Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila

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Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta is the main work on the life and teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of Krishna who appeared in India five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya introduced the chanting of the holy names of God as the prescribed method of God-realization for our time. He began what is today called the Hare Krishna movement, since the movement's founder, Srila Prabhupada, comes in the Chaitanya line of spiritual masters. Lord Chaitanya transformed the face of India in four respects: philosophically, by encountering, defeating and converting the greatest philosophers and thinkers of His day; religiously, by organizing the largest, most widespread theistic movement in India's history; socially, by His strong challenges to the religious inequities of the caste system; politically, by His organization of a massive civil disobedience movement in Bengal, more than four centuries before Gandhi. This English translation with commentary, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, reveals his consummate Bengali and Sanskrit scholarship, his intimate familiarity with the precepts of Sri Chaitanya, and his pure devotion to God. Cover Title Page Books by Srila Prabhupada Copyright Information Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The Later Pastimes of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Chapter 2: The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Chapter 3: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Stay at the House of Advaita Ācārya Chapter 4: Śrī Mādhavendra Puri’s Devotional Service Chapter 5: The Activities of Sākṣi-gopāla Chapter 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya Chapter 7: The Lord’s Tour of South India Chapter 8: Talks Between Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Rāmānanda Rāya Chapter 9: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Travels to the Holy Places Chapter 10: The Lord’s Return to Jagannātha Purī Chapter 11: The Beḍā-kīrtana Pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Chapter 12: The Cleansing of the Guṇḍicā Temple Chapter 13: The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord At Ratha-yātrā Chapter 14: Performance of the Vṛndāvana Pastimes Chapter 15: The Lord Accepts Prasādam at the House of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya Chapter 16: The Lord’s Attempt to Go to Vṛndāvana Chapter 17: The Lord Travels to Vṛndāvana Chapter 18: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s Visit to Śrī Vṛndāvana Chapter 19: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī Chapter 20: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth Chapter 21: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Chapter 22: The Process of Devotional Service Chapter 23: Life’s Ultimate Goal - Love of Godhead Chapter 24: The Sixty-One Explanations of the Ātmārāma Verse Chapter 25: How All the Residents of Vārāṇasī Became Vaiṣṇavas Appendixes The Author References Glossary Sanskrit Pronunciation Guide