TY  - GEN
A1  - Swami, Bhakti Caru
T1  - The Pada-Yatra of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
T2  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur
N2  - The word pada-yatra literally means to walk on foot. In early India people used to travel by chariot, horseback, elephant, bullock-cart, or palanquin. But saintly persons, having renounced such worldly comforts, would travel by foot. Their main concern was to teach the glories of God to the conditioned living entities and thereby deliver them from their miserable materialistic lives. Walking was the best means of contacting the common people and accomplishing that goal. When Lord Chaitanya took sannyas - the renounced order of life - He travelled throughout India on foot. First He went from Bengal to Jagannatha Puri in Orissa and then He toured South India on foot of course. At that South India was seriously influenced by impersonalism, and the people in general had deviated from the path of devotion to the Lord. Love of God is the source of real happiness, and when one abandons that loving relationship with God, he suffers. Lord Chaitanya wanted to deliver the conditioned souls plunged in the absolute misery of that impersonalism. In order to reinstate them as devotees of the Lord, Sri Chaitanya went personally to South India. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is none other than the Supreme Personality of God-head who appeared as a devotee to teach the science of devotion - the only means of deliverance from material bondage. When the Lord performs any ac-tion, its effects are wonderful; similarly, when He directs His devotees to do anything, their result will also be wonderful. Lord Chaitanya's deliverance of South India stands as a proof that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the guise of a devotee. ...
T3  