Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila Quotes

“These mysteries are gradually disclosed to the various grades of devotees in proportion to the gradual development of their service attitude.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“The service of the spiritual master is essential. If there is no chance to serve the spiritual master directly, a devotee should serve him by remembering his instructions.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“one desires unalloyed devotional service, one must associate with devotees of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, for by such association only can a conditioned soul achieve a taste for transcendental love and thus revive his eternal relationship with Godhead in a specific manifestation and in terms of the specific transcendental mellow (rasa) that one has eternally inherent in him.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“defining the objective, offering benedictions and offering obeisances.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“Such remembrance destroys all difficulties and very easily enables one to fulfill his own desires.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His plenary expansions are all in the category of the Lord Himself, the energetic Absolute Truth, whereas His devotees, His eternal associates,”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“Only if I become attached to the instructions given by the six Gosvāmīs, headed by Rūpa Gosvāmī and Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, will it be possible for me to understand the conjugal love of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“The rāsa dance can be performed only by Śrī Kṛṣṇa and no one else.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila

“Taking advantage of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, many unscrupulous devotees manufacture a mahā-mantra of their own. Sometimes they sing bhaja nitāi gaura rādhe śyāma hare kṛṣṇa hare rāma or śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda hare kṛṣṇa hare rāma śrī-rādhe govinda. Actually, however, one should chant the names of the full Pañca-tattva (śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya prabhu-nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda) and then the sixteen words Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. But these unscrupulous, less intelligent men confuse the entire process. Of course, since they are also devotees they can express their feelings in that way, but the method prescribed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s pure devotees is to first chant the full Pañca-tattva mantra and then chant the mahā-mantra – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare.”
― Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila