Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Mystic Saints of India: 2)

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Chaitanya Mahaprabhu The founder of the SANKIRTAN tradition in the Bhakti cult, Chaitanya was the pioneer in making Bengal and Orissa instinct with Krishna Bhakti. Himself believed to be an incarnation of Lord Krishna, Chaitanya preached the religion of single minded devotion. The book not only reveals his life-history and gives the gist of his teachings it also compares his impact upon Krishna-Bhakti now spreading all over the world.

B.K. Chaturvedi, born in a village, Holipura (Agra, UP), on August 3, a reputed family, had his education in Allahabad (M.Sc.) and Bangalore 1945 in a. (Computer programming). Having served for a couple of years in HMT, he is now a freelance author, journalist, poet and translator based in New Delhi for about a couple of decades.

He has many articles/poems and books published in both Hindi and English to his credit. Prominent among them are the metered-verse English translation of the famous epic of modern Hindi, KAMAYANI; original long poem DEHA-DANSHA; English verse translation of Sahir Ludhyanvi's famous Nazm PARCHAAINYAN; the latest being a journalistic appraisal, KARGIL BETRAYAL. He has also rendered 'SRIMADBHAGWAT GITA' into Hindi & English, published a couple of years ago. His translation, both in Hindi and English, of 'SRI RAM CHARITA MANAS' is likely to be published soon. A profic writer he often writes for TV and Radio.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is one of those luminaries in the firmament 'Pure Devotion' whose shine can never fade because what he inspired was pure love. He also introduced a novel way of achieving it: the Sankirtan or group singing or chanting one holy string of words for collective concentration. No matter how materialistic the world may become the element of yearning for union of coalescence with the Maker cannot be eliminated from human life since it is natural. This renowned medieval saint from Bengal only revived the dormant yearning in the human consciousness.

The attempt in this work has been to cover Chaitanya from all angles. What were the conditions of Bengal when he was born, why Bhakti in that era become so rampant, how Chaitanya rose from being a delinquent prankester to a noble saint are some of the questions that have been answered with an impartial analysis in this book, particularly in the backdrop require a guileless heart to get to peace of union of coalescence.

The author is grateful to all those authors whose books could provide him the relevant material to make this work a useful study of Chaitanya and of the literature related to him, for which he is indebted to his friend Dalip Mukherji, Also, he express his gratitude to Mittal Brothers of 'Books for All' who have been a great help to him. May the tribe increase.