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nindantaṁ pulakotkareṇa vikasan-nīpa-prasūna-cchaviṁ

nindantaṁ pulakotkareṇa vikasan-nīpa-prasūna-cchaviṁ
prordhvī-kṛtya-bhuja-dvayaṁ hari harīty uccair vadantaṁ muhuḥ |
nṛtyantaṁ drutam aśru-nirjhara-cayaiḥ siñcantam ūrvī-talaṁ
gāyantaṁ nija-pārṣadaiḥ parivṛtaṁ śrī-gauracandraṁ numaḥ ||
(Rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidhi: 1)

“His raised bodily hairs surpass the beauty of blooming kadamba flowers. With arms upraised, he loudly calls out, ‘Hari!’ ‘Hari!’ again and again. He dances nimbly and showers the surface of the earth with streams of tears as he sings surrounded by his associates. Let us glorify Śrī Gauracandra.”

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jīva nistārite prabhu bhramilā deśe deśe

jīva nistārite prabhu bhramilā deśe deśe |
āpane āsvādi bhakti karilā prakāśe ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.264)

“To deliver the jīvas, Prabhu travelled from country to country. By personally tasting bhakti, he illuminated it.”

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saṅkīrtanārambha-kṛte’pi gaure

saṅkīrtanārambha-kṛte’pi gaure
dhāvanti jīva-śravaṇe guṇāni |
aśuddha-cittāḥ kim u śuddha-cittāḥ
śrutvā pramattāḥ khalu te nanartuḥ ||
(Caitanya-śataka: 32)

“Even when Gaura had just begun his saṅkīrtana, the qualities [of the name] purified the ears of the jīvas. Those of impure mind, and all the more those of pure mind, upon hearing [the saṅkīrtana], became indeed maddened and danced.”

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kecid dāsyam avāpur uddhava-mukhāḥ ślāghyaṁ pare lebhire

kecid dāsyam avāpur uddhava-mukhāḥ ślāghyaṁ pare lebhire
śrīdāmādi-padaṁ vrajāmbu-dṛśāṁ bhāvaṁ bhejuḥ pare |
anye dhanyatamā dhayanti madhuraṁ rādhā-padāmbhoruhaṁ
śrī-caitanya-mahāprabhoḥ karuṇayā lokasya kāḥ sampadaḥ ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 123)

“Some, led by Uddhava, have attained servitude [to Kṛṣṇa]. Others have attained the praiseworthy position of Śrīdāma and others [i.e., friendship with Kṛṣṇa]. Others have attained the bhāva of the lotus-eyed ones of Vraja [i.e., the gopīs]. And others, the most fortunate, drink the sweetness of Rādhā’s lotus feet. What fortune has this world not attained by grace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu?”

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yathā yathā gaura-padāravinde

yathā yathā gaura-padāravinde
vindeta bhaktiṁ kṛta-puṇya-rāśiḥ |
tathā tathotsarpati hṛdy akasmād
rādhā-padāmbhoja-sudhāmburāśiḥ ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 88)

“As much as one who has performed an abundance of meritorious acts acquires bhakti to Gaura’s lotus feet, so much so the nectarean ocean of Rādhā’s lotus feet automatically swells within one’s heart.”

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premā nāmādbhutārthaḥ śravaṇa-patha-gataḥ kasya nāmnāṁ mahimnaḥ

premā nāmādbhutārthaḥ śravaṇa-patha-gataḥ kasya nāmnāṁ mahimnaḥ
ko vettā kasya vṛndāvana-vipina-mahā-mādhurīṣu praveśaḥ |
ko vā jānāti rādhāṁ parama-rasa-camatkāra-mādhurya-sīmām
ekaś caitanyacandraḥ parama-karuṇayā sarvam āviścakāra ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 130)

“Who would have heard of that amazing object [i.e., the supreme puruṣārtha] known as prema? Who would know of the name’s glory? Who would have entered the absolute sweetness of Vṛndāvana’s groves? Who would have known Rādhā, the [personified] climax of the astonishing sweetness of the supreme rasa? Only Caitanyacandra, out of his supreme compassion, has revealed all of this.”

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rakṣo-daitya-kulaṁ hataṁ kiyad idaṁ yogādi-vartma-kriyā

rakṣo-daitya-kulaṁ hataṁ kiyad idaṁ yogādi-vartma-kriyā-
mārgo vā prakaṭī-kṛtaḥ kiyad idaṁ sṛṣṭy-ādikaṁ vā kiyat |
mediny-uddharaṇādikaṁ kiyad idaṁ premojjvalāyā mahā-
bhakter vartma-karīṁ parāṁ bhagavataś caitanya-mūrtiṁ stumaḥ ||
(Caitanya-candrāmṛta: 7)

“How great is this killing of rākṣasas and Daityas? Or how great is this establishing the remedial processes of the paths of yoga and so on? Or how great is emanating and so on [manifesting, maintaining, and dissolving the material universes]? How great is saving the earth and so on? We adore only Bhagavān’s form of Śrī Caitanya, the establisher of the supreme path of bhakti resplendent with prema [i.e., in comparison to Śrī Caitanya, the best of all avatāras who has given the paramount spiritual gift, we do not highly praise the acts of Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, and others (who killed demons), Kapila and others (who taught yoga and other disciplines), Brahmā, Viṣṇu, and Śiva (who manifest and oversee saṁsāra), or Varāha and others (who saved the earth and performed other feats)].”

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caitanya-samāna āra kṛpālu vadānya

caitanya-samāna āra kṛpālu vadānya |
bhakta-vatsala nāhi āra trijagate anya ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.268)

“There is no one else in the three worlds as gracious and magnanimous as, or more affectionate to bhaktas than, Caitanya.”

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sañcārya rāmābhidha-bhakta-meghe

sañcārya rāmābhidha-bhakta-meghe
sva-bhakti-siddhānta-cayāmṛtāni |
gaurābdhir etair amunā vitīrṇais
taj-jñatva-ratnālayatāṁ prayāti ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.8.1)

“The ocean Gaura filled the bhakta cloud named Rāma with the waters [lit., nectars] of the siddhānta regarding his own bhakti [alt., bhakti to himself] and then with these [waters] poured forth by him became an abode of the jewel of knowledge of them.”

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caitanya-līlā-amṛta-pūra

caitanya-līlā-amṛta-pūra, kṛṣṇa-līlā-sukarpūra,
do̐he meli haya sumādhurya |
sādhu-guru-prasāde, tāhā yei āsvāde,
se-i jāne mādhurya-prācurya ||
(Caitanya-caritāmṛta: 2.25.270)

“Caitanya-līlā is [like] an abundance of condensed milk [lit., nectar], and Kṛṣṇa-līlā is [like] fine camphor. By combining, the two become extremely sweet. One who tastes this [combination] by the grace of the sādhus and guru knows its abundance of sweetness.”

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