of God as
described in the various shastras.
42. Oh God ! The world is surely covered with

a shade of illusion and it must have come down to a
state of atheism if Sree Gauranga be not looked upon
as God ; for, though He is not revealed by the Vedas He
has come down of Himself out of His grace and it is He
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by Whose kind look al! His beings get such supreme bliss
of love that they set at naught all kinds of salvation which
may be the outcome of a desire to escape from misery.

43. Useless is the high pedigree, useless is the
power of eloquence, useless is the renown, vain is the study,

vain is the beautiful appearance or young age, vain is the
wealth that one may have, useless is the descent in a
Erahman race and useless is the ascetic stage ot life, if
the man possessing any or all of these does not worship

Sree Gauranga, The Lord of the Go pees, The Avatar
of the Kali age.
44. How can he, who is a stranger to piety, love

Sree Gauranga Whose followers like Bakreswar and
others are so much overpowered with an exuberance of
feeling of bliss of love that even those that live in the
higher plane of heaven feel a thrill of joy to see them ?

45. Oh ! Alas ! Demons of men muest they be
who out of hard heart on account of their vain argumen-
tative disposition do not greatly revere The Lord Sree
Gauranga Who is Perfect Bliss personified and from

Whom all the Avatars come and Who, by His unspeak-
able grace and by speaking with His lips beaming with
smile and also by a kind look from a distance with His
eyes beaming with affection, gives the fountain of bliss of

love.
Speaking of the sad misfortune of those that are

averse to Sree Gauranga, Sarswati Prabodhananda ieels
such an intense humiiitv that he thinks himself devoid of

a Sree Chaitanyachandramrita.
all bliss of worshipping The Lord. And so he speaks

out his mind.
46. How pitiably am f
deprived ! Oh !
very
surely am I
deprived. The whole world is immersed in
the prem of Gauranga 5 but a single drop of that

nectar of prem has not been to my lot.
47. Who in this world has not attained the
summum bonum of life and that too most easily when

the earth has been touched by the dust of the lotus feet
of Gauranga ? But, alas ! useless has been my life, all
my learning has been in vain, and my Sannyas or renun- ,
elation of the world has been for nothing, for, owing to

my continued misfortune I have not got the least of that
prem which is the only cr\6 of human life.
48. What a wonder ! the vast ocean of the
Grace of Gaur Chandra is swollen and has flooded the
earth ; but, unfortunate as !

am, the least drop of it has
not touched me.
49. The age of Kali is like Death, for it brings
irreligion and horror the senses are like powerful enemies,
;
the path of bhakti 6° prem is obstructed in this age

with numerous thistles of Karma ( rituals ), jnana ( the
vain deceptive consciousness of the union of c^o

with Brahma ) vain reasoning 5° so on. Oh my Lord
Sree Gauranga Chandra ! I am undone ! What shail I
do ?Where shall I
go if Thou dost not show fhy
mercy to me now.
50. I need not worry over the time that is uselessly
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spent, for I have not seen the Lord of t|iat mysterious

power, nor have I tasted of the nectar of bliss by wor-
shipping the lotus feet of The Lord. This is my prayer
now may be blessed with the company
that I of those
bhaktas who are wholeheartedly devoted to Sree
Gauranga and who are the crnamznts as it were of the

world.
51. In this age of Kali who except Gauranga

will be my Friend to raise me from my fall, for I am given
to numerous Karmas or rites, tightly bound up with the
chain of most dreadful desires, my mind is ever distressed,
and i am influenced in my suroundings by evil minde J
people.
52. Oh ! Alas ! what have I done so long 1 all the
numerous attempts and practices made to reach God I
have been futile like seeds in a barren land, so, now, with
all my heart & soul I take to the feet of Sree Gaurchandra
which have a wonderful virtue of giving rise to bhakti
even in a barren mind.
53. Oh ! Aias ! How will the Kalpa creeper o\

pure bhakti sprout forth in my barren mind But !
there is one thing most hopeful in my mind that he who

takes the name of Gaurancja has no cause of grief or
sorrow.
54. Oh !
my Lord, Sree Gauranga Chandra I
Give me shelter at Thy feet ? I am helpless, for, I am

falien in the ocean of miseries of the world, ! am about
16 Sree Chaitanyachandramrita,
to be devoured by the snakes and crocodiles of passions,

and again I am tied with a chain of desires.
55. Oh Chaitanya Chandra ! Thou art The Lord
of the wealth of love which is beyond the reach of know-
ledge. If Thou dost cast gracious glance at me, the
charming path of bhakti will not be far from us though
it was not so easily accessible to Siva, Suka, Llddhav,
Narada 6° others.
56. Oh Lord ! In what other Avatar can such

unrestricted mercy, such wonderful display of prem,
and such parental affection can be seen as in Thee- The
great Avatar of Gauranga.
Unflinching devotion to the Adored.

57. Oh my stupid mind
Accept Sree Gauranga !
as God Incarnate and worship Him. It is He Who by

His own splendour of love has attracted the world to the
blissful lotus feet of Krishna and He it is whose myste-
ries none of the Srutis can unravel.
58. Let him, who likes, worship Krishna and follow
the different ways of bhakti, such as, hearing and
singing Kirtan, thinking of his beauty, resignation to Him
and so on, for the attainment of the end of life, but the
only object of my worship is Sree Gauranga Who is the

Infinite ocean of the nectar of love ( prem ) and Who
has revealed the great mystery of prem ( love ) that
remained un revealed so long.

