{"id":61092,"date":"2024-03-06T03:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=61092"},"modified":"2024-03-06T00:51:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T04:51:57","slug":"the-associates-of-caitanya-mahaprabhu-at-navadvipa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-associates-of-caitanya-mahaprabhu-at-navadvipa\/","title":{"rendered":"The associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Navadvipa"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol start=\"15\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Navadvipa<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/E3E0CC76-0AA5-4986-A330-BB451993A08C#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a> are considered the most exalted.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol start=\"16\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next most exalted are the Lord&#8217;s associates at Jagannath Puri<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/E3E0CC76-0AA5-4986-A330-BB451993A08C#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a>, and after them are the great souls who met Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu in His journeys to South India and other places<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/E3E0CC76-0AA5-4986-A330-BB451993A08C#_ftn3\" name=\"_ftnref3\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol start=\"17\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his description of Lord Caitanya, Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has explained that among the exalted associates of the Panca-tattva are devotees that were formerly cowherd boys who performed pastimes with Krishna.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol start=\"18\">\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some learned devotees say that Navadvipa is identical with the land of Vrindavana. Others say that Navadvipa is actually the spiritual planet Goloka. Some say that Navadvipa is the planet Svetadvipa, and others say that Navadvipa is actually the spiritual sky of Vaikuntha.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All glories to the wonderfully splendid land of Navadvipa.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/E3E0CC76-0AA5-4986-A330-BB451993A08C#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" rel=\"nofollow\">[1]<\/a> Navadvipa is the holy place where Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared and performed pastimes iuntill his 24th year of age<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/E3E0CC76-0AA5-4986-A330-BB451993A08C#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\" rel=\"nofollow\">[2]<\/a> Jagannatha Puri is the holy place where Mahaprabhu spent his last sixteen years of his life in this planets<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/E3E0CC76-0AA5-4986-A330-BB451993A08C#_ftnref3\" name=\"_ftn3\" rel=\"nofollow\">[3]<\/a> Sri Caitanya traveled for sic year in South India<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">This is a section of the book \u201cGaura Ganoddesa Dipika\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/sri-gaura-ganoddesa-dipika-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click above<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Navadvipa[1] are considered the most exalted. \u00a0 The next most exalted are the Lord&#8217;s associates at Jagannath Puri[2], and after them are the great souls who met Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-associates-of-caitanya-mahaprabhu-at-navadvipa\/\" aria-label=\"The associates of Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Navadvipa\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":62058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[210],"class_list":["post-61092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-gaura-ganoddesa-dipika-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 13:36:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}