CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
Lord Chaitanya and Ramananda Roy
The author of  Chaitanya Charitamrita  has described Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as the ocean of transcendental knowledge, and Sri Ramananda Roy as the cloud which is produced from the ocean. Ramananda Roy was a greatly advanced scholar in devotional service, and by the grace of Lord Chaitanya he gathered all such transcendental conclusions, just as the cloud achieves its existence from the water of the ocean. As the cloud appears from the ocean and redistributes water all over the world, and then again goes back to the ocean, so by the grace of Lord Chaitanya Ramananda Roy achieved his higher knowledge in devotional service, and thus he again went to Lord Chaitanya at Puri after retirement from service.
When Lord Chaitanya was visiting the southern part of India, He first of all visited the great temple Bisakhapattan, the temple known as Jiayar Nrishingha Kshetra. It is situated at a place known as Singachalam, five miles from the railway station Bisakhapattan. The temple is situated on the top of a hill, and there are many temples in that quarter, but Jiayar Nrishingha
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