Teachings of Lord Caitanya — Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu instructed His disciples to write books on the Science of Krishna, a task which those who follow Him have continued to carry out down to the present day.
The elaborations and expositions on the philosophy taught by Lord Caitanya are in fact most voluminous, exacting and consistent due to the system of disciplic succession. Although Lord Caitanya was widely renowned as a scholar in His youth, He left only eight verses, called Siksastaka. These eight verses clearly reveal His mission and precepts. These supremely valuable prayers are translated herein.
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Glory to the Sri Krishna sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. This sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the nectar for which we are always anxious.
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O my Lord, Your holy name alone can render all benediction to living beings, and thus You have hundreds and millions of names like Krishna and Govinda. In these transcendental names You have invested all Your transcendental energies. There are not even hard and fast rules for chanting these names. O my Lord, out of kindness You enable us to easily approach You by Your holy names, but I am so unfortunate that I have no attraction for them.
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One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree, devoid of all sense of false prestige and should be ready to offer all respect to others. In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.
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O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor do I desire beautiful women, nor do I want any number of followers. I only want Your causeless devotional service birth after birth.
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O son of Maharaja Nanda [Krishna], I am Your eternal servitor, yet somehow or other I have fallen into the ocean of birth and death. Please pick me up from this ocean of death and place me as one of the atoms at Your lotus feet.
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O my Lord, when will my eyes be decorated with tears of love flowing constantly when I chant Your holy name? When will my voice choke up, and when will the hairs of my body stand on end at the recitation of Your name?
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O Govinda! Feeling Your separation, I am considering a moment to be like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence.
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I know no one but Krishna as my Lord, and He shall remain so even if He handles me roughly by His embrace or makes me brokenhearted by not being present before me. He is completely free to do anything and everything, for He is always my worshipful Lord unconditionally.
source: Teachings of Lord Caitanya
pamho prabhus agtACBSP,
PAPAMOCANI EKADASI KI JAI,
the greatest mercy we can get is to make the right decision what to do next in order to advance our spiritual consciousness, Krishna consciousness.
SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA are so merciful that even a blind and lame man who daily chants Hare Krsna can figure very clearly that although we are swimming against the terrible current of Fiskcon’s kali-yuga hoaxers, still the bhakti plant is growing properly at Iskcon Bangalore because they are sincere.
SRILA PRABHUPADA used to say that SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA make the sincere devotees to become convinced that in this world without Krsna consciousness everything is vacant. Therefore sincere devotees hurry up to surrender unto HIM.
SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU left only Siksastakam – eight instructions to follow – and the six Gosvamis of Vrindavan gave to the world the full purport of all the sastras in line with the instructions of Siksastakam.
Therefore all spiritual power is in the instruction of SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA’s vani sat-sanga and SRILA PRABHUPADA’s books where pure love for SRI GAURANGA is nicely explained by getting the enlightenment of the best saintly paramahamsa.
Lord SRI SRI GURU GAURANGA ki jai, param vijayate sri krsna sankirtanam will triumph in spite of fiskcon’s misconduct.
ys a.c. seva das
haribol