02952nam a2200253   450000500170000000800410001702000180005804100080007608200250008410000490010924500840015826000470024230000140028952018450030365000450214865000440219365000400223765000230227765000430230094200070234399900170235095201730236795201580254020260630230153.0260630b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789383095971  aeng  a294.5512092bT23 PRA  aPrabhupada, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami9123851 aLord Caitanya :bhis life and teachings / cA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada  aMumbai :bBhaktivedanta Book Trust,c2023.  axiv, 74p.  aKrishna devotees are sometimes characterized as sentimentalists—at least by those who think that anyone who’d go out dancing and chanting in public couldn’t possibly have a sophisticated philosophy. However, in Teachings of Lord Chaitanya we find that at the heart of Krishna-bhakti is a depth of philosophical and theological understanding far beyond most critics’ power of conception.

Teachings of Lord Chaitanya (subtitled, “A Treatise on Factual Spiritual Life”) was first published in 1968. It is a summary study of the Sri Chaitanya Charitamrita, a multi-volume collection describing the life and teachings of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who popularized harinama-sankirtana, congregational chanting of God’s names, throughout India during the fifteenth century. His movement bewildered the religious establishment, who considered His followers “emotionalists.” Mahaprabhu reminded them that sankirtana is recommended in the Vedas—the most comprehensive and time-honored spiritual writings on earth—as the primary process of God-realization for the modern era.

Teachings of Lord Chaitanya summarizes Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s conversations with influential scholars—the logician Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya and the Mayavadi sannyasi Prakashananda Sarasvati—as well as His closest followers, government leaders like Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami, and Ramananda Raya. The subject of their talks is Krishna-bhakti, devotional service to Krishna, the Supreme Person.

In Teachings of Lord Chaitanya readers will find some of the most elaborate and ecstatic revelations of the science of God found in any spiritual tradition. Srila Prabhupada often referred to it as “post-graduate” theological study—with the Bhagavad-gita as the undergraduate text, and the Srimad-Bhagavatam as the graduate-level course material. 4aChaitanya, 1486-1534 xTeachings 926463 4aChaitanya, 1486-1534 xBiography926464 4aChaitanya (Sect) xDoctrines926439 4aBhakti-yoga926427 4aVaishnavism x Historyx India 926465  cBK  c33501d33501  00104070aCLIBbCLIBcIITRPRd2026-06-30eTechnical Bureau India PVT. LTD. g110.00l1m1o294.5512092 T23 PRAp23094r2026-08-12 08:21:05s2026-08-03w2026-06-30yBK  00104070aCLIBbCLIBcIITRPRd2026-06-30eTechnical Bureau India PVT. LTD. g110.00l0o294.5512092 T23 PRAp23095r2026-06-30 23:02:48w2026-06-30yBK