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Sri Caitanya-caritamrta 17 Volume Set (1974 Edition)

NEW PRINTING OF ORIGINAL EDITION

The life and teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu in 17 volumes featuring the Bengali text with English equivalents, translation and elaborate commentary. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of beautiful paintings and photographs. Original 1974 edition.

Author: A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Format: 17 Volume Set, Hard Cover, A5 (5.8" x 8.3")
Pages: 400 Pages / Volume on average
ISBN: 0-912776-63-3

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta is the principal work on the life and teachings of Sri Krishna Caitanya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing as His own devotee. He was the pioneer of a great social and religious movement beginning in India about 500 years ago that has directly and indirectly influenced the course of religious and philosophical thinking throughout the world.

While the west was exploring the physical world, in India Sri Krishna Caitanya was exploring inward, exhibiting unparalleled spiritual potency, and discovering the truths of consciousness and transcendental reality.

As a young boy Sri Caitanya overwhelmed and astounded scholars, establishing His own school at the age of sixteen. Within His lifetime He transformed India in four respects: philosophically, by defeating the greatest philosophers of His day; socially, by opposing the blindly rigid caste system; politically, by organizing India's first civil disobedience movement against repression by the Mohammedan government; and spiritually, by freely distributing nonsectarian love of God. Sri Caitanya-caritamrtapresents Sri Caitanya as the Golden Avatar, the incarnation of Krishna in this age in the form of His devotee.

Srila Prabhupada at Bhaktivedanta Manor London

Lord Chaitanya introduced the chanting of the holy names of God as the prescribed method of God-realization for our time. He began what is today called the Hare Krishna movement, since the movement's founder, Srila Prabhupada, comes in the Chaitanya line of spiritual masters.

This English translation with commentary, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, reveals his consummate Bengali and Sanskrit scholarship, his intimate familiarity with the precepts of Sri Chaitanya, and his pure devotion to God.

Exact Reproduction of Original Books:

This Caitanya-caritamrta set is an exact replica of the first printing by Bhaktivedanta Book Trust in 1974-1975. All original color plates are included.

The pastimes of Lord Caitanya are divided into three divisions: Adi-lila (the pastimes in the beginning), Madhya-lila (the pastimes in the middle) and Antya-lila (the pastimes at the end).

	Adi-lila Volume 1 The Spiritual Masters Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Is the Supreme Personality of Godhead The External Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance The Confidential Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama The Glories of Sri Advaita Acarya.
	Adi-lila Volume 2 Lord Caitanya in Five Features The Author Receives the Orders of Krishna and Guru The Tree of Devotional Service The Trunk, Branches and Sub-branches of the Caitanya Tree The Expansions of Lord Nityananda.
	Adi-lila Volume 3 The Expansions of Advaita Acarya and Gadadhara Pandita The Advent of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Lord Caitanya's Childhood Pastimes The Lord's Pauganda-lila The Pastimes of the Lord in His Childhood and Youth.
	Madhya-lila Volume 1 The Later Pastimes of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu The Ecstatic Manifestations of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Stay at the House of Advaita Acarya.
	Madhya-lila Volume 2 Sri Madhavendra Puri's Devotional Service The Activities of Saksi-gopala The Liberation of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya.
	Madhya-lila Volume 3 The Lord's Tour of South India Talks Between Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Ramananda Raya Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's Travels to the Holy Places.
	Madhya-lila Volume 4 The Lord's Return to Jagannatha Puri The Beda-kirtana Pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
	Madhya-lila Volume 5 The Cleansing of the Gundica Temple The Ecstatic Dancing of the Lord at Ratha-yatra Performance of the Vrndavana Pastimes.