INTRODUCTION
Delivered as five morning lectures on the  Chaitanya Charitamrita ; the authoritative biography of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, written by Krishna Das Kaviraj; before the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, New York City, April 10–14, 1967.
Chaitanya  means the living force. You and I can move, but a table cannot because it has no living force. Not only movement, but resistance is also a sign of living force.  Chaitanya  means activities,  Amrita  means immortal, and  Charitra  means character. There is no activity without living force. The material condition has living force but is not  Amrita , immortal.  Chaitanya Charitamrita , then, means the Character of the Living Force in Immortality.
But how is this displayed? It is not displayed by you or I—none of us are immortal in these bodies. We have living force and activities, and we are immortal by nature and constitution. But the material condition into which we have been put doesn't allow these qualities to be displayed. It is stated in the  Katha Upanishad  that eternality and living force are characteristic of
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