Chaitanya Mahaprabhu !

The Krsna Consciousness movement is now spread all over the world.Yet its originator, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu [Chaitanya Mahaprabhu] remains largely unknown across the World, even in India where at least the name of Lord Caitanya is widely familiar, most people know little about him, and about his activities or his message, Even persons who know something of Lord Caitanya mostly misunderstand him as merely a Great Devotee of LordKrishna, Where revealed Scriptures uphold that he is one of the supreme personality of God head which world knows

When looked into the voluminous original biographies Sri Caitanya-bhagavata and Sri Caitanya-caritamtra, which were scripted few hundreds of years ago it has revealed that Certain customs, attitudes and practices within Hindu society as recounted herein, and even the very personage of Lord Caitanya,  May seem strange to the Un acquainted .

Lord Caitanya [Lord Chaitanya / Sri Chaitanya] is known to world with many of his names, which were given to him along with his stages of life.

Lord Chaitanya’s  father  has Named him as Visvambhara, and  when he was young and by the time he entered his youth he was called Nimai Pandita by all his family, friends and his tutors. When he took Sannyasa, he was started being known as Sri Krsna Caitanya however he was known as Sri Krsna Caitanya, he was also known as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu or just Mahaprabhu. and throughout his pastimes he was known as “Gauranga”, or as “Gaurahari”, because of his Golden [awesomely beautiful] Complexion.

Sri Caitnaya prabhu spent his first 24 years in Navadvipa one of the known city of Nadia District in  West Bengal [one of the State of INDIA]. Thereafter he left his family life and accepted sannyasa. Making Puri his Headquarters, Caitanya Mahaprabhu then spent 6 years on travelling between “Vrndavana” [Vrindavana, Brindavana], West Bengal and parts of South India. For the remaining 18 years of His manifest presence he stayed in Puri, however he drifted into ever deeper trances of love of Krsna.

Biographers  have recorded that in the ecstasy of separation from Lord Krsna, sometimes the arms, legs and heard of Caitanya Mahaprabhu has found to be merged into His body in the manner [way] of a tortoise, or his limbs  would become disjointed from his body and remain connected only by skin. 

Often when Srichaitanya mahaprabhu chanted “Hare Krsna” and danced his body would be covered with goose bumps, tears would squirt from his eyes as if from a syringe, and foam would ooze from his mouth. He would jump high into the air and crash down so heavily that the earth would shake. But due to spiritual rhapsody he would feel no pain and would continue to chant Hare Krsna.

Gaudiya Vaisnava [Vaishnavism movement started by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in Bengal] authorities say that such transformations are not among those which would be possible for an ordinary human beings or a trained person and thus classify or see or discover or make out lord Caitanya as non different person from the lord Krsna.

Lord Krsna is famous known as “Syamasundara”, or he who or the one who is blackish and Beautiful. And Lord Caitanya is most famously known to his followers as  “Gaurasundara”,  which mean to the one who is with Golden complexion and Awesomely Beautiful appearing in this wonderful fair feature due to combining of Radha. Thus Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the combined form of Radha and Krsna but with the mood and complexion of Srimati Radharani, come to teach the world the  adore of Sri Radha-Krsna.

Detailed knowledge may be gathered by studying Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.