gaurāṅga nahita kemana ha-ita
kemane dharita de |
rādhāra mahimā prema-rasa-sīmā
jagate jānāita ke ? ||
(Vasudeva Ghoṣa)
“If Gaurāṅga had not come, then how would it be? How would I bear this body? Who would have make known to the world Rādhā’s glory and the extreme of prema-rasa?”
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.”
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)].”
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.”
