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CHAPTER 5 Associating with Kṛṣṇa If one gets something superior, he naturally gives up all inferior things. We want enjoyment, but impersonalism and voidism have created such an atmosphere that we have become addicted to material … Read More

CHAPTER 2 Elevation at Death There are different kinds of transcendentalists who are called yogīs – haṭha-yogīs, jñāna-yogīs, dhyāna-yogīs, and bhakti-yogīs – and all of them are eligible to be transferred to the spiritual world. The … Read More

CHAPTER THIRTY The Transcendental Pastimes of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa The difference between ordinary religious activities and devotional service is very great. By executing religious rituals one can achieve economic development, sense gratification or liberation (merging into … Read More

CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Ecstasy of the Lord and His Devotees The symptoms of highly developed devotional service for Kṛṣṇa, which are exhibited by the pure devotees, are sometimes imitated by those who are not actually pure … Read More

CHAPTER NINE The Opulences of Kṛṣṇa Since Lord Caitanya is especially merciful to innocent, unsophisticated persons, His name is also Patita-pāvana, the deliverer of the most fallen conditioned souls. Although a conditioned soul may be fallen … Read More

CHAPTER TWO Sanātana Gosvāmī vande ’nantādbhutaiśvaryaṁ   śrī-caitanya-mahāprabhum nīco ’pi yat-prasādāt syād   bhakti-śāstra-pravartakaḥ I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by whose mercy even a person in the lowest status of life can find direction … Read More

A Note About this Edition Śrīla Prabhupāda completed Teachings of Lord Caitanya in 1967, and his Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (then known as ISKCON Press) published it in 1968. In 1974 the BBT published an extensively revised … Read More

Lord Caitanya’s Mission Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu instructed His disciples to write books on the science of Kṛṣṇa, a task which His followers have continued to carry out down to the present day. The elaborations and expositions … Read More

Introduction Originally delivered as five morning lectures on Caitanya-caritāmṛta – the authoritative biography of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī – before the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, New York City, April 10–14, 1967. The … Read More

Īśo 14 sambhūtiṁ ca vināśaṁ ca yas tad vedobhayaḿ saha vināśena mṛtyuṁ tīrtvā sambhūtyāmṛtam aśnute Synonyms sambhūtim — the eternal Personality of Godhead, His transcendental name, form, pastimes, qualities and paraphernalia, the variegatedness of His abode, … Read More