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THE SCIENCE OF SELF-REALIZATION
dāsa Goswami. There are three meanings of  go .  Go  means “land,”  go  means “cow,” and  go  means “senses.” And  swami  means “master.” So  goswami  means that they were masters of the senses. When one becomes master of the senses, or  goswami , he can make progress in spiritual life. That is the real meaning of  swami . Swami means that one is not servant of the senses, but master of them.
One of these six Goswamis, Rūpa Goswami, was the head, and he compiled a nice verse in honor of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He says:
anarpita-carīm cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau 
  samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasām sva-bhakti-śriyam 
  hariḥ puraṭa-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandīpitaḥ 
  sadā hṛdaya-kandare sphuratu vaḥ śacī-nandanaḥ 
  [Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi 1.4]
Kalau  means this age, this age of Kali, the Iron Age, which is very much contaminated, an age of quarrel and disagreement. Rūpa Goswami says that in this age of Kali, when everything is disagreement and quarrel, “You have descended to offer the highest love of God.”  Samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasām : and not only the topmost, but a very brilliant  rasa , or transcendental humor.  Puraṭa-sundara-dyuti : Your complexion is just like gold, like the luster of gold. “You are so kind that I bless everyone [the Goswamis can bless because they are masters of the senses] that this form of the Lord, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, may always remain dancing in everyone’s heart.”
When Rūpa Goswami first met Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Prayāga, Lord Caitanya was chanting and dancing in the street, “Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa.” At that time also Rūpa Goswami offered one prayer.  Namo mahā-vadānyāya kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te : “Oh, You are the most munificent of all incarnations because You are distributing love of Godhead.”  Kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya tel kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ : “You are Kṛṣṇa Himself because if You were not Kṛṣṇa You could not distribute  kṛṣṇa-prema , or love of God, for love of Kṛṣṇa is not so easily acquired. But You are distributing this love freely to everyone.”
In this way the  saṅkīrtana  movement was inaugurated in Bengal, India, in Navadvīpa. In this sense, the Bengalis are very fortunate that in their country this movement was inaugurated by Lord Caitanya, who predicted:
pṛthivīte ache yata nagarādi grāma 
  sarvatra pracāra haibe mora nāma