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mends this process as the most excellent mode of worship. He accepts the  Śrīmad-Bhāgavata Purāṇa  as the spotless literature for understanding the Lord, and He preached that the ultimate goal of life for all human beings is to attain the stage of  premā  or love of God.
Many devotees of Lord Caitanya like Śrīla Vṛndāvana-dāsa Thākur, Śrī Locanadāsa Thākur, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, Śrī Kavikarṇapūra, Śrī Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī, Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmī and in this latter age within two hundred years, Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana, Śrī Śyāmānanda Gosvāmī, Śrī Narottama-dāsa Thākur, Śrī Bhaktivinode Thākur and at last Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thākur (our spiritual master) and many other great and renowned scholars and devotees of the Lord, have prepared voluminous books and literatures on the life and precepts of the Lord. Such literatures are all based on the  śāstras  like the  Vedas ,  Purāṇas ,  Upaniṣads ,  Rāmāyaṇa ,  Mahābhārata  and other histories and authentic literatures approved by the recognized  ācāryas . They are unique in composition and unrivaled in presentation, and they are full of transcendental knowledge. Unfortunately the people of the world are still ignorant of them, but when these literatures, which are mostly in Sanskrit and Bengali, come to light the world and when they are presented before thinking people, then India's glory and the message of love will overflood this morbid world, which is vainly searching after peace and prosperity by various illusory methods not approved by the  ācāryas  in the chain of discipline succession.
The readers of this small description of the life and precepts of Lord Caitanya will profit much to go through the books of Śrīla Vṛndāvana-dāsa Thākur ( Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata ) and Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī ( Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta ). The early life of the Lord is most fascinatingly expressed by the author of  Caitanya-bhāgavata , and as far as the teachings are concerned, they are more vividly explained in the  Caitanya-caritāmṛta . Now they are available to the English speaking public in our  Teachings of Lord Caitanya .
The Lord's early life was recorded by one of His chief devotees and contemporaries, namely Śrīla Murāri Gupta, a medical practitioner of that time, and the latter part of the life of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was recorded by His private secretary Śrī Dāmodara Gosvāmī or Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara, who was practically a constant companion of the Lord at Purī. These two devotees recorded practically all the incidences of the Lord's activities, and later on all the books dealing with the Lord, which are above