# Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā **76 images** --- <h3>Art 0001/Mad 3-3</h3> ![[Mad-3-3.jpg]] <h3>Art 0001/Mad 4-5</h3> ![[Mad-4-5.jpg]] <h3>Art 0001/Mad 5-9</h3> ![[Mad-5-9.jpg]] <h3>Art 0002/Mad 1-3</h3> ![[Mad-1-3.jpg]] <h3>Art 0002/Mad 7-4</h3> ![[Mad-7-4.jpg]] <h3>Art 0006/Mad 2-4</h3> ![[Mad-2-4.jpg]] <h3>Art 0006/Mad 2-5</h3> ![[Mad-2-5.jpg]] <h3>Art 0007/Mad -2 F.C.</h3> ![[Mad--2-F.C.jpg]] <h3>Art 0007/Mad 1-3</h3> ![[Mad-1-3_2.jpg]] <h3>Art 0008/Mad 2-7</h3> ![[Mad-2-7.jpg]] <h3>Art 0008/Mad 3-8</h3> ![[Mad-3-8.jpg]] <h3>Art 0009/Mad 4-4</h3> ![[Mad-4-4.jpg]] <h3>Art 0021/Mad 9-2</h3> ![[Mad-9-2.jpg]] <h3>Gopala Deity and Madhavendra Puri</h3> ![[Mad-2-2.jpg]] <h3>Sri Caitanya and His Associates Dance Before Lord Jagannatha</h3> ![[Mad-3-1.jpg]] <h3>Lord Caitanya Blesses Vasudeva Datta</h3> ![[Mad-3-2.jpg]] <h3>Krsna and Arjuna Meet Maha-visnu and the Brahmana's Sons</h3> ![[Mad-3-5.jpg]] <h3>Lord Caitanya Meets Siva and Parvati</h3> ![[Mad-4-2.jpg]] <h3>Agnideva Returns Sita to Rama</h3> ![[Mad-4-3.jpg]] <h3>The Reunion of Lord Caitanya with His Devotees</h3> ![[Mad-4-7.jpg]] <h3>Lord Caitanya Dances Before the Ratha-yatra Cart</h3> ![[Mad-5-4.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: As Lord Caitanya danced before Lord Jagannātha in the Ratha-yātrā festival, He displayed various symptoms of transcendental ecstasy.* <h3>Sri Caitanya Takes an Evening Bath</h3> ![[Mad-6-7.jpg]] ## Volume 1 <h3>The Five Tattvas</h3> ![[0029_TLC-17.jpg]] *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>Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Receives the Lord's Varsana</h3> ![[0203_Mad-2-f.c.jpg]] *When Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya saw the form of Lord Kṛṣṇa manifested in Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he immediately fell down flat to offer Him obeisances.* <h3>Krsna Comes to Madhavendra Puri</h3> ![[0203_Mad-2-1.jpg]] *When Mādhavendra Purī saw the beauty of the young boy who had approached him and heard His sweet words, he forgot all hunger and thirst.* <h3>Madana-mohana in the Moonlight</h3> ![[0236_RAD-17.jpg]] *Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja, the author of Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, declares, “Glory to the all-merciful Rādhā and Madana-mohana! I am lame and ill advised, yet They are my directors, and Their lotus feet are everything to me.”* <h3>Radha-Gopinatha with the Gopis</h3> ![[Mad-1-2.jpg]] *Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja prays, “May Gopīināthajī, who attracts all the gopīs with the song of His flute, be merciful upon us.”* <h3>The Six Gosvamis</h3> ![[Mad-1-3_0.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 1 1975: The six Gosvāmīs studied various Vedic literatures and picked up the essence of them, the devotional service of the Lord.* <h3>The Six Gosvamis</h3> ![[Mad-1-3_1.jpg]] *The Six Gosvāmīs studied various Vedic literatures and picked up the essence of them, devotional service to the Lord.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Reads Rupa Gosvami's Verse</h3> ![[Mad-1-4.jpg]] *While Lord Caitanya was in an ecstatic state after reading the verse, Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī came and immediately fell down on the floor like a rod.* <h3>Nrsimhananda Brahmacari Decorates Lord Caitanya's Road to Vrndavana</h3> ![[Mad-1-5.jpg]] *When Nṛsiṁhānanda Brahmacārī heard that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu would go to Vṛndāvana, he became very pleased and mentally began decorating the way there.* <h3>Krsna Plays His Flute With a Calf</h3> ![[Mad-1-6.jpg]] *“O Kṛṣṇa, the player of the flute, the sweetness of Your early age is wonderful within these three worlds.”* <h3>Lord Nityananda and Advaita Acarya Have a Food Fight</h3> ![[Mad-1-7.jpg]] *At the feast offered by Advaita Ācārya to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Nityānanda Prabhu, Nityānanda Prabhu jokingly said to Advaita Ācārya, “My belly is not yet filled up. Please take away Your food. I have not taken the least of it.” After saying this, Nityānanda Prabhu took a handful of rice and threw it on the floor in front of Him. When two or four grains of the thrown rice touched Advaita Ācārya’s body, the Ācārya began to dance in various ways with the rice still stuck to Him.