More Unpublished biographies of Mahaprabhu

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The following books about Lord Caitanya and his pure eternal associates should

be published with the original Bengali verses (sweetness personified) and

distributed widely around the world in different languages. Any one of these

books is capable of converting a maha-pasandi into a maha-vaisnava. Rocks melt

in ecstasy upon hearing the wonderful glorifications in these books, what to

speak of stone-like hearts. If there was someone to back me with financial

support for printing these books, I would leave everything and work like mad to

publish in the major Indian languages these books especially the Bengali ones

which are more accessible to the common man. How will the Golden Age come when

people of this world don't even know Who is Caitanya Mahaprabhu? And the most

rare ones among the common people who know, they at best think that he was a

saint or a prophet or someone among us. That is why the whole world has become

terrible unfortunate and fast on a suicidal course. And who is to blame for

that? It is we the devotees of Lord Caitanya, who are not effectively spreading

Gaura katha all over the world. Yes we have to take the blame.

 

(1)Sri Caitanya-bhagavata by Srila Vrindavan das Thakura

(2)Sri Caitanya-caritamrta by Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja

(3)Sri Caitanya-mangala by Srila Locana das Thakura

(4)Sri Krsna Caitanya-caritamrta-maha-kavyam

by Caitanya Dasa (elder brother of Kavi Karøapura)

(5)Sri Caitanya-candramrta by Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati

(6)Sri Caitanya-candrodaya natakam by Kavi Karnapura

(7)Bhakti Ratnakara by Narahari Cakravarti

(8)Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's incarnation is authorized, compiled by Kusa Prabhu

(9)Glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, many prayers compiled by Kusa Prabhu

(10)Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika, by Kavi Karnapura

(11)Gaura-caritra-samudra by Narahari Cakravarti

(12)Sri Gaura-krsnodaya by Srimad Govinda-deva Kavi.

(13)Sri Gauranga-lilamrta by Visvanatha Cakravarti

(daily eight-fold pastimes of Lord Gauranga)+ Rupa Goswami's Gauranga

smarana mangala astakam and Visvanatha's Svapna Vilasamrta

(14)Commentary on Gauranga-lilamrta in Bengali

(don't know the author but each verse is explained in Bengali)

(15)Sri Gauranga-lila-smarana-mangala-stotram by Bhaktivinoda Thakura

(16)Navadvipa-bhava-taranga by Thakura Bhaktivinoda + Bhaja godruma kanana

(17)Navadvipa-dhama-mahatmya Pramana Khanda & Parikrama Khanda by Bhaktivinoda

(18)Navadvipa-sataka by Prabodhanada Sarasvati

(19)Narottama Vilasa by Narahari Cakravarti

(20)Rasika Mangala by Gopijana-vallabha das

(21)Srinivas-carita by Narahari Cakravarti

(22)Shyamananda Prakash by Krsnacaran das

(23)Shyamananda-satakam by Rasikananda

(24)Karnananda by By Yadunandana das

(25)Prema-vivarta by Jagadananda Pandit

(26)Namamrta Samudra by Narahari Cakravarti

(27)Sri Gaura-premollasa-stotram by Nandkisora Gosvami

(28)Prema-vilasa by Nityananda dasa

(29-33)Gitavali, Saranagati, Kalyana-kalpataru, Gitamala, Baul-sangit by

Bhaktivinoda

(34)Hari-nama-cintamani by Thakura Bhaktivinoda

(35)Krsna-prema-tarangini (full Bhagavatam in Bengali) by Bhagavatacarya

(36)Gitamrta by Purnacandra das

 

>From the introduction of Sri Caitanya-carita Mahakavya by Srila Murari Gupta,

translated by Bhaktivedanta Bhagavata Swami:

 

In order to create another flood of gaura-katha to inundate the dull minds of

Kali-yuga's materialists and water the seeds of bhakti lying dormant in their

hearts, all of Lord Caitanya's biographies must be translated and profusely

distributed in all mediums. Although some of these various texts describe the

same Personality of Gaurahari, and may appear to narrate the same incidents of

the Lord's life, still due to the undiminishing and ever-increasing blissful

nature of transcendental subject matters, nava-navayamana, there is no point of

satiation for the attentive reader of gaura-katha. Even if one hears repeatedly

the same histories of the golden avatara, one's enthusiasm will not wane.

Rather, an ardent longing to exclusively hear, chant and remember gaura-katha

will develop, while simultaneously an aversion to the transitory topics of the

bahir-mukha (materialists) will arise, and thereby one will surely achieve the

perfectional stage of human life - love of Krsna. As the Gaudiya Vaisnavas

sing:

 

bhaja gaurahga, kaha gaurahga, laha gaurahgera nama re

ye jana gaurahga bhaje, se haya amara praoa re

 

Worship Gauranga! Speak about Gauranga! Take Gauranga's names! Whoever worships

Gauranga, he is the breath of my life.

 

Your servant,

Nayana-ranjana das

 

PS Devotees can add to this list.