Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 7.171

śrī-rūpa-raghunātha-pade yāra āśa

caitanya-caritāmrita kahe krishnadāsa

SYNONYMS

śrī-rūpa — Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī; raghunātha — Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī; pade — at the lotus feet; yāra — whose; āśa — expectation; caitanya-caritāmrita — the book named Caitanya-caritāmrita; kahe — describes; krishna-dāsa — Śrīla Krishnadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī.

TRANSLATION

Praying at the lotus feet of Śrī Rūpa and Śrī Raghunātha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krishnadāsa, narrate Śrī Caitanya-caritāmrita, following in their footsteps.

PURPORT

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to preach the sańkīrtana movement of love of Krishna throughout the entire world, and therefore during His presence He inspired the sańkīrtana movement. Specifically, He sent Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī to Vrindāvana and Nityānanda to Bengal and personally went to South India. In this way He kindly left the task of preaching His cult in the rest of the world to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. The members of this Society must always remember that if they stick to the regulative principles and preach sincerely according to the instructions of the ācāryas, surely they will have the profound blessings of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and their preaching work will be successful everywhere throughout the world.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Śrī Caitanya-caritāmrita, Ādi-līlā, Seventh Chapter, describing Lord Caitanya in five features.

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