* <h3>Ksira-cora Gopinatha Steals Sweet Rice</h3> ![[Mad-2-3.jpg]] *Following the instructions given him in a dream, the priest looked behind a cloth curtain and found the pot of sweet rice the Deity had stolen for Mādhavendra Purī.* <h3>The Brahmana Brings Saksi-gopala</h3> ![[Mad-2-6.jpg]] *All the townspeople offered their respectful obeisances when they saw the witness Gopāla standing near the young brāhmaṇa.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Listens to Sarvabhauma for Seven Days</h3> ![[Mad-2-8.jpg]] *For seven days Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continually listened to Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya expound upon the Vedānta philosophy.* <h3>Krsna Carries His Father's Wooden Shoes</h3> ![[Mad-2-9.jpg]] *EN SB 10.2 1977: In any situation, Kṛṣṇa is always the infinitely powerful Supreme Personality of Godhead. But just to increase the ecstatic emotion of His intimate, loving devotees like Mother Yaśodā and Nanda Mahārāja, Kṛṣṇa agrees to come under their control. Sometimes Nanda Mahārāja would ask Kṛṣṇa to bring him his wooden slippers, and Kṛṣṇa, with great difficulty, would put the slippers on His head and take them to His father. At such times Nanda Mahārāja would exclaim, “My dear Yaśodā, just look at your offspring, Kṛṣṇa! See His blackish bodily luster, His eyes tinged with red color, His broad chest and His beautiful pearl ornaments. How wonderful He looks, and how He is increasing my transcendental bliss more and more!”* ## Volume 3 <h3>Lord Caitanya its Like Hanuman</h3> ![[Mad-6-2.jpg]] *Displaying the emotions of Hanumān, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took up a large tree branch and, mounting the walls of the Laṅkā fort, began to dismantle it.* <h3>Narada Muni Comes Upon Mrgari</h3> ![[0027_TLC-16.jpg]] *Nārada Muni, the sage among the demigods, happened upon the hunter Mṛgāri as he was tormenting animals by half-killing them.* <h3>Krsna Comes to Madhavendra Puri</h3> ![[0203_Mad-2-1.jpg]] *When Mādhavendra Purī saw the beauty of the young boy who had approached him and heard His sweet words, he forgot all hunger and thirst.* <h3>Sacimata Sees the Empty Offering Plate</h3> ![[Adi-2-12.jpg]] *Śacīmātā saw that the food had actually been eaten by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, although He was far away in Jagannātha Purī.* <h3>Radha-Krsna and the Gopis</h3> ![[Mad-3-6.jpg]] <h3>Gundica-marjana</h3> ![[Mad-5-2.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: Amid ecstatic chanting of the holy name of the Lord, Caitanya Mahāprabhu led His devotees in cleansing the Guṇḍicā temple.* <h3>Pratraparudra Sweeps the Street Before Jagannātha</h3> ![[Mad-5-3.jpg]] *King Pratāparudra personally engaged in Lord Jagannātha’s service by cleaning the road with a broom that had a golden handle.* <h3>Prataparudra Massages Lord Caitanya's Feet</h3> ![[Mad-5-6.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: King Pratāparudra recited the verses of Kṛṣṇa’s rāsa-līlā as he expertly massaged Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s legs in the garden.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Moves the Ratha Cart With His Head</h3> ![[Mad-5-7.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: Even elephants had been unable to move the cart, yet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu easily pushed it with His head.* <h3>Water Pastimes in Indradyumna Lake</h3> ![[Mad-5-8.jpg]] *In Indradyumna Lake, near Guṇḍicā temple, Lord Caitanya and His devotees would enjoy splashing one another as they reenacted the pastimes of Vṛndāvana.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Throwing a Rod</h3> ![[Mad-6-1.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wheeled and threw the rod, sometimes over His head, sometimes behind His back, something in front of Him, sometimes behind Him, sometimes to the side, and sometimes between His legs.* <h3>Sarvabhauma and His Wife Offer a Feast to Lord Caitanya</h3> ![[Mad-6-4.jpg]] *Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya and his wife felt mortified when their son-in-law Amogha insulted Lord Caitanya as He was enjoying the feast they had prepared for Him.* <h3>Caitanya Mahaprabhu Blesses Amogha</h3> ![[Mad-6-5.jpg]] *EN CC: Lord Caitanya touched Amogha, who had fallen ill with cholera, and said, “Amogha, get up and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra! If you do so, Kṛṣṇa will unfailingly bestow mercy upon you.”* <h3>Jagannatha and Balarama Slap Pundarika’s Cheeks</h3> ![[Mad-6-6.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: The brothers Lord Jagannātha and Balarāma came to Puṇḍarīka Vidyānidhi and, smiling, began to slap him.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Leaves Gadadhara Pandita</h3> ![[Mad-6-8.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 3: Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu got into a boat, and Gadādhara Paṇḍita at once fell unconscious in the ecstasy of separation.* ## Volume 4 <h3>Lord Caitanya Embraces Sanatana Gosvami</h3> ![[0023_TLC-5.jpg]] *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>The Nawab Rebukes Sanatana Gosvami</h3> ![[0025_TLC-4.jpg]] *The Nawab rebuked Sanātana Gosvāmī: “I am depending on you to carry out so many of my activities, but you have given up your governmental duties to sit here at home. What is your intention?”* <h3>The Supersoul</h3> ![[0032_SB-2_1_3.jpg]] *A plenary portion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead known as the Supersoul resides within the body in the region of the heart. He measures about eight inches and has four hands, carrying a lotus, a wheel of a chariot, a conchshell, and a club respectively. His mouth expresses His happiness, His eyes are spread like lotus petals and His garments, bedecked with valuable jewels, are yellowish like the saffron of a kadamba flower. His ornaments are all made of gold, set with jewels, and He wears a glowing headdress and earrings. On His chest He wears the Kaustubha jewel engraved with a beautiful calf, on His shoulders He wears other jewels, and around His neck He wears a garland of fresh flowers. About His waist He wears an ornamental wreath; on His fingers, rings studded with valuable jewels. His leglets, His bangles, His oiled hair curling with bluish tint and His beautiful smiling face are all very pleasing. The Lord's magnanimous pastimes and the glowing glancing of His smiling face all indicate His extensive benedictions.* <h3>Yasoda Binds Krsna</h3> ![[0080_SB-1-2-3.jpg]] *With maternal affection, Queen Kuntī here remembers another of Lord Kṛṣṇa's bewildering pastimes. One day, the Lord, playing just like a human child, spoiled the stocked butter of Mother Yaśodā by breaking the pots and distributing the contents to His friends and playmates, including the celebrated monkeys of Vṛndāvana, who took full advantage of the Lord's munificence. Mother Yaśodā saw this, and out of her pure love she wanted to make a show of punishment for her transcendental child. She took a rope and threatened to tie Him up, as is generally done with ordinary children who have been naughty. Seeing the rope in her hands, the Lord bowed down His head and began to weep, and as tears rolled down His cheeks they washed off the black ointment smeared about His beautiful eyes. Because Queen Kuntī felt maternal love for Kṛṣṇa, she adored this image of Him. But because she knew Kṛṣṇa's supreme position, she was amazed that although He was feared by fear personified, He appeared to be afraid of His mother, who wanted to punish Him just like an ordinary child.