On Krishna, Hindu deity.

Sri Chaitanya-charitamrta is the main work on the life and teachings of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the incarnation of Krishna who appeared in India five hundred years ago. Lord Chaitanya introduced the chanting of the holy names of God as the prescribed method of God-realization for our time. He began what is today called the Hare Krishna movement, since the movement's founder, Srila Prabhupada, comes in the Chaitanya line of spiritual masters. Lord Chaitanya transformed the face of India in four respects: philosophically, by encountering, defeating and converting the greatest philosophers and thinkers of His day; religiously, by organizing the largest, most widespread theistic movement in India's history; socially, by His strong challenges to the religious inequities of the caste system; politically, by His organization of a massive civil disobedience movement in Bengal, more than four centuries before Gandhi. This English translation with commentary, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, reveals his consummate Bengali and Sanskrit scholarship, his intimate familiarity with the precepts of Sri Chaitanya, and his pure devotion to God.

This is an intriguing biographical account of the 16th century avatar and propagator of the Bhakti Yoga devotional tradition and his principal associates. Chaitanya's doctrine of divine love created a renaissance of spiritual conception that continues to vibrate its timeless teachings to the present day. This biography brings the reader through the lives and deeds of his closest confidants — each of whom are considered saints in their own right. It includes a fold-out biographical map detailing the personalities appearing in Gaura Lila and Krishna Lila, for the first time available for an English audience. Foreword by Swami B.P. Puri.

The profound and pious poem “Sri Suka Sari Stava” extols the virtues of Lord Krishna as related by Sage Sukadeva Goswami in the ancient text “Srimad Bhagavatam.” This hymn serves as a poetic and inspirational statement of adoration and devotion to Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

This is a classic devotional text composed by a great Vaisnava saint in the 17th century. It expounds on the life and teachings of the medieval Saint and Avatar, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who started a spiritual revolution in medieval India, a time characterized by materialism. Originally written in Bengali, this masterpiece has been translated by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, who has added extraordinary commentary to the nectarean verses.