Introduction 3
beautiful women. Every male is bound up by sex life; and therefore sex life
should be controlled. Unrestricted sex life puts you fully in the clutches of
Maya. Lord Chaitanya got away from this Maya at the age of twenty-four—
His wife was sixteen and his mother seventy, and He was the only male of the
family ; He was a Brahmin, and not rich—but He took Sannyasa, the renounced
order, and didn’t care for the Maya of wife and mother.

If you want to become fully Krishna conscious, you have to give up the
shackles of Maya. Or, if you remain with Maya, you should live in such a
way that there is no illusion. Lord Chaitanya had many house-holders among
His closest devotees. Yet one renounced devotee of His, Junior Haridas, who
was important for being a good Kirtan singer, glanced lustfully at a young
woman, and he was at once rejected by Lord Chaitanya: “You are living with
Me in the renounced order, and yet looking at a woman with lust.” This
Junior Haridas later committed suicide in despair over his separation from
Chaitanya. Other devotees had approached Chaitanya and asked Him to
forgive Junior Haridas, but Chaitanya replied, “You all go live with him and
forgive him. I’ll stay alone.” And when the news of Junior Haridas’ suicide
reached Him, Lord Chaitanya, Who was aware of everything that was hap-
pening, said, “Very good, that is very good.” A householder devotee of His
pleased Chaitanya, and Chaitanya, on learning of the devotee’s wife being
pregnant, asked that the baby be given a certain auspicious name. So He
approved of householders, having sex in a regulated way; but He was strict—
like a thunderbolt—with those of the renounced order who cheated by the
method known as “drinking water underwater while taking a bath on a fast
day.”

From Chaitanya Charitamrita we learn how Chaitanya has taught people
to become immortal. Krishna and all reformers also taught this to people;
They are mortified that people should prolong their mortal life, instead of
arranging it so as to make the next life immortal.

So Chaitanya Charitamrita means the Immortal Character of the Living
Force. The Supreme Living Force is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
There are innumerable living entities, all individual. This is very easy to
understand: We are all different, in thought, in desires—and the Supreme
Lord is also an individual Person, like you and me. But He is the Leader.
No one can excel Him. Among us, one can excel another in one capacity or
another. Similarly, the Lord is individual, but He is Supreme. Achyuta is
another name for Krishna—The Infallible. In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna had
a delusion, but Krishna had none. God is infalliable. In the Gita He states:
