gaura mandala ekachakra santipur

Sri Krsna Caitanya & Prabhu Nityananda

 

vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nityānandau sahoditau

gauḍodaye puṣpavantaucitrau śan-dau tamo-nudau​

I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.
(CC Ādi 1.2)

Caitanya means living. That personification of all living forces is Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. People mistake Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu because by misfortune they understand Kṛṣṇa Caitanya as a devotee or just like so-called sādhu or yogī, like that. That is mistake. Kṛṣṇa Caitanya means the original living force, Kṛṣṇa. So Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, he understood Him. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, he understood Him. Similarly, the followers of Rūpa Gosvāmī—Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, and all the Gosvāmīs—they will understand Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu. And one who understands or follows the path enunciated by Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for them Kṛṣṇa is very easily obtained. This is called Caitanya-caritāmṛta.
(750325 – Lecture CC Adi 01.01 – Mayapur)

Kṛṣṇa was also not so liberal. He simply asked us, “Surrender,” but He did not distribute Himself. But in the form of Caitanya Mahāprabhu He distributed Himself, “Take Me, take Me, take Me. Without any price, take Me.” This is Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is Kṛṣṇa, and He has come in the form of Caitanya, Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, to distribute Himself. Therefore He is recognized, namo mahā-vadānyāya, “The most munificent.”
(721031 – Lecture SB 01.02.20 – Vrndavana)

Information – The larger deities of Gaura-Nitai in the bhajan kutir are named ‘Sri Krishna Caitanya & Prabhu Nityananda’. They were previously on the sankirtan bus and traveled on the pada yatra from Dwarka to Mayapur. This pada yatra holds the world record for the longest duration, lasting 18 months. It began on Radhastami and concluded in Mayapur at the 500th Birth Anniversary festival of Lord Caitanya.

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