Sri Caitanya-caritamrta will become the TOPMOST BOOK IN THE WORLD...

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Kavicandra Swami wrote:

 

> Letter from Germany

> something very nice happened today. I am taking a

> Bengali course at the South Asia institute right next

> to my university here in Heidelberg. Some time ago i

> heard that the teacher was looking for Caitanya

> Caritamrita, so today I brought her Srila Prabhupada´s

> caitanya Caritamrita in German. now she is thinking to

> order it for the university library and she wants to

> read parts of it with her students in class.

> It made me so happy that she is reading Srila

> Prabhupada´s books! She also likes the pictures very

> much.

 

Cc Adi 8.39 purport

 

Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami wrote Sri Caitanya-caritamrta in his old age, in an

invalid condition, but it is such a sublime literature that Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja used to say, "The time will come

when the people of the world will learn Bengali to read Sri

Caitanya-caritamrta." We are trying to present Sri Caitanya-caritamrta in

English and do not know how successful it will be, but if one reads the

original Caitanya-caritamrta in Bengali he will relish increasing ecstasy in

devotional service.

 

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 7.1, Mayapur, March 1, 1974

 

My Guru Maharaja, His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami

Prabhupada, whenever he got some time he used to read Caitanya-caritamrta. And

he predicted that the whole world like to read Caitanya-caritamrta, and for

this reason they'll learn Bengali. Therefore, following his footsteps, I have

kept the Bengali character and tried to give the literary meaning of each word

of the Bengali poem. This is, of course, Sanskrit. This book is full of

Sanskrit verses. Some of them are composed by the author himself, Kaviraja

Gosvami, and some of them are quoted from various literature, Vedic literature.

 

Cc Antya Concluding words

 

In the meantime, I was induced to translate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta and publish

it in an elaborate version. In his leisure time in later life, His Divine Grace

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura would simply read Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. It

was his favorite book. He used to say that there would be a time when

foreigners would learn the Bengali language to read the Caitanya-caritamrta.

 

Letter to: Kirtiraja, Vrindaban, 15 September, 1975

 

He has written that people will want to learn Bengali just to read Caitanya

Caritamrta. That was the prediction of my Guru Maharaja. This is very

enlivening.

 

Professor and the head of the Department of Bengali and the dean of the faculty

of Fine Arts and Music at the University of Calcutta.

 

I have particularly read some portions of this English translation of Sri

Caitanya-caritamrta, and I think this book is capable of saving mankind from

the clutches of maya. I have no doubt that the ISKCON will lead the world to

the path of divine grace."