59. Let those, that expect worldly wealth, fulfil-
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ment of wordly desires or even emancipation, worship The

Great God with all His resplendent power. Let people by
giving up all other forms of worship do Dasya- bhakti

to Kaishna ( i. e. serve Krishna as a devoted servant does
his master ). But my mind is tempted to attain that
unspeakable mystery of love which none of the above

can get. So do I take to the feet of Chaitanya Chandra.
60. Ah ! How blessed I am that the most power-
ful Thief Sree Gauranga has stolen away all my firm
adherence to social and vedic rites, all the shame I felt at
loud laughter, singing aloud, and happy dance consequent

on Kirtan and also all I did from a natural disposition for
the sustenance of body and life.
61. This Lord Sree Gauranga, the glow of Whose
beauty is like that of the inmost part of a golden plantain
tree, has all on a sudden firmly fixed my mind to His feet
by pouring forth from His eyes beaming with mercy

and affection a number of oceans of nectar love that
ever gives fresh, bright, sweet 6° most intense bliss.
62. How sweetly doth my mind yearn after Nava-

dwip where out of His infinite grace came down Sree
Gauranga The Lord Himself Who is the highest Love
and Bliss and Beauty Incarnate and Whose charming hue
is like that of pure gold, where there is a fountain of
bliss of bhakti in every house, and which place (Nava-
dwip) is far more sweet 6° beautiful than even Baikuntha
itself.
63. Let the Shastras say whatever they like ; let

the logicians or sophists argue in whatever way they
please ; the nectar of the lotus feet of Sree Gauranga

sustains my life.
64. Even if all the eight supernatural powers that
are acquirable by practising severe austerites (9 that are
difficult of attainment, come within my reach very easily ;
even if gods themselves come down to serve me

the :
nay, even if this body of mine be transformed into a four

armed deity ; my mind does not in the least waner from
the feet of Gaur Chandra.
65. I rather welcome to live in the midst of fear-
ful flames all around me than live anywhere in the com-

pany of those that turn away from the lotus feet of
Gauranga. If my mind be illumined with the least of the

lusture of the feet of Gauranga, it does not hanker after
Baikuntha, even though it may come of itself.
66. Niether world-wide fame, nor any of the eight
supernatural powers that may be attractive to others, nor

a four-armed body coveted by many by the worship
of Vishnu is acceptable to me save and except firm de-
votion to Gauranga & His Divine Consort Vishnupriya.
67. Most humbly do I
pray that this my life may
pass away while uttering the names such as, Oh Chaitanya !
Oh Thou Gracious Lord ! Oh Thou most Beautiful !
Oh Thou Love Incarnate ! Oh Thou The Life (? Soul of
all the beings ! Oh Thou Beauty Incarnate ! Oh

Gouranga ! Oh Thou Ocean of all virtues and of all
good ! Oh Thou Bliss Incarnate ! Oh Thou Lever of

Sree Chaitanyachandramrita. 19
Thy own names ! Oh the Saviour of the fallen ! and

so on.
68. Oh Lord ! when shall I be most sincere by
nature in my devotion to Thee Who art the giver of the
highest bliss of love and Who art the life of the
bhaktas that worship with love ! And when shall my

mind be all on a sudden illumined with the lustre of the
gem of love of Sree Radha by virtue of the superior
power of that sincere devotion to Thee !
69. The only object of my meditation is Sree
Gauranga the Perfect Embodiment of all efFulgence and

the Great Repository of mercy, Who
most perfectly is
self-contained in the enjoyment of His Own bliss and

thus distributes bliss to all, Who constantly utters the
names Hare-Krishna etc. His own names, Whose golden

hue is
brighter than the purest gold and on Whose breast
shines the garland of blossomed damanaka flowers.
70. May I ever keep in my mind Sree Gauranga Who

is the highest Ideal of Bairagya ( aloofness from the
world of matter ), Whose eyes are riveted to .the bright
face of Jagannath in the temple at Nilachal (Puri) just as
bees are firmly attached to the lotus, Whose love (prem)
gives rise to high waves of maddening bliss to flood all
around Him and Whose supreme beauty attracts all
females.
71. May I be absorbed in the meditation of Gaur

Hari with His purple dress on, with His sacred body
beautified with hairs standing on end out of great
emotion of love and ornamented with drops of tears, more

beautiful than the beautiful pearls, falling from His eyes
that surpass the lotus in beauty.
72. I am eagerly waiting for the day when, in

consequence of my meditation, shall appear in my mind
the feet of Gaur-Hari Whose beauty stupefies Cupid even,
Whose sanctity far surpasses the sacredness of the waters
of the Ganges, Whose soothing coolness is far superior
to that of the moon, Whose charming sweetness throws
in the background the finest nectar, Whose superior
bounty belittles the bounty of Kalpa tree and Whose

all-embracing affection is more blissful than the affection
of a mother.
73. Most Gracious is Sree Gauranga ! He de-
world by giving again and again the nectar of
lights the
His sweetest of the sweet prem (love). How beauti-

ful He looks with purple cloth in his loins. The glow of
His beauty surpasses that of thousands of lightning all
taken together. May This Lord be the only object of
my love.
74. When, out of good fortune dawning upon me

as a result of thousands of births, should be placed in
my heart the feet of Sree Gauranga, Whose beauty far

excels the beauty of thousands of Cupids, Whose sweet
beauty of the face casts thousands of autumnal full
moons into shade and Whose superior bounty makes

the bounty of thousands of Kalpa tree quite insignifi-
cant ?
75. The moon-beam removes the outer darkness

of the world for the time being, but the lustre of Sree
Gauranga all on a sudden drives off for ever all the dark-
ness of the mind of the whole world, the former swells the
ordinary ocean for a while, while the latter always swells

up by force the ocean of the bliss of love the former ;
cools at night the outside world heated by the rays of

the sun, while the latter cools day and night the inner as
well as the outer world that groans painfully under various
troubles. May such lustre of Sree Gauranga illumine all
our hearts.
76. The Body of Sree Gauranga sometimes be-
comes lean and sometimes plump, Oh now tears of !
bliss are seen in His eyes, and now His face beams with
smile. Once the Body becomes cool and the next
moment hot like fire. Sometimes He runs and again

stops and remains motionless. Ah Sometimes He
!
speaks much and the next moment He remains speechless.
May such Sree Gauranga shine in my heart !
77. Sree Gauranga is The Lord of lords. He is
allSupreme. So He makes no distinction between the
deserving and the undeserving. He does not care to
determine who is the worthy object of mercy and who

not. Nor does He wait for the time. But He favours
all with the bliss of bhakti and prem that is hard to

be attained by falling prostrate before the image of a
god or evei by any form of meditation. Such Gauranga
WhD is God Hiimelf is the highest object of my worship.
78. I take to the feet o\ Sree Gauranga Who has
graciously delivered the most sinful, the low-born, the
ill-natured, the most wicked, the vilest chandalas, those

that are always addicted to filthy desires, those that are
born in an atmosphere of irreligion and the people that
have lost their sense by evil company.
79. Sree Gauranga is the onlyObject of my worship.
He, having left the beautiful Brindavan on the banks of
the Holy Jamuna, does His Sweet Lee! a in the flower
garden on the sea-shore at Puri. He has given up His

saffron cloth and has put on purple cloth instead.
Having concealed the sapphire hue of His body He has

now revealed Himself in golden hue.
Homily
or
Exhortation to the people
for
Worshipping Sree Gauranga.

SO. Oh ye ignorant people Seek out the path
!
of bhakti and prem. It was not revealed through

the Vedas. Sages never found out this path and it
was beyond their reach before. If you are diffident of

the attainment of this path as it is so difficult to be attain-
ed,^! would appeal to you to give up all other paths and

take to the feet of Sree Gauranga.
81. Oh ye people ! Fall prostrate at the feet of
Gauranga. He is the G/eat God. His golden beauty

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attracts all hearts. He looks beautiful with His cloth on

the colour of which is like that of the pollens of a
newly blossomed lotus. He holds up His folded hands

above His head and His tender cheecks are bathed in
tears rolling down from His eyes, when He is in an
ecstacy of bhakti and prem.
82. Oh ye brethren Sing ye aloud, if you like,
!
the very powerful names of Krishna, The Lord of Gokul ;

or, you may, if you please, think of His sweet Divine
beauty that does good to the world ; but there is not the
least chance of your being drenched in the nectar bliss of
prem, you are enlightened with

unless the kind look of
Sree Gauranga, The Lord of lords.
83. Oh ye people ! The bhaktas of Sree
Gauranga are so much overwhelmed with the ecstatic de-
light of divine love, that, they smile to see all your atte-
mpts in other paths in order to attain that delight ; so,
please do not all of a sudden follow any other path. I
you the great secret

tell
— Sree
Gauranga is The Great
Lord of that bliss of love which is so highly spoken of in
the Vedas.
84. Oh ye insensate people Have you ! not
heard of Gaur Hari ? Why then should you moan that
you have not come across the true spiritual guide from
whom you may know of the blissful path of worshipping
Sree Krishna, which brings aversion to the path of
J nana ( i. e. the consciousness of the absolute dis-
appearance of the human soul in the divine ). And how

is it
you cannot determine
that Whom you should betake
yourselves to ?
85. Oh ye people ! Give up your vain attach-

all
ment to Karma ( rites and ceremonies ) ; don't allow at

any moment the least of the controversy over the distinc-
tion between spirit and matter to reach even the precincts
of your ears ; don't have any attachment to your mortal
frame or anything connected with it. By the Grace of
Gauranga you will come by the sweetest and most won-
derful prem, the end of all endj of human life.
86. Look upon the females with awe, and avoid

them as you do a tig:e;s lock upon the short-lived
;
heaven with contempt, vain is the practice of Yoga as
dictated in the shastras Ah ! Thrice useless is wander-
ing about in the holy places as a pilgrim. Acquire the
treasure of loveby worshipping Sree Gauranga Who in
the guise of a San nays in dances on the sea-shore at
Puri out of the intense delight of His Own.

87. Oh ye brethren You I desire to plunder the
treasure of prem by devotion to the lotus feet of Sree

Krishna !
Why should you then for nothing seek out the
path of Yoga, access to which is very difficult. If you

cherish the hope of attaining the fountain head of prem
which is unknown even to Siva and Brahma, be
then firmly attached to the Great Lord Sree Gauranga
Whose boundless glory none can gauge.
88. The more a man of piety is devoted to Sree

Gauranga, the more is he blessed with the prem of

Sree Radha.
89. Oh ye people ! If you fully appreciate the
real truth of all the Shastras, do ye all, in this age of
Kali, take to the lotus feet of Sree Gauranga, meditate
Him and sing His glory with all your heart, out of love
and highest delight, for, He is adored by Siva and
Brahma, and, He is the Source of the boundless
ocean of the most blissful mystery of the purest love.
90. Oh ye pious men ! with straws in my teeth,*
by falling at your feet, and with all the humble entreaties
that I can command, I

request you you be de-
all that
voutly attached to the feet of Gauranga Chandra after
giving away all other forms of worship.

