Chaitanya's Life And Teachings

Chaitanya's Life and Teachings is taken from his contemporary Bengali biography, the Chaitanya-charit-amrita, translated into English. The dedication calls Chaitanya the greatest Vaishnav teacher of the north, and speaks of placing the original life within the reach of all readers of English who know not the Bengali tongue. The contents list names The Author and His Book and A Short Life of Chaitanya, among others.

A list of terms explains prasád as food dedicated to a god at his worship, and thereafter eaten by the faithful as something holy. The text describes the Master sitting down under passion's sway with bowed head to trace letters on the ground with His finger, and Swarup preventing Him lest His finger should be hurt. Ramchandra Puri says he had heard that Chaitanya's bhaktas were great gluttons and now sees it with his own eyes to be true. The text calls Ramchandra Puri notorious as the universal fault finder, having been cursed for it by his own religious preceptor, Madhavendra Puri.