SRI CAITANYA-CARITAMRTA
FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO, at the ear-
nest request of the holy devotees of Vrndavana,
the most sacred city in all of India, Krsnadasa
Kaviraja Gosvami wrote his famous spiritual
treatise Caitanya-caritamrta, describing the won-
derful pastimes and precepts of Lord Sri Cai-
tanya Mahdprabhu. “By the mercy of Lord
Caitanya,.” he wrote, “a dumb man can recite
perfect poetry, a lame man can cross over moun-
tains, and a blind man can see the stars in the
sky.”

Who was Lord Caitanya? A teacher, certainly,
for His philosophical brilliance astounded the
greatest scholars and logicians of His day. But
besides being a teacher, He was a true saint, for
He was always chanting the names of God and
dancing, absorbed in ecstatic love for the Su-
preme Lord. Yet Krsna dasa regards Him as
more thana teacher and more than a saint. Lord
Caitanya, he asserts, is the Supreme Lord Him-
self playing the role of the Supreme Lord’s devo-
tee; no one, therefore, can be greater than Him.

But Caitanya-caritamrta, unlike today’s many
sentimental exaltations of bogus paperback Gods,
is a book of reason and evidence; indeed, it is a
unique book of spiritual science. Now, the au-
thor of Bhagavad-gita As It is, The Nectar of

: Devotion, Sri [Sopanisad and a host of other
important spiritual texts has presented Caitanya-
caritamrta in its fullness, verse by verse, with
explanatory purports of extraordinary clarity
and profundity. This book, therefore, offers sub-
lime knowledge to one sincerely seeking the
highest truth.
On the cover
| Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu dancing and chant-
\ ing Hare Krsna.
