# Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Adi-līlā
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<h3>Art 0007/Adi 1-6
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## Volume 1
<h3>The Panca-tattva</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974, 1996: Lord Caitanya and His associates chanted and danced again and again and thus made it easier to drink nectarean love of Godhead.*
<h3>Gaura-Nitai</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1996: Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda have arisen like the sun and moon to dissipate the darkness of ignorance.*
<h3>The Five Tattvas</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2 1974, 1996: The Supreme Energetic, the Personality of Godhead, manifesting in order to enjoy five kinds of pastimes, appears as the Pañca-tattva.*
<h3>Prakasananda Invites Lord Caitanya to a Debate</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1996: Seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu sitting in an unclean place, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī caught Him by the hand and seated Him with great respect in the midst of the assembly.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Preaches to the Mayavadis</h3>
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*When the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs heard Lord Caitanya, their minds changed, and they began to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Chants with the Crowds</h3>
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*Whenever the crowds became too great, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would stand up, raise His hands and chant, “Hari! Hari!” All the people would then respond, filling the land and sky with the vibration.*
<h3>The Divine Couple</h3>
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*The Divine Couple*
<h3>Guru Instructing the Disciple</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974: Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself teaches us as the instructing spiritual master from within and without.*
<h3>Lord Kesava</h3>
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*Dhruva prayed as follows: “My dear Lord, by Your unbroken glance You are the supreme witness of all stages of intellectual activities. You are the original Personality of Godhead, full with the six opulences of strength, wealth, fame, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation.”*
<h3>Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura</h3>
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<h3>Krsna and the Cowherd Boys Leave for the Forest</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974: In Gokula, Kṛṣṇa performs His pastimes with the cowherd boys and cowherd girls.*
<h3>Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura</h3>
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*Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja the spiritual master of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda and foremost scholar and devotee in the recent age*
<h3>Laksmi-Narayana on Svetadvipa</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974, 1996: In Śvetadvīpa, Lord Viṣṇu can be seen sitting on a throne of Śeṣa with His consort, Lakṣmī.*
<h3>Lord Balarama Appears Before Krsnadasa Kaviraja</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1996: In a dream Lord Balarāma appeared before Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja and said, "O my dear Kṛṣṇadāsa, go to Vṛndāvana, for there you will attain all things."*
<h3>Advaita Acarya Calls for the Lord</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974, 1996: Advaita Ācārya offered tulasī buds in Ganges water and appealed to Śrī Kṛṣṇa to descend.*
<h3>Yasoda Feeds Krsna</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1996: Mother Yaśodā regards Kṛṣṇa not as God but as her beloved son, and thus she nourishes and protects Him, thinking Him utterly helpless.*
<h3>Radha-Krsna as Lord Caitanya</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974: Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one, but They have assumed two bodies. Now They have appeared in one body as Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.*
<h3>Krsna Meets the Gopis at Kuruksetra</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974, 1996: The gopīs saw their beloved Kṛṣṇa at Kurukṣetra after a long separation.*
<h3>Navadvipa and Goloka Vrndavana</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974: Lord Caitanya appeared with the sentiment of Rādhā and preached the chanting of the holy name.*
<h3>Gaura Kisora Dasa Babaji</h3>
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*Śrīla Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja the spiritual master of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja and intimate student of Śrīla Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda*
<h3>Bhaktivinoda Thakura portrait</h3>
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*Śrīla Ṭhākura Bhaktivinoda, the pioneer of the program to benedict the entire world with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.*
## Volume 2
<h3>Lord Caitanya Embraces Sanatana Gosvami</h3>
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*As soon as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw Sanātana Gosvāmī in the courtyard, He hastily went up to him and embraced him in ecstatic love.*
<h3>Sr Caitanya Mahaprabhu Dancing</h3>
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*Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu appeared five hundred years ago in West Bengal, India, to propagate the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa all over the world.*
<h3>The Panca-tattva</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1974, 1996: Lord Caitanya and His associates chanted and danced again and again and thus made it easier to drink nectarean love of Godhead.*
<h3>Nimai Dreams of Visvarupa</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2: Lord Caitanya told His parents that He had dreamt His elder brother Viśvarūpa took Him away and asked Him to accept the renounced order of life, sannyāsa.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Reveals the Universal Form to Advaita Acarya</h3>
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*One day Advaita Ācārya requested Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to display the universal form He had shown Arjuna, and the Lord kindly complied.*
