156 Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta
TRANSLATION

| again and again offer obeisances unto the Parica-tattva. Thus | think that I will

be able to describe something about the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
TEXT 171
Siaot-TIANe-r1cH BA AM |
COCMHASIAS SCS BRAT 39d ht
Sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
SYNONYMS

$ri-rapa—Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha—Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvamt;
pade—at the lotus feet; yara—whose; asa—expectation; caitanya-caritamrta—the
book named Cajtanya-caritamrta; kahe—describes; krsna-dasa—Srila Krsnadasa
Kaviraja Gosvami.

TRANSLATION

Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their

mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
PURPORT

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to preach the safkirtana movement of love of
Krsna throughout the entire world, and therefore during His presence He inspired
the sankirtana movement. Specifically, He sent Rupa Gosvami to Vrndavana and
Nityananda to Bengal and personally went to South India. In this way He kindly
left the task of preaching His cult in the rest of the world to the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness. The members of this Society must always
remember that if they stick to the regulative principles and preach sincerely accord-
ing to the instructions of the acaryas, surely they will have the profound blessings
of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and their preaching work will be successful every-
where throughout the world.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to the Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Seventh
Chapter, describing Lord Caitanya in five features.:
