Life of Chaitanya Maha Prabhu - PART 1
THE BIRTH
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born during the period where the
world has just started realizing the development and spiritual importance and strength,
where Europe was running towards new milestones and in search of new heavens’,
India was also under a difficult situation were castism was playing an upper
hand and the Bhakti movement was just Started in the country.
During this period one person with the Name Sri Jagannatha Misra a thorough brahman and an ardent devotee of Lord Sri Krishna migrated from Bengal,
due to the movement of upper castism and different religious concerns.
From East Bengal he migrated to the city on the banks of
river Ganga in Mayapur which is one of the closest places to Navadvipa
Jagannatha Misra was
married to Sri Sacidevi who is also
ardent devotee of Lord Sri Krishna.
By the Time Sri
Jagannatha Misra reached Mayapur the Educational Ambience of the city was
by then spoiled and no one cared about the real traditional Rituals and even brahmans were little bothered about the tradition’s
and the real aim and the word of Krishna Consciousness and there were only few
seen who taught Bhagavad Gita.
The Only Person left to worship Lord Krishna ardently in and
around the city was Sri Advaita Acarya who was the leader of the only Vaishnava
Community in Navadvipa he used to preach the word of Krishna and Worship lord
Krishna with Tulasi and Ganga Water.
During the Same period Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu entered the
womb of Sacidevi and her pregnancy
endured for 13 months.
On the Full moon day and Phalguna of the year, 18th
of February 1486 AD Sri Chaitanya MahaPrabhu was born. Previously Sacimata [Sacidevi] gave birth to eight
daughters however none of the them could survive and all of them died
immediately after birth.
The Family of Jagannatha
Misra and Sacidevi named the new
born as Visvarupa Visvambhara
The Grandfather of Lord Chaitanya was one of the Known
learned astrologer of the city on making the
Nimai chart of the child he discovered and found the boy to be the personality
of God and his representation; however he kept this as a Secret to himself
As soon as Lord Chaitanya was born in the city the famine
ended in the land, there were good rains and the farmlands flourished with
crops and earth land again became happy and prosperous
During the naming Ceremony of the boy brahman’s chanted the mantra of Lord Hair and blowing counchshells
and ringing bells, and as a part of the ceremony various objects such as Grains
puffed Rice book, coin, gold, etc were placed before the new born [lord
chaitanya mahaprabhu ] and was left alone to pick anything and leaving
everything boy picked up the sacred Srimad Bhagavatam
Everyone cheered and claimed the boy to be a Distinguished Pandita,.
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