<h3>Devotees Watching Balarama-Yamuna Lila</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2, Adi 3: While Lord Caitanya was in the ecstasy of Baladeva, all the devotees assembled together and danced, overwhelmed with ecstasy.*
<h3>Radha-Govinda in Vrndavana</h3>
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*Among the many transcendental lovers of Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs [cowherd girls of
Vṛndāvana are the best, and among the gopīs Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the best.*
<h3>The Five Tattvas</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2 1974, 1996: The Supreme Energetic, the Personality of Godhead, manifesting in order to enjoy five kinds of pastimes, appears as the Pañca-tattva.*
<h3>Prakasananda Invites Lord Caitanya to a Debate</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1 1996: Seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu sitting in an unclean place, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī caught Him by the hand and seated Him with great respect in the midst of the assembly.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Preaches to the Mayavadis</h3>
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*When the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs heard Lord Caitanya, their minds changed, and they began to chant the holy name of Kṛṣṇa.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Chants with the Crowds</h3>
![[0030_Adi-2-6.jpg]]
*Whenever the crowds became too great, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu would stand up, raise His hands and chant, “Hari! Hari!” All the people would then respond, filling the land and sky with the vibration.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Lifts the Body of Haridasa Thakura</h3>
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*Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu raised up the body of Haridāsa Ṭhākura and began to dance in the courtyard in great ecstatic love.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Exhibits His Varaha Form</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2 1974, 1996: Lord Caitanya exhibited His Varāha form in the house of Murāri Gupta, the twenty-first branch of the Śrī Caitanya tree.*
<h3>Sacimata Sees the Empty Offering Plate</h3>
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*Śacīmātā saw that the food had actually been eaten by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, although He was far away in Jagannātha Purī.*
<h3>Sikhi Mahiti's Dream</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 1: Śikhi Māhiti dreamed that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had embraced him after entering the body of Lord Jagannātha and again coming out.*
<h3>Arati for Govindaji</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2: In the temple of Govindajī, thousands of servitors always render service to the Lord, who is seated on a golden throne bedecked with jewels.*
<h3>Krsnadasa Kaviraja Receives the Blessings of Sri Madana-mohana</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2 1996: When Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja prayed to the Deity of Madana-mohana for permission to write Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, a garland from His neck slipped down, signifying assent, and the priest respectfully placed it on Kṛṣṇadāsa's neck.*
<h3>Māyādevī Tests Haridāsa Ṭhākura</h3>
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*While chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra in Benāpola, Haridāsa Ṭhākura was personally tested by Māyādevī herself.*
<h3>Sita Thakurani Comes to See Baby Nimai</h3>
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*Sītādevī could see that, except for a difference in color, child Nimāi was directly Kṛṣṇa of Gokula Himself.*
<h3>Sacimata and Nimai</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2: Mother Śacī snatched the dirt from the hands of the Lord and asked why He was eating it.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Stole Lord Siva's Offerings</h3>
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*The Lord would take all the offerings the girls had brought for Lord Śiva.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Talks with Chand Kazi</h3>
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*Lord Caitanya said to the Kazi, “Because you have chanted three holy names of the Lord – ‘Hari,’ ‘Kṛṣṇa’ and ‘Nārāyaṇa’ – you are undoubtedly the most fortunate and pious.”*
## Volume 3
<h3>Nimai Dreams of Visvarupa</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2: Lord Caitanya told His parents that He had dreamt His elder brother Viśvarūpa took Him away and asked Him to accept the renounced order of life, sannyāsa.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Reveals the Universal Form to Advaita Acarya</h3>
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*One day Advaita Ācārya requested Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to display the universal form He had shown Arjuna, and the Lord kindly complied.*
<h3>Devotees Watching Balarama-Yamuna Lila</h3>
![[0026_Adi-3-6.jpg]]
*EN CC Adi 2, Adi 3: While Lord Caitanya was in the ecstasy of Baladeva, all the devotees assembled together and danced, overwhelmed with ecstasy.*
<h3>The Five Tattvas</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2 1974, 1996: The Supreme Energetic, the Personality of Godhead, manifesting in order to enjoy five kinds of pastimes, appears as the Pañca-tattva.*
<h3>Sita Thakurani Comes to See Baby Nimai</h3>
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*Sītādevī could see that, except for a difference in color, child Nimāi was directly Kṛṣṇa of Gokula Himself.*
<h3>Sacimata and Nimai</h3>
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*EN CC Adi 2: Mother Śacī snatched the dirt from the hands of the Lord and asked why He was eating it.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Stole Lord Siva's Offerings</h3>
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*The Lord would take all the offerings the girls had brought for Lord Śiva.*
<h3>Lord Caitanya Talks with Chand Kazi</h3>
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*Lord Caitanya said to the Kazi, “Because you have chanted three holy names of the Lord – ‘Hari,’ ‘Kṛṣṇa’ and ‘Nārāyaṇa’ – you are undoubtedly the most fortunate and pious.”*
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