91. Neither salvation nor bhakti in various
other forms is to be coveted, and these are not very rare

things. But the rarest and the most coveted thing is the
Grace of Sree Gauranga.
92. May ye a!! take to the lotus feet of
Sree Gauranga 1
you will then attain perfection by
getting the highest bliss of bhakti and prem, and you
will be able to delight the three worlds by your sweet
disposition, blessed fortune, kindness, forbearance and
many other virtues of the kind.
93. If' you have a mind to cross the ocean of life,
if you desire to be drenched in the nectar bliss of
This is a sign of great humility.

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Sankirtan, if you want that all the faculties of your

mind swim delightfully in the ocean of love, be devoted
to the feet of Gauranga.
94 True knowledge, absolute freedom from sen-

sual pleasures, blissful bhakti can never be attained in
any way other than staunch devotion to the lotus feet of

Sree Gauranga
95 If the people do not worship Sree Gauranga !
Who is God Himself and Who is worshipped even by

the greatest of gods, the world becomes void of all sense
and death pervades everywhere.

96. Not to speak of the worm of an ordinary
mortal king, even Indra himself the king of the gods
appears like a humble servant to him who cherishes a
hope for the attainment of the feet of Sree Gauranga,

The Lord of lords,
97. What is the necessity for a man to beg at the
door of a king, if he hopes to get at Sree Gauranga.

What fool is there to care for silver if he gets the
philosophers' stone !
98. Many are the people who pass years in a
in the caves of mountains in the meditation

sitting posture
of the halo of God 5 others there are whoare absorbed in
the practice of Yoga * there are many who have attained
the eight supernatural powers ; and many are there, who,
out of vain pedantry, boastfully hold controversy over
the different interpretations of the shastras. But who

is there in the world that dances in the highest glee of
love save and except those that are favoured with the
Grace of Gauranga !
99. Sree Gauranga The Great be propitious to

If
me, I don't care for the piety attained by living at Kasi
( Benares ), nor do I care to go to Gaya, the very sal-
vation even appears to me to be quite an insignificant
thing to be avoided like a cockle. Why then should I
talk of any other topic ! I have not the least fear from
the great Rauraba hell, not to speak of any apprehen-
sion from wife and children.
The Super-Excellence
of
Sree Gauranga.
100. Glory to Sree Gauranga ! How tender-
hearted is He though He possesses the prowess of a young
lion ! How sweet is the glow of his beauty like that of
a golden sprout And how vastly doth
! the ocean of
His love flood all the worlds !
101. Glory to the Lord Sree Gauranga ! He ex-

cels numberless Cupids in beauty, surpasses innumerable
moons in delighting all hearts, supercedes all mothers in
maternal affection, defeats numerous oceans in serenity,

transcends the sweetest of nectar in sweetness, belittles
millions of Kalpa trees ( wish-yielding trees ) in bounti-

fulness, and He reveals wonder of all wonders in respect
of His Lov2
102. All glory to The Lord Sree Gauranga He !
reveals His most admirable greatness to His bhaktas

They, being overwhelmed with a single wave of love
arising out of the worship of His lotus feet and being

possessed with the highest love, dance maddening de-
in
light which strikes even Siva, Brahma and others

with great wonder.
T03. Greatest glory be to Gauranga, the Son of
Shachee and the Consort of Vishnupriya His shout is I
like the loud roar of millions of mad lions. His brilliance
is like that of millions of suns, but at the same time much

cooler than millions of rnoons. His gait surpasses that of
millions of mad elephants. His very Name dispels milli-

ons of sins. He is the Lord of millions of Brahma
and other gods. He is the Spirit of all spirit revealed
in Human Shape.
104. May the Great Beautiful Illuminating Light

of Navadwip be ever glorious ! This Light ever shines
by the constant supply of oil of affection. This Light
dispels the inner darkness of caves of hearts, reveals
wonderful power, and all on a sudden illumines the
way to God, which was formerly long and distant, soli-
tary, full of thorns and brambles and hence inaccessible,
which made people wander about for nothing, but has
now become short, charming, full of associates and help-

mates, pleasant and most blissful.
105. This wonderful Light, the source of all the
luminaries of heaven, ever shines in this world out of

graciousness, and with wick of

supreme affection
the
sheds forth, all around, divine golden lustre which is most
beautifully sweet, dispels both the outer and the inner
darkness, and burns the insects of sophists even from a
distance, but which is more pleasant and soothing than

the beams of millions of moons.
106 How beautifully shines Gaur Hari, when He,
being intoxicated with the highest love of His Own,
sometimes moves on gently, sometimes echoes all quar-
ters with loud shout, sometimes light; up the sky with
flashes of light as He laughs aloud again and again, and
sometimes quakes with al! His limbs like leaves gently
moving with the wind.
107. How gloriously doth shine Sree Gauranga
the son of Shachee, the most fortunate of womankind !
He is all pure. How beautifully doth He dance,atthe sight

of which all impurity and ail insincerity flee away ! He
showers the nectar of the highest love that removes all
the troubles that flesh is heir to. It is Bhaktas alone
that taste of the sweetness of devotion to His feet.
108. How wonderfully beautiful doth Gauranga

look when He, being deep immersed in the thought of
separation from Krishna like Sree Radha, drenches His

pale cheeks with tears streaming from His eys, heaves
deep sighs moment after moment, and sometimes wails

aloud, and most piteously gives out the sounds like 'Ah' !
'Alas !' and so on.