* <h3>Sanatana Gosvami Bows to Lord Caitanya With Straw in His Teeth</h3> ![[0204_Mad-8-7.jpg]] *Putting a straw in his mouth and bowing down, Sanātana Gosvāmī clasped the lotus feet of Lord Caitanya and humbly spoke as follows: “I was born in a low family, and my associates are all low-class men. I myself am fallen in the well of sinful materialism. I do not know what is beneficial or detrimental for me. Nonetheless, people consider me a learned scholar, and I also think of myself as such. Out of Your causeless mercy You have delivered me from the materialistic path. Now, by the same causeless mercy, please tell me what my duty is. Who am I? Why do the threefold miseries always give me trouble? If I do not know this, how can I be benefited?”* <h3>Caitanya Mahaprabhu Dances with the Animals</h3> ![[Mad-7-1.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 4: Sometimes Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu chanted very loudly while passing through the Jhārikhaṇḍa forest on His way to Vṛndāvana. Hearing His sweet voice, all the does came near Him and followed Him left and right. While reciting a verse with great curiosity, the Lord patted them. Then five or seen tigers came and began to follow the Lord. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “Chant Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!” the tigers and deer began to chant “Kṛṣṇa!” and dance. When all the tigers and does danced and jumped, Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya saw them and was struck with wonder. Indeed, the tigers and deer began to embrace one another, and touching mouths, they began to kiss. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw all this fun, He smiled.* <h3>Rupa Gosvami Faints and Lord Caitanya's Departure</h3> ![[Mad-7-11.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 4: After embracing Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu got into a boat, and Rūpa Gosvāmī fainted on the spot.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Is Welcomed in Vrndavana</h3> ![[Mad-7-2.jpg]] *When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wandered in the Vṛndāvana forests, herds of grazing cows saw Him and began to moo loudly, causing Him to become stunned with ecstatic love. As the Lord sweetly chanted the holy name in the forest, all the doe and bucks approached Him, and when they saw His face they began to lick His body. Bumblebees and birds like the parrot and cuckoo began to sing loudly on the fifth note, and the peacocks began to dance in front of the Lord. Upon seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the trees and creepers became jubilant. Their twigs stood up, they began to shed tears of ecstasy in the form of honey, and, overloaded with fruits and flowers, they bowed down to His lotus feet and greeted Him with various presentations as if they were friends. Thus all moving and nonmoving living entities in Vṛndāvana became very jubilant to see Lord Caitanya.* <h3>Caitanya Mahaprabhu Serves at Nandagram</h3> ![[Mad-7-5.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 4: In the cave, Śri Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered His respects to the forms of Nanda and Yaśodā, and then with great ecstatic love He touched the body of Lord Kṛṣṇa.* <h3>The Pathana Soldiers Come Upon Lord Caitanya</h3> ![[Mad-7-6.jpg]] *While the Lord was unconscious in ecstasy, ten cavalry soldiers belonging to the Muslim Pāṭhāna military order rode up and dismounted.* <h3>Lord Caitanya Dances in the Boat With Great Ecstasy</h3> ![[Mad-7-8.jpg]] *When Lord Caitanya began to dance in the boat in great ecstasy, His heavy weight caused it to tilt and begin filling up with water.* ## Volume 5 <h3>Lord Krsna Brought Innumerable Brahmas</h3> ![[0022_TLC-9.jpg]] *“Śrī Kṛṣṇa smiled and then meditated, instantly bringing innumerable Brahmās with various numbers of heads.* <h3>Krsna and Balarama Glorify Vrndavana</h3> ![[0027_TLC-15.jpg]] *In the company of His elder brother, Balarāma, Lord Kṛṣṇa takes pleasure in glorifying the land of Vṛndāvana, its inhabitants and Balarāma Himself.* <h3>Narada Muni Comes Upon Mrgari</h3> ![[0027_TLC-16.jpg]] *Nārada Muni, the sage among the demigods, happened upon the hunter Mṛgāri as he was tormenting animals by half-killing them.