Sri Chaitanya - The Love of God | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Talks - Swami Sarvapriyananda
Vedanta Society of New York
4.8 • 714 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Divine Personalities | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Swami Sarvapriyananda’s offers an inspiring overview of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s life, from his early brilliance in Navadvipa to his transformation into a world-teacher of ecstatic devotion. The talk highlights Chaitanya’s message of divine love, the chanting of God’s name, and his enduring influence on bhakti spirituality.
• 0:00 Opening prayer and introduction
• 2:00 Birth, early life, and scholarship in Navadvipa
• 11:00 Spiritual transformation at Gaya
• 13:00 Kirtan, devotion, and the power of God’s name
• 27:30 Jagai and Madhai; Chaitanya’s compassion
• 32:00 Renunciation and journey to Puri
• 40:00 Sacred stories and devotional travels
• 45:00 Ecstatic love of Jagannath Puri
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Ome, O'm Asatomashtoamah, |
| 0:03.0 | Tamsoamah, Jothirgamaya |
| 0:22.6 | Mritiurma amritam Gamaia |
| 0:27.6 | Ome shanty, shanty, shanty, hey |
| 0:34.6 | Ome, lead us from the unreal to the real, |
| 0:39.3 | lead us from darkness unto light, |
| 0:42.3 | lead us from death to immortality, |
| 0:45.3 | Ome, peace, peace, peace. |
| 0:52.3 | Namaste and good morning welcome everybody. |
| 0:56.0 | Today is a day of delight because today we are going to talk about the life of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. |
| 1:04.0 | It's a story which connects a distant part of Bengal in India 700 years ago to New York today. |
| 1:13.6 | Because you know the Society for Krishna Consciousness, Iscon, was founded right here in New York in the 1960s. |
| 1:23.6 | So it's a story which is actually relevant to today and New York also and to Bengal and to India. |
| 1:31.3 | To our Ramakrishna Vivekandha tradition because of the influence of the Vaishnava tradition on the Ramakrishna Vivekandha movement |
| 1:39.3 | for the tremendous respect, venerance and love in which Sri Ramakrishna held Chaitanya Baha Prabhu. |
| 1:49.0 | So just glimpses of his life. |
| 1:53.0 | It's the love of God and the love of the name of God, |
| 1:58.0 | chant unceasingly the name of God. |
| 2:09.6 | The story begins about 600 years ago in Bengal, in the place called Navadwepa, there's a village, Mayapur. |
| 2:10.6 | And Sri Chaitanya was born to a pious Brahmin couple, Sri Jagannath Mishra and Shachi Devi. And he was named |
| 2:23.3 | Vishambhar. That is the name which was originally given to him. Actually they had another |
| 2:29.1 | son before that, Vishwraub. So, and Vishwaraup had left home as a young boy and become a monk. So that's a story |
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