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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
Therefore Lord Krishna demanded that one should surrender unto Him through the above-mentioned six phases of the surrendering process; but the less intelligent class of men and so-called scholars of the world misunderstood these demands of the Lord, and thus misguided the general mass of people to reject them. In the  Bhagavad Gita , at the end of the Ninth Chapter, the Lord directly orders one to always think of Him, become His devotee, worship Him only, offer obeisances unto Him only—and by doing so one is sure to come to Him in His Transcendental Abode. But so-called scholarly demons misguide the mass of people, directing them not to surrender like that to the Personality of Godhead, but rather to the impersonal, non-manifested, eternal, unborn Truth. The  Mayavadi , impersonalist, philosophers do not accept that the last word in the matter of understanding the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If one desires to understand the Sun as he is, one faces first of all the sunshine, and then the Sun globe, and at last if one is able to enter into that globe, there is the possibility of seeing face-to-face the predominating Deity of the Sun. The  Mayavadi  philosophers, due to a poor fund of knowledge, cannot go beyond the Brahman effulgence which is like the sunshine. The  Upanishads  confirm that one has to penetrate the dazzling effulgence of Brahman, and then one can see the real Face of the Personality of Godhead.
Lord Chaitanya therefore teaches us directly that one has to worship Lord Krishna, Who appeared as the foster Child of the King of Braja. He also recommends that the place known as Vrindaban is as good as Lord Krishna because, Lord Krishna being the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, there is no difference between His Name, Quality, Form, Pastimes, Entourage, and Paraphernalia.
Lord Chaitanya also recommended that the mode of worshipping the Lord in the highest perfectional stage is the method of worship conceived by the Damsels of Braja. The Damsels of Braja, the Gopis, simply loved Krishna without any motive for material or spiritual gain. He also recommended that  Srimad Bhagwatam  is the spotless narration of transcendental knowledge and that the highest gain in the human form of life is to develop unalloyed love of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Lord Chaitanya's teachings are exactly the same as those given by Lord Kapila, the original propounder of the  Samkhya Yoga , or the  Samkhya  system of philosophy. This authorized system of Yoga is practiced on the principle of meditation on the Transcendental Form of the Lord. There is no meditating on something Void or impersonal involved. When one is practiced to meditate upon the Transcendental Form of Lord Vishnu, even without the sitting posture in a particular place and atmosphere, the stage is called perfect  Samadhi . This perfect  Samadhi  of  Samkhya Yoga  is confirmed in the  Bhagavad Gita  at the end of the Sixth Chapter, where the Lord says that of all the yogis, one who constantly thinks of the Lord within the core of his heart with love and devotion is the greatest.
Lord Chaitanya instructed this  Samkhya Yoga , or system of philosophy—called