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In the latter part of the fifteenth century, India’s most extraordinary political, cultural, and religious reformer appeared in a small …
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Five hundred years before Gandhi, this remarkable personality inaugurated a massive nonviolent civil disobedience movement. He swept aside the stifling …
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The Vedic scriptures of India had long predicted His birth, which occurred in 1486 in Māyāpur, a quarter of the …
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Śrī Caitanya had little patience with ritualistic religious functions, and as He grew to young manhood, He began to carry …
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Śrī Caitanya rapidly acquired many followers, who immediately took up the chanting, sometimes performing it in their homes and sometimes …
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Agreeing that Śrī Caitanya and His followers threatened the established order the Kazi tried to suppress the growing saṅkīrtana movement. …
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When informed of the raid, Śrī Caitanya immediately organized the largest peaceful civil disobedience movement in Indian history up to …
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At Śrī Caitanya’s invitation, however, the Kazi appeared, and the two began negotiations. Speaking politely, and with great logic and …
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Not long after this important victory in His native town, Śrī Caitanya began to spread His movement all over India. …
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Throughout His travels, Śrī Caitanya struggled against the Māyāvādīs and succeeded in convincing many of them by the strength of …
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But the biggest confrontation with the Māyāvādīs was yet to come, and it occurred in the city that had for …
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The Lord’s followers were extremely unhappy about the Māyāvādīs’ constant criticism of Him, so in order to pacify them He …
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Indirectly, the Lord was criticizing the Māyāvādīs for being overly proud of their dry, intellectual study of the Vedas, which …
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“In this age of Kali, there is no alternative, there is no alternative, there is no alternative for spiritual progress …
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The discussion went on for hours. Finally, in one of the most astounding religious conversions of all time, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, …
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Although Śrī Caitanya had been born a brāhmaṇa, a member of the highest caste, He always said that such designations …
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In this way, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu laid the foundation for a universal religion for all humankind – a scientific process …
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People are hungering for an experience of spirituality that transcends all boundaries. Millions are now finding that experience in the …