* <h3>Brahma, Visnu, and Siva</h3> ![[0030_SB-1_1_9.jpg]] *The transcendental Personality of Godhead accepts the three qualitative forms of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara.* <h3>Devotee Practicing Arcana</h3> ![[0070_BG--77.jpg]] *If with love and devotion one offers the Supreme Lord, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, a leaf, flower, fruit, or water, He will accept it.* <h3>Radha and Krsna on a Swing</h3> ![[0092_NOD-1st-ed.-FC.jpg]] *Mādhurya-rasa (Devotional service in conjugal love): "The intimate mellow of devotion to the Supreme in conjugal love is established by Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, but such feelings are not at all material." Unless a person frees himself from all lusty desires for material sense enjoyment, he can never experience, or even understand, pure love of God in the conjugal rasa.* <h3>A Serpent Swallows Nanda Maharaja</h3> ![[0096_KB1-39-pg.226.jpg]] *EN KB: Kṛṣṇa appeared on the scene and touched the serpent with His lotus feet.* <h3>Sanatana Gosvami Offers Obeisances to Lord Caitanya</h3> ![[0204_Mad-9-2.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 5: Sanātana Gosvāmī said, “My dear Lord, I am a very lowborn, downtrodden person. Nonetheless, You have taught me conclusions unknown even to Lord Brahmā. These conclusions are the ocean of the ambrosia of truth. My mind is unable to approach even a drop that ocean. If You want to make a lame man like me dance, kindly bless me by playing Your lotus feet on my head and telling me, ‘Let whatever I have instructed all be fully manifested unto you.’ By blessing me in this way, You will give me strength to describe all this.” Lord Caitanya then placed His hands on the head of Sanātana Gosvāmī and blessed him, saying, “Let all these instructions be manifested to you.”* <h3>Sankirtana at the Bindu Madhava Temple</h3> ![[0204_Mad-9-6.jpg]] *EN CC Madhya 5: Upon reaching the temple of Lord Bindu Mādhava, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, seeing the beauty of the Deity, became overwhelmed with ecstatic love. He then began to dance in the courtyard of the temple. There were four people accompanying Him, and these were Candraśekhara, Paramānanda Purī, Tapana Miśra, and Sanātana Gosvāmī. They were all chanting, “Haraye namaḥ kṛṣṇa yādavāya namaḥ, gopāla govinda rāma śrī-madhusūdhana.” In all directions, hundreds of thousands of people began to chant, “Hari! Hari!” Thus there arose a tumultuous and auspicious sound that filled the entire universe.* <h3>Prakasananda Clasps Lord Caitanya's Lotus Feet</h3> ![[Antya-9-7.jpg]] *The leading impersonalist, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, immediately came forward and clasped the Lord’s lotus feet, begging forgiveness for his offenses.* <h3>Narada and Parvata Munis Meet the Saintly Mrgari</h3> ![[Mad-9-5.jpg]] *One day Nārada Muni requested his friend Parvata Muni to go with him to see his disciple Mṛgāri the hunter. As the saintly sages approached the hunter’s place, Mṛgāri saw them and quickly began to run toward his spiritual master. But he could not fall down and offer obeisances because ants were running hither and thither around his feet. Only after whisking them away with a cloth did Mṛgāri fall down flat to offer his obeisances.* ## Volume 9 <h3>Water Pastimes in Indradyumna Lake</h3> ![[Mad-5-8.jpg]] *In Indradyumna Lake, near Guṇḍicā temple, Lord Caitanya and His devotees would enjoy splashing one another as they reenacted the pastimes of Vṛndāvana.* ## Volume 1975 <h3>Sri Sanatana Gosvami Approaches Lord Caitanya with Straw in His Teeth</h3> ![[Mad-8-7.jpg]] --- ## Copyright Notice All artwork on this page is © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. All rights reserved. These images are reproduced here with permission for educational and devotional purposes. The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc. 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