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Srimad Bhagwatam is the science of Krishna the Absolute Personality ofGodhead as much as we have preliminary informations from the text of theBhagwat Geeta. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said that every one, it does notmatter what he is, who is well versed in the science of Krishna (SrimadBhagwatam and for the matter of that Sri Bhagwat Geeta) can become anauthorised preacher or precepter in the science of Krishna.There is need of the science of Krishna in the human society for all thesuffering humanity of the world and we would simply request the leadingpersonalities of all nations to take some information of the science of Krishnafor their own good, for the good of the society and for the good of all peopleof the world.(A short life sketch and teachings of Lord Chaitanya, the Preacher ofSrimad Bhagwatam.)LORD SRI CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU, the Great Apostle of love ofGod and the Father of introducing congregational chanting of the holy nameof the Lord, advented Himself at Sridham Mayapur a quarter in the then cityof Nabadwipa in Bengal on the Phalgooni Purnima evening in the year 1407Shakabda (corresponding to Christian era 1486 February.)His father Sri Jagannath Misra, a learned Brahmin, hailing from the districtof Shylet came to Nabadwipa as a student because at that time Nabadwipawas considered to be the centre of education and culture and he domiciled onthe bank of the Ganges after marrying Srimati Sachi devi a daughter of SrilaNilambar Chakrabarty, the great learned scholar of the then Nabadwipa.Jagannath Misra had a number of daughters by his wife Srimati Sachideviand most of them expired at an early age. Two surviving sons Sri Viswarupaand Vishwambhar became at last the object of their filial affection and the lastnamed son or the youngest son and the tenth one was Viswambhar who lateron was known as Nimai Pandit and then Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu afteraccepting the renounced order of life.Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited His transcendental activities forfull forty eight years and then He disappeared from this mortal world in theyear 1455 Shakabda at Puri.For twenty four years only, he remained at Nabadwipa as student andhouseholder. His first wife was Srimati Lakshmi Priya who died at an earlyage when the Lord was absent from home. On His return from East Bengal,He was requested by His mother to accept a second wife and the Lord agreed.His second wife was Srimati Vishnupriya Devi who bore the separation of theLord, throughout the life, because the Lord took the order of Sanyas at the ageof twenty four when Srimati Vishnupriya was hardly sixteen years onlyAfter taking Sanyas, the Lord made His headquarters at Jagannath Puri onthe request of His mother Srimati Sachidevi. Thus the Lord remained fortwenty four years at Puri out of which continuously for six years He travelledall over India and specially the Southern India in the mode of His preachingwork of the cult of Srimad Bhagwatam.The cult of His preaching Srimad Bhagwatam was to propagate theteachings of the Bhagwat Geeta as well in the practical way. In the BhagwatGeeta Lord Sri Krishna is depicted as the Absolute Personality of Godheadand the last teachings of the great book of transcendental knowledge, is thatone should give up all other modes of religious activities and should acceptHim (Lord Sri Krishna) as the ONLY WORSHIPABLE Lord. And for this,the Lord assured all concerned that such devotees of the Lord would beprotected from all sorts of sinful acts and there was no cause of anxiety.Unfortunately inspite of Lord Sri Krishna's direct order and teachings in theBhagwat Geeta, less intelligent people misunderstood Him as a historicalgreat personality and thus could not accept Him (Lord Sri Krishna) as theOriginal Personality of Godhead and such men with poor fund of knowledgewere misled by many non-devotes. Thus the teachings of the Bhagwat Geetawas misinterpreted even by great scholars. Thus after the disappearance ofLord Sri Krishna there were hundreds of commentaries on the Bhagwat Geetaby many erudite scholars and almost every one tried to comment on theBhagwat Geeta differently according to the self-interested motive.Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the self Same Lord Sri Krislma and thistime He appeared as a great Devotee of Lord Sri Krishna inorder to preach tothe people in general, religionists and philosophers about the transcendentalposition of Sri Krishna the Primeval Lord and the cause of all causes.The sumtotal of His Preaching work was that Lord Sri Krishna whoappeared at Brajabhumi (Vrindaban) as the son of the king of Braja (NandaMaharaj),—is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and therefore He isworshipable by all. Vrindaban-dham is non-different from the Lord becausethe Name, Fame, Form, or the place where the Lord manifests Himself, all areidentical with the Lord as Absolute knowledge. Therefore, Vrindaban-dham isalso as much worshipable as the Lord. The highest form of transcendentalworship of the Lord was exhibited by the damsels of Brajabhumi in the formof pure affection for the Lord and Lord Sri Chaitanya recommends the processas super excellent mode of worship. He accepts the Srimad BhagawatamPuranam as the spotless Literature for understanding the Lord and Hepreached that the ultimate goal of life, for all human being, is to attain thestage of Prema or Love of God as the topmost perfection of life.Many devotees of the Lord (Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu) like SrilaVrindaban das Thakur, Sri Lochandas Thakur, Srila Krishnadas KavirajGoswami, Sri Kavi Karnapur, Sri Probodhananda Saraswati, Sri RupaINTRODUCTIONThe conception of God and the conception of the Absolute Truth are not onthe same level. Srimad Bhagwat hits on the target of the Absolute Truth.Conception of God means the controller whereas the conception of AbsoluteTruth means the Summum Bonum or the Ultimate Source of all Energies.There is no two opinions about the personal feature of God because He iscontroller. A controller cannot be an impersonal feature. ModernisedGovernment specially democratic Government is impersonal to some extentbut at the ultimate issue the chief executive head is a Person and theimpersonal feature of Government becomes subordinate to such Personalfeature of the Government. So whenever we speak something of control overothers, we must have to bring in the Personal feature without any doubt. Theremay be many Gods because there are different controllers in different parts ofmanagement. According to the statement of the Bhagwat Geeta any controllerwho has got some specific power extra ordinary than others is called abibhutimat satwa (Bg. 10.41) or controller empowered by the Lord. There aremany bibhutimat satwas, controllers or Gods with different specific powersbut the Absolute Truth is one without a second and the Srimad Bhagwatamdesignates the Absolute Truth or the Summum Bonum as the Param Satyam.Srimad Bhagwatam i. e. the Author of the book at first, offers his respectfulobeisances unto the Param Satyam and because the Param Satyam is theultimate Source of all energies the Param Satyam is the Supreme Person. TheGods or the controllers are undoubtedly persons but the Param Satyam fromWhom the Gods etc. derive powers of control is also Person and is theSupreme Person. The Sanskrit word Iswara conveys the import of God but theSupreme Person is called the Parameswara or the Supreme Iswara. TheSupreme Person or Parameswara is the Supreme Conscious Personality andbecause He does not derive any power from any other source, therefore, He isSupremely independent. In the Vedic literature Brahma is described as theSupreme God or the head of all other Gods like Indra, Chandra, Varuna etc.but Srimad Bhagwat affirms, that even Brahma is not independent in thematter of His power and knowledge. He received knowledge or the Vedasfrom the Supreme Person who resides within the heart (Bg. 15.15) of everyliving being. That Supreme Personality knows everything directly andindirectly. Individual infinitesimal persons, who are parts and parcels of theSupreme Personality, may know directly and indirectly everything about theirpersonal body or external features. But the Supreme Personality knowseverything perfectly well both about His external and internal features.The word 'janmadyasya' suggests that the source of all production,maintenance and destruction, is the same Supreme conscious Person. Even inour present experience we can know that nothing is generated from inertmatter but inert matter can be generated from living entity. By contact of theliving entity the material body developes into an working machine. Man withpoor fund of knowledge mistakes the bodily machinery as the living being butthe fact is that the living being as he is, is the basis of the bodily machine. Thebodily machine is useless as soon as the living spark is away from it. As suchthe original source of all material energy is the Supreme Person. This fact isexpressed in all the Vedic literatures and all exponents of spiritual sciencehave accepted this truth. The