109. How divinely sweet doth Sree Gauranga
look with the glow of His beauty like that of the purest
as Child Krishna, and
gold, when He does His Leela
when again and again He appears as Radha and Krishna
— two in the same Person !
The Greatness of the Avatar

of
Sree Gauranga.
110. Sree Gauranga is my only Resort. At His
descent to the earth, the Sweet Names of God have
allon a sudden been revealed to the corporeal beings who
were immersed in the deepest abyss of sin, and, the heart,
that was as hard as thunder, has become soft and
tender.
111. Sree Gauranga is Kindness incarnate. At

His descent people have given up all forms of Yoga,
meditation, penance, attempts at renunciation of wordly
things and at control of the senses ; they have given up
all the Vedic rites and why to speak of their aversion
;
to forbidden acts, they are enjoying the highest bliss of
love, the Supreme end oi human life.
112. How wonderful is the power of Sree Gau-

ranga that at His descent to the earth, those, that were
restless by falling into the whirlpool of Karma ( i. e.
rites and ceremonies and outer formalities of religion ),
have got perfect rest, those that were harder than the
hardest of stone have become tender, and those that

were absorbed in yoga, have given it up, and by the

grace of the Lord they all dance in divine delight.
113. At the revelation of the path of bhakti with

the descent of The Lord Gauranga, nothing eise than the
bliss of bhakti was pleasant to anybody, the people given

to the sordid worid have given up ail talk about their wives
and children, the learned have given cff all vain discu-
ssion about shastras, the yogis have been relieved of all
troubles that they voluntarily undertook by exposure of

their body to the inclements of weather, the ascetics
have given up penance, and the sages have forsaken

the path of j nan ( that is, the path that dictates the
practice of acquiring consciousness of oneness of the hu-

man soul with the divine ).
114. At the Descent of The Lord Sree Gauranga

every house has been resounded with loud shouts of
Sankirtan, every person looks beautiful with the ex-
pression of signs of prem on body, such as, hairs

his
standing on end, blissful tears and so on ; and the sweet-
est of the sweet path of prem, that was unknown to

the vedas even, has been made known to all.
115. At the Descent of Krishna in the person of

Sree Gauranga all the quarters of the world have been
all on a sudden inundated with the flood of bliss
arising out of the ocean of love, and the whole world has
been astonished to see the expression of prem unseen
and unheard of before.
116. Some there were, who were under the sway
32 Sree Chaitanyachandramkita.
of unconquerable pride in their ability in the exposition of
all the shastras ; some considered themselves fortunate in
being able to perform all the rituals and thus thought that
they were placed in a very high stage of religion ; some

took the Names of Krishna twice or thrice ; still the minds
of all these were not divested of crookedness. But now

at the appearance of Gaurchandra the bliss of prem
has been to the lot of one and ail.
117. At the coming down of Sree

Gauranga,
Whose lotus feet even the gods desire to worship, and
Whose sweet Lee a I
delights all hearts by delivering all
the humankind from the bondage of the world, the ocean

of sweet bliss and love has inundated the earth ; and,
who is there young or old, male or female, learned or
illiterate, that has not tasted of this bliss of worshipping
God with love !
118. When Sree Gauranga the most perfect Em-

bodiment of love and bliss came down to the earth,
Siva, Narad a and all the heavenly beings,

Lakshmi the goddess of fortune, Balaram the
brother of Krishna, all the Erishnies ( the people of

Brishni race where Krishna was born ), all the inhabitants
of the Holy Brlndavan

— the Gopas and the Gopees, all
came to the earth with Him.

119. When Sree Gauranga of beautiful golden hue
came down to the earth to make a free gift of His prem
to all without discriminating who deserved and who did
not, all His former bhaktas in His previous incarnations

came down to the earth to His lotus feet and enjoyed

much more bliss of prem than before.
120. Oh ! How strange ! At the descent of Sree
Gauranga to the earth with the most wonderful mystery
of His power, even the females in the zenana laugh aloud
out of ecstatic divine joy ; people, whose hearts were as
hard as stone owing to worldly attachment, have been
softened ; and even those that were dull of intellect have
been illumined with divine light to understand the true
essence of all the shastras.
121. However much the people were versed in all
the different shastras, they were ignorant of their true spirit;
they were not far-sighted and their intellect was not keen
eno.igh to turn their mind to prem or the truest end of

all ends of human life. But when Sree Gauranga
most graciousiy came down to the earth, al! the people
got an opportunity to enter into the blissiul path of

bhakti and prem which is so glaringly and most
bountifully disclosed by Him.
122. God Himself has Incarnated in Sree Gauranga
to spread the highest love, wherein centres all the Lee a I
of Radha and Krishna, and to expound and practically

demonstrate to the full realisation of the people the true
essence of the Bhagavat which has only been touched in
its outline and not in detail by Suka, the son of Vyasa, in
the chapters on the Leela of Rash in that great holy

book.
123. By the Grace of Sree Gauranga The Great
Lord some have obtained

dasya prem like Uddhaba,
some sakhya prem like Sree Dam and others,
some batsalya prem like mother yasoda, some
madhur prem like the Gopees of the Holy
Brindavan, and thus all obtained the highest treasure of
love.
124. Before Sree Gauranga came, all the great
sages promulgated and interpreted the shastras in their
own way with reasonings in their favour, and they

were not at one with one another in their views, and still
none of them had firm faith in the views they held. But
with the appearance of Sree Gauranga, Whose power
and greatness is beyond all comparison, the path of
bhakti and prem is determined by one and all to be
the only way to God, and this they have ascertained to
be the true intents of the Srutis and all the Shastras.
125. The nails of the feet of Sree Gauranga are so
many moonstones, as it were. Their lustre is most

wonderful, it swells the ocean of the purest nectar bliss
of love and this ocean immerses the whole world. This

lustre arises in my mind.
126. The sages of old might have favoured some
with deliverance by virtue of their great piety 5 and they
might have taken them to Baikuntha or heaven ; but none
has flooded the earth with the ocean of love as Sree
Gauranga has done.

