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Adi-lila foreword

 

His (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) perpetual and ever-increasing religious

beatitude, graphically described in the eye-witness accounts of Svarupa

Damodara Gosvami, His constant companion during this period, clearly defy

the investigative and descriptive abilities of modern psychologists and

phenomenologists of religious experience.

 

The author of this great classic, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, born around

the beginning of the sixteenth century, was a disciple of Raghunatha dasa

Gosvami, a confidential follower of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's. Raghunatha dasa,

a renowned ascetic saint, heard and memorized all the activities of Caitanya

Mahaprabhu told to him by Svarupa Damodara Gosvami. After the passing away

of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Svarupa Damodara, Raghunatha dasa, unable to

bear the pain of separation from these objects of his complete devotion,

traveled to Vrndavana, intending to commit suicide by jumping from

Govardhana Hill. In Vrndavana, however, he encountered Srila Rupa Gosvami

and Srila Sanatana Gosvami, two of the most confidential disciples of

Caitanya Mahaprabhu. They convinced him to to give up his planned suicide

and impelled him to reveal to them the spiritually inspiring events of Lord

Caitanya's later life. Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami was also residing in

Vrndavana at this time, and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami endowed him with a full

comprehension of the transcendental life of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.