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

243