127. Nobody can comprehend the playful Lee a I
of Sree Gauranga What a wonder Even the low- !

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minded man baser than a cow-slaughterer has his heart

softened by the grace of The Lord and sheds blissful tears
of love and he softens others' hearts as well ; while, the
heart of the man thoroughly given to piety or that of
the man firmly devoted to Vishnu remains as hard as
stone without His grace.

128. How infinitely deep is the heart of Sree
Gauranga ! It is simply surprising to the world. Being
possessed with Krishna, sometimes He walks on all fours
as a child, sometimes He acts as a cowboy, sometimes

He dances with various beautiful figures of His body,
and again, being possessed with Radha He piteously
wails by repeatedly uttering the Name 'Hari/
129. Not to speak of the great attractiveness of
His acting in the same Person the Lee a I of Sree
Krishna with Radha and all the Go pees out of ever-
fresh, ever-sweet, and ever-increasing love, His playful

Lee a I even as Child Krishna on the sea-shore at Puri
attracts all hearts. Such sweet and world-charming

Golden Figure of The Lord enchants my heart.
130. Prem, the highest end of human life, which

did not even reach the ears of anybody, the superior power
of the Name of Krishna, that was unknown to all, the
greatest beauty of Sree Brindavan where none had any

access, Sree Radha the highest Perfection of Beauty and
Bliss whom none ever kne"w — all these have been
revealed to the world v/ith the descent of Sree Gauranga.
— o-
Charming Beauty of the Youthful Figure

and
His ecstatic dance.
131. Sree Gauranga is The Great God Himself

He dances on the sea-shore at Puri. And what a
wonder ! He displays then His world-charming Figure
Whose conception could not be found in all the Srutis,
and such beauty is adored by Siva, Bramha, Vyasa,

and all the gods and sages. The lustre of tie wave of
the most perfect beauty, bliss and love playing en eveiy
limb of The Holy Figure charms and ilk mires all the
worlds.
#132. What a transcenc'ant beauty ccth He
display when Sree Gauranga The Ideal youth in the
middle of His teens plays in His dance singing His own

Names with silk cloth on, with a necklace shining on His
breast, ear-rings round His ears, tinkling ornaments

round His anklets^ and with His fine black glossy hair
*When Saraswati Prakasanada was blessed with the
grace of The Lord, He was to all outward appearance a

Sannyasi with His head shaved and with the purple loin cloth
on, and with no ornaments on ; but the Saraswati describes

Him as the most Beautiful Youth in the middle of His teens
with His long black glossy hair bound up in a knot entwined
with wreaths of flowers and with His limbs decorated with
ornaments. And how ? Sree Gauranga is All-Spirit, ar.d He
revealed Himself to Prakasananda as The Most Beautiful
Youth.
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bound in a knot above the head, which knot again is

encircled with a wreath of blossomed mallika flowers.
133. When Sree Gauranga being intoxicated with
His own prem makes tandava dance, all the sages
out of love appear near and sing hymns, the Siddhas
( aerial beings or angels ) cover the earth with constant
showers of flowers, the Gandharvas (music-loving
angels) sing and the gods play on Dundubhis
( kinds of musical instruments ).
134. Sree Gauranga, in Whom God hath now

Incarnated, being drenched in the nectar of His own
highest love, plays about in various ways
— sometimes
He laughs, sometimes cries, sometimes falls into a swoon,
sometimes rolls on
ground and again runs on, some-
i\\z
times dances, sometimes heaves deep sighs and sometimes

waiis aloud uttering the sounds like Ah ! Alas ! and
so on.
135. God Himself having Incarnated in Sree
Gauranga is creating in all minds an attraction to the lotus

feet of Sree Radha by Himself playing on the Sea-shore
the part of Sree Radha in her extreme pangs of separation
from Sree Krishna And, as such, Sree Gauranga, with
;
purple cloth on His loins and with His pale cheek white
as the half-ripe jujube fruit placed upon the palm of
His left hand, is making the ground before Him clayey
by torrents of tears.
136. Lord Gauranga dances delightfully in the

flower garden on the sea-shore when the halo round
His body illumines all around like the moon-beam,

and His loins look most beautiful with the purple cloth
He puts on ; He brightens the sky with the lustre of
His teeth when He laughs loud, makes the ground
muddy by constant drops of tears, and resounds all
quarters by the loud strokes of His feet against the
ground.
Lamentation.
137. When will Sree Gauranga with His Divine

Consort Vishnupriya be the object of my whole-hearted
adoration and meditation, Who has all on a sudden
intoxicated this world with the finest liquor of the
highest love, Whose highly beautiful instructions were

beyond the conception of Lakshmi, Brahma, Vishnu
and Siva, and Whose attributes could not be deter-
mined by the Upanishads that contain the elaborate
exposition of the essence of the Vedas ?

138. O my Lord Sree Gauranga ! Where art
Thou gone ! The bright path of sincere devotion to

God, that I hou hast shown, is nowhere to be found
now. Some sects are found to be cold & callous owing
to their attachment to Karma, some sects are con-
fined to mere recital of mantras, certain people are
found to be following only superficial ceremonials,

some make sham attempts at the control of the senses,
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amongst some people there is seen vitiation in the wor-

ship of Krishna, some make a vain show of their jnan,
and amongst many devotion to God exists in mere
words and outer formalities.
139. Oh ! Will that sweet and pleasant time
come back when Sree Gaur Hari came down to the
world and by His unspeakable glory plunged the earth
in the Ocean of bliss and love and when loud shouts

of Sankirtan delighted all hearts ?
140. Oh Thou All Gracious Lord Sree Gaur-

anga ! That very Gauda still remains, the sea-shore at
Puri is still the same ; there is the Image of Jagannath
in the temple of Puri as before, the names of Krishna
are still uttered by men ; but, alas ! Oh Lord ! nowhere
is seen such fountain of love as was witnessed at
the time when Thou didst Thy Lee I a. Shall I,
Oh Lord ! see the same fountain bliss of love
again ?
141. Sree Gauranga cannot be said to be a
part incarnation, for, no part incarnation has ever revealed

or can ever reveal such superior power of love and
graciousness 5
— the most wonderful revelations that
Gauranga has made are beyond all comparison and far
above all conception. Sree Gauranga is surely — the
most Perfect Incarnation — He is God Himself.

142. A mere child am I, my words can hardly
express the infinitesimal part of the glory of Lord Gaur-
raaga. Still, may what I

speak in these few verses be
acceptable to Him, for. He is Lord of all lords, His

love knows no bounds, and His high glory is ever
adored by all the sages.
143. I have come in touch with the people who

worship Sree Krishna Chaitanya, which worship does
away with the bondage of worldly attachment, I have

come across the disciples of Sree Gauranga who are
the fore-runners in bhakti,
the path of I have, with
as much keen judgment as can command, I consulted
the ever-cheerful sages whose nature is to give true
delight to all by the true decision of all the shastras,
and my object is to speak out the true intents of what
1 have studied, learnt, observed and experienced 5 so, |
pray that The Lord Gauranga may be pleased with me

at what I have said in these few verses.
THE END
Appendix.
Meanings of Sanskrit words used

in the translation.
[ Sree Gauranga is known by many other names,

such as, Gaur Hari, Gaur Chandra, Gauranga Chandra,
Nimai, Chaitanya, Sree Chaitanya, Sree Chaitanya
Chandra, Sree Krishna Chaitanya ].
[ Vishnupria is the Divine consort of Sree Gau-

ranga. She is the perfect Embodiment of the bliss-
givingpower of the Lord Sree Gauranga.

Bairagya
—
Freedom from attachment to worldly things.
B?.tsaiya prem-- Parental love. Sakhyaprem- -Friendly love.

—
Dasya prem Love of the servant for the master,
rvladhur —
prem Love of the wife for the husband.
These are the four grades of love. When turned

towards matter, it brings the downfall of man.
Sree Gauranga, the centre and source of all love
came to earth to attract all hearts and enable all
His people to love Him as the Master, or the
Friend or the son or the Husband according as

the kind of love stood upper-most in their minds.
Bhagavat
—The sacred scripture dealing specially with the
Lee!a of Sree Krishna.
Bhakta —A devotee.
Bhakti — Devotion .
( 2 )
Brahma — The Great Being.

Brahma — The power of God.
creative
Brindavan — The holy place in the district of Mathura in
U. P. where Sree Krishna did His Leela in
—Dwapara
Brishni The
Age.
where Krishna was
race born.
Gokul — That of Brindavan where Sree Krishna
part was
brought up in His infant stage.
Gopa —Miik-man.
Gopee — Milk-maid, young Gopas were Krishna's male
friends, and young Gopees His female friends.
Indra— The king of gods.
Jagannath
— Lit. The Lord of the world. The [ma<gc of
Jagannath at Pari is referred to.
JavoJa
— The Ho!y Mother of Krishna.
Jnan
— Knowledge. used It is in the specia 1
sense of con-
sciousness of the oneness of the human soul with
the divine, which, according to Sankaracharja, is
the highest salvation and the highest end of hu-

man ire. Bhaktas do not aspire to this kind of
salvation. Instead of absolute merginj or dis-
appearance of the human soul in the di/ine, as the
followers of some school of Hindu Philosophy

hold to be the summum bon mi of human life,
Bhaktas want to enjoy eternal bliss of Bhakti for

which the worshipper exis 5 eternally by the wor-
shipped
— he will lot disappear altogether in the
v.'
rshipped.
( 3 )
Kali —Also called Kali yoga or Kali Age. Hindu scrip-

tures speak of four ages
—Satya, Treta, Dwapar
and Kali. According to the needs of the time
and capacities of the people to comprehend
God, one Avatar came in one age, and another
Avatar in another age. Sree Krishna came in
the Dwapara Age and Sree Gauranga in the
Kali Age. So, Sree Gauranga is the latest Incar-
nation of God.
K\rma — Lit. Actions or doings $ rituals ; rites and
ceremonies. Those, who have faith in Karma,
believe that men take births and rebirths and are
punished or rewarded in the next life according
to their doings in this life.
— The
Leela of an Avatar.
playful life
Mantra — Hymn.
Narada — The well-known divine sage.
—
Navadwip The place of
in the district Nadia in Bengal
where Sree Gauranga was born.
Nirbhed Brahma Jnan— The same as Jnan.
—
Radha The bliss-giving power of Sree Krishna.
Rash — The sweet beautiful dance that Sree Krishna had
with the Gopees. It is perfectly pure and
blissful.
Raurava —The name of the vilest hell.
Sachee — The Holy Mother Sree Gauranga.

