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8 Srimad-Bhagavatam

East Bengal He was requested by His mother to accept a second wife, and
He agreed. His second wife was Srimati Visnupriya Devi, who bore the
separation of the Lord throughout her life because the Lord took the order
of sannydsa at the age of twenty-four when Srimati Visnupriya was barely
sixteen years old.

After taking sannydsa, the Lord made His headquarters at Jagannatha
Puri due to the request of His mother, Srimati Sacidevi. The Lord remained
for twenty-four years at Pun. For six years of this time He travelled
continuously all over India (and especially throughout southern India)
preaching the Srimad-Bhagavatam.

Lord Caitanya not only preached the Srimad-Bhagavatam but propa-
gated the teaching of the Bhagavad-gita as well in the most practical way.
In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Sri Krsna is depicted as the Absolute Personality
of Godhead, and His last teachings in that great book of transcendental
knowledge instruct that one should give up all the modes of religious
activities and accept Him (Lord Sri Krsna) as the only worshipable Lord.
The Lord then assured that all His devotees would be protected from all
sorts of sinful acts and that for them there would be no cause for anxiety.

Unfortunately, despite Lord Sri Krsna’s direct order and the teachings
of the Bhagavad-gita, less intelligent people misunderstand Him to be
nothing but a great historical personality, and thus they cannot accept
Him as the original Personality of Godhead. Such men with a poor fund
of knowledge are misled by many nondevotees. Thus the teachings of the
Bhagavad-gita were misinterpreted even by great scholars. After the disap-
pearance of Lord Sri Krsna there were hundreds of commentaries on the
Bhagavad-gita by many erudite scholars, and almost every one of them was
motivated by self-interest.

Lord SriCaitanya Mahaprabhu is the selfsame Lord Sri Krsna. This time,
however, He appeared as a great devotee of the Lord in order to preach
to the people in general, as well as to religionists and philosophers, about
the transcendental position of Sri Krsna, the primeval Lord and the cause
of all causes. The essence of His preaching is that Lord Sri Krsna, who
appeared at Vrajabhimi (Vrndavana) as the son of the King of Vraja
(Nanda Maharaja), is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and is therefore
worshipable by all. Vrndavana-dhama is nondifferent from the Lord because
the name, fame, form and place where the Lord manifests Himself are all
identical with the Lord as absolute knowledge. Therefore Vrndavana-dhama
is as worshipable as the Lord. The highest form of transcendental worship
of the Lord was exhibited by the damsels of Vrajabhiimi in the form of
pure affection for the Lord, and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu recom-
