Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a 16th century Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India who is worshipped by Gaudiya Vaishnavism followers as the full incarnation of Lord Krishna. He promoted Bhakti yoga based on Bhagavata Purana and Bhagavad Gita. He was born in 1486 in Nabadwip, India and died in 1534 in Puri, India. According to scriptures, he received initiation into sannyasa and traveled throughout India chanting Krishna's names before spending the last 24 years of his life in Puri. He advocated that pure devotion and love of Krishna are the ultimate spiritual goals.

2. • Dedicated to His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

3. • Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was a Vaishnava saint
and social reformer in eastern India in the 16th
century, worshipped by followers of Gaudiya
Vaishnavism as the full incarnation of
Lord Krishna. Sri Krishna Chaitanya was a
notable proponent for the Vaishnava school
of Bhakti yoga based on the philosophy of
the Bhagavata Purana and Bhagavad Gita.

4. • Born:1486 Nabadwip
, Nadia, West Bengal, India
• Died:1534
Puri, Orissa, India
• Birth name: Vishambar
• Titles/honors :Followers
of GaudiyaVaishnavism beli
eve him to be the full
incarnation of Lord
Krishna.
• Philosophy :Bhakti yoga

5. • According to Chaitanya
Charitamrita, Nimäi was born
on the full moon night of
February 18, 1486, at the
time of a lunar eclipse. His
parents named him
'Vishvambhar'. Sri Chaitanya
was the second son of
Jagannath Mishra and his wife
Sachi Devi who lived in the
town
of Nabadwip in Nadia, West
Bengal.

7. • After leaving Bengal and
receiving entrance into
the sannyasa order
by Keshava
Bharati,Chaitanya
journeyed throughout the
length and breadth
of India for several
years, chanting the divine
Names of Krishna
constantly. He spent the
last 24 years of his life
in Puri,Orissa, the great
temple city of Jagannäth.

8. • It was after this that some of the jealous and low minded
Brahmins of Kulia picked up a quarrel with Mahaprabhu
and collected a party to oppose Him. Nimai Pandit was
naturally a soft hearted Person though strong in His
principles. He declared that party feeling and sectarianism
were the two great enemies of progress, and as long as He
should continue to be an inhabitant of Nadia belonging to a
certain family, His mission would not meet with complete
success. He then resolved to be a citizen of the world by
cutting off His connection with a particular family, caste and
creed and with this resolution

9. • The statements of amnaya (scripture) are the chief proof. By
these statements the following nine topics are taught.
• Krishna is the Supreme Absolute Truth.
• Krishna is endowed with all energies.
• Krishna is the ocean of rasa (theology).
• The jivas (individual souls) are all separated parts of the Lord.
• In bound state the jivas are under the influence of matter, due to
their tatastha nature.
• In the liberated state the jivas are free from the influence of
matter, due to their tatastha nature.
• The jivas and the material world are both different from and
identical to the Lord.
• Pure devotion is the practice of the jivas.
• Pure love of Krishna is the ultimate goal.
• Krishna is the only lovable blessing to be received.

10. • Krishna consciousness, or bhakti-yoga, means how
to act in harmony with ultimate reality—the
Supreme Person. Bhakti—“devotional service”—is
how the bhakta—“devotee”—and Bhagavan—
“God, the possessor of all opulences”—relate.
We're all naturally Krishna conscious. In
illusion, we think we’re the center of the
universe, and our bodies are our real selves.
Krishna consciousness means becoming free from
that illusion, and experiencing our true
blissful, eternal nature. It's a process that works.