of
Sannyasi or
Sannyasin
— A saint.
Siva — The power of God.

destructive
( 4 )
Sree Dam — The name of a Gopa friend of Sree

Krishna.
Sruti —The Vedas, so called, as they were the divine
words heard and recorded by the sages of old
( Derived from Sanskrit root sru to hear ).
Suka — The son of Vyasa. Vyasa wrote the Bhagavat

as revealed to him ; and Suka reproduced it to
Raja Pa reeks hit.
Tandava dance Dance — in divine ecstatic joy.
Uddhab — A friend of Sree Krishna.

—
Upanishads The commentaries of the Vedas.
Vishnu — The power
protective of God.
—
yoga Trance by a systematic control of reipiratiDn
which requires a regular training.
Yogi or —
yogin He who practises the above.
A Few Precious Books'
by Bidhu Bhushan Sarkar B. A.
Sree Chaitanya Chandramrita.
Translated into English. It contains the life of

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rhe Amrita Bazar Patrika dated 4-8-35 says :—
need hardly be said that Sree Chaitanya Chandra-
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mrita is an invaluable book in Vaishnava literature.

It was written by the greatest savant and most erudite
scholar of the sixteenth century. The book contains the
truth that the learned saint of Benares realised about Sree
Gauranga out of his deep concentration, vast erudition

and above all firm devotion. The master mind o\ his
was not to be led away by emotion. Saraswati
Prabodhananda never accepted any truth without close
study and minute observation. So, his conception o\
Gauranga is without any bias, without any misgiving and
without the least tinge of doubt. Whatever he says about
Sree Gauranga, he says from the very depth of his heart.
Bidhu Babu has done a great service to the people,

specially to those of places other than Bengal by bringing
out the English translation of this precious book. Babr
Sisir Kumar Ghosh must have given inspiration to
Bidhu Babu, otherwise the language would not have been

so chaste and beautiful, so lucid ad appealing. We reco-
mmend this book to the reading public that they may be
enlightened on the truth of Sree Gauranga, the Great
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Prabodhananda Saraswati, the great savant of Benares,
was an intellectual giant. He wrote the above book in
Sanskrit verses on the true attributes of Lord Gauranga

as he appreciated Him. Prabodhananda was a 'Sannyasf
and had some ten thousand disciples. When he came
in contact with Sree Gauranga, he took to His lotus feet,
of course after great deliberation. So, what he says in the
book, can be relied on without the least hesitation or

doubt.
The present treatise under review is a versical trans-
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tma Sisir Kumar, in a very simple, sweet and elegant style.
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and especially those who desire to know of Sree Gau-
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within the easy reach of every one. The book can be
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Translated into English

SREEMAT SARASWATI PRABODHANANDA.

Translated into English

Price Eight annas.

Eight pei ce (foreign)

Printed by Rajani Kanta Nath at the

Srce Chaitanya Chandramrita is an authentic book

attributes of Sree Gauranga as he appreciated Him.

contact with The Lord and took to His lotus feet

after great deliberations, and he was a great intellectual

that, that saint of a man, Babu Sisir Kumar Ghosh, the

well-known founder of the Amrita Bazar Patrika, who

tenetsand teachings of Sree Gauranga by writing

kindly asked me to bring out the translation of this

book ; and so is my humble attempt. Babu Sisir

Kumar saw it and left a remark in writing—-"lt is good.

I admit my weakness both in my knowledge of

English and in my conception of the true attributes of

The Lord ; so, I

religion is a matter of revelation. And I believe that

this revelation comes through concentration and prayer.

unless we know the life of the author, we may not be

Life Sketch of Saraswati

Belgundi, a village near Seringapatam on the river

Philosophy, specially the Vedanta ; and the nothingness

so much impressed him, that he renounced the world

a Sanyasi by embracing the cult of Sankaracharyya.

learning in western India. At that time there were

of Nyaya ). Both of them were distinguished intellec-

tual geniuses. Basudev belonged to Bengal and

Formerly Nyaya Philosophy was cultured only in

Mithila or modern Behar ; and the scholars of this

philosophy there did not allow this philosophy to go

for, they feared, that people of greater intellect of other

opportunity to have the whole book written and spread

Bengali intellect. This was in the fifteenth century

it from place to place • but it was not allowed. So

committed the whole book to memory and brought

thrown into the back ground and students from various

provinces began to flock to the feet of this great teacher

Navadwip which was then a very big city. Sarbabhaum's

next to Jagannath he was adored by one and all of the

Jagannath. The big house known as Gangamatha

philosophy as expounded by Sankaracharyya. The

philosophies and all the sacred Hindu Scriptures as a

the Great Divine Soul. The cuit of- Bhakti and

millions of people from different parts of the country

they bowed before Him, fell prostrate before Him,

prayed to Him in various ways with folded hands, gave

was only a means to the attainment of that Jnana

world at Navadwip, and, from the very beginning of His

fully thus was almost immersed and the

whole of Nade (Navadwip) was flooded by the ocean

introduced by The Lord. He loved all equally. He

equally graced by His look of love. Equality of man

brotherhood The Lord wanted to spread all over India.

they all looked upon The Lord as God Incarnate. They

Now that Basudev Sarbabhaum became a staunch