living force is called in other words as Brahmanand one of the greatest Acharya namely Sripad Sankaracharya has preachedthat Brahman is substance while the cosmic world is category. The originalsource of all energies being the Living force He is logically accepted as theSupreme Person. He is therefore fully conscious of everything past, presentand future and also each and every corner of His creative manifestation bothmaterial and spiritual. An imperfect living being does not know even what ishappening within the physiological condition of his personal body. He eats hisfoodstuff but does not know perfectly as to how the foodstuff transform intovitamins specifically for the particular constitution of his own body.Perfection of a living being means awareness of everything that happens andthe Supreme Person being all-perfect it is quite natural for Him that He knowseverything in all details. As such the Perfect Personality is addressed in theSrimad Bhagwatam as Vasudeva or One who lives everywhere in fullconsciousness and in full capacity of His complete energy. The whole thing isclearly explained in the Srimad Bhagwatam and the reader will have ampleopportunity to study them in all critical ways.In the modern age Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu preached the cult ofSrimad Bhagwatam by practical demonstration. It is easier, therefore, topenetrate into the topics of the Srimad Bhagwatam through the medium of SriChaitanya's causeless mercy. His merciful short sketch life and precepts arealso inserted herewith for specific understanding of the Srimad Bhagwatam.This will help the reader perfectly to understand the real merit of SrimadBhagwatam.It is imperative that one should learn Srimad Bhagwatam from the personBhagwatam. The Person-Bhagwatam is one whose very life is practicalSrimad Bhagwatam. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu being the AbsolutePersonality of Godhead He is both Bhagwan and Bhagwatam, in person andsound; and His process of approach of the Srimad Bhagwatam is, therefore,practical for all people of the world. He wanted it and ordered His followersthat the cult of the Srimad Bagwatam shall be preached in every nook andcorner of the world by every one who happens to take his birth in India.vii

Srimad Bhagawatam, First Canto, Part OneGoswami. Sri Sanatan Goswami, Sri Raghunath Bhatta Goswami, SriJivaGoswami, Sri Gopal Bhatta Goswami, Sri Raghunath Das Goswami andin the later age within two hundred years Sri Vishwanath Chakrabarty, SriValadeva Vidyabhusan, Sri Syamanada Goswami, Sri Narottamdas Thakur,Sri Bhaktivinode Thakur and at last Sri Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur(our spiritual Master) and many other great and renowned scholars anddevotees of the Lord have prepared voluminous books and literatures on thelife and precepts of the Lord. Such literatures are all based on the Shastras likethe Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata and other historyand authentic literatures approved by the recognised Acharyas. They areunique in compositions and unrivalled in presentation with full oftranscendental knowledge Unfortunately they are still under the cover ofignorance of the people and when such literatures (mostly in Sanskrit andBengali) will see the light of the world and will be presented before thethinking people of the world it is then only India's glory and the message ofLove will overflood the morbid world vainly searching after peace andprosperity under the cover of various illusory methods which are not in theline of approved Acharya-chain of desciplic succession.The readers of this small description on the life and precepts of LordChaitanya will do well and profit much if they go through the books of SrilaVrindaban das Thakur (Sri Chaitanya Bhagwat) and Srila Krishnadas KavirajGoswami (Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita). The early life of the Lord is mostfascinatingly expressed by the author of 'Chaitanya Bhagwat' and so far theteachings are concerned, they are more vividly explained in the ChaitanyaCharitamrita. We have tried to combine these two books in one under thename of CHAITANYA CHARITAMRITA ESSAYS AND TEXT (3000Pages) for the English readers.The Lord's early life was recorded by one of His chief devotees andcontemporaries namely Srila Murari Gupta, a medical practitioner of that timeand the later part of the life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was recorded by Hisprivate Secretary Sri Damodar Goswami or Srila Swarup Damodar who waspractically constant companion of the Lord at Puri. These two devotees,recorded practically all the incidences of the Lord's activities and later on allthe books regarding the Lord as abovementioned were composed on the basisof Karchas of Srila Damodar Goswami and Murari Gupta.So the Lord advented Himself on the Phalgooni Purnima evening of 1407Shakabda and it was by the will of the Lord there was Lunar eclipse on thatevening. It is the custom of the Hindu public to take bath in the Ganges or anyother sacred river during the hours of eclipse and chant the Vedic mantras forpurification. When Lord Chaitanya was born during the Lunar eclipse, thewhole of India was roarning with holy sound of HARE KRISHNA HAREKRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARERAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE. These sixteen Names of the Lord arementioned in many Puranas and Upanishads and they are described as theTarak Brahman Name of this age. It is recommended in the Shastras thatoffenseless chanting of these holy names of the Lord can deliver a fallen soulfrom the material bondage. There are innumerable Names of the Lord both inIndia and outside and all of them are equally good because all of themindicate to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because these sixteenNames are specially recommended for this age, it is better that people maytake advantage of the great Acharyas and their path who attained success bytheir practice of the rules in the Shastras (revealed scriptures).This co-incidence of the Lord's appearance and occurrence of the Lunareclipse make it clear about the mission of the Lord. The mission of the Lordwas to preach the importance of chanting the holy names of the Lord in thisage of kali (quarrel). The present age is meant for quarrel even on trifle thingsand therefore the Shastras have recommended for this age a common platformof chanting the holy name of the Lord. Accompanied by melodious musicpeople can hold meetings for glorifying the Lord in their respective languagesand if such performances are executed in an offenseless manner, it is sure andcertain that such persons will gradually attain spiritual perfection without anyeffort to undergo any other rigid methods In such meeting every one, thelearned and the fool, the rich and the poor, the Hindus and Muslim, theEnglishman and the Indian or the Chandala and the Brahmin, all can give anaural reception to the transcendental sound and thus purify the dustaccumulated on the mirror of one's heart by unwanted association of materialsurroundings. And to confirm the Lord's mission all the people of the worldwill accept the holy name of the Lord as the common platform for Universalreligion of the mankind. In other words the Advent of the Holy name tookplace along with the Advent of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.When the Lord was on the lap of His mother, the child would at once stopcrying as soon as the ladies surrounding Him chanted the holy name with clapof hands. The peculiar incidence was observed by the neighbors of the Lordwith awe and veneration. Sometimes the younger ladies took pleasure inmaking the Lord crying and then stop him by chanting the holy name. Sofrom the very childhood the Lord began to preach the importance of the holyname. Lord Sri Chaitanya was known as Nimai in His early age. This namewas given by His beloved mother because the Lord took his birth underneatha Neem Tree in the courtyard of His paternal house.When the Lord was offered solid foodstuff at the age of six months in theAnnaprashan ceremony, the Lord indicated His future activities. It is a rule tooffer the child at the time both coins and books to see the future taste of thechild. The Lord was offered both sides coins and the Bhagwat. But the Lordaccepted Srimad Bhagwatam instead of the coins.When He was five years old He was initiated for learning and He showedHimself a naughty boy. And When He was a mere baby crawling on the yard,one day it so happened that a snake appeared before the baby and the Lordbegan to play with it. All the members of the house were struck with fear andawe but after a little while the snake went away and the baby was taken awayby His mother. Sometime He was stolen by a thief in order to take away Hisornaments but the Lord took a pleasure trip on the shoulder of the bewilderedthief. The thief was searching for a solitary place in order to rob the baby andit so happened that the thief wondering hither and thither, arrived at last justbefore the house of Jagganath Misra and he was afraid of being caught holdof. He, therefore, dropped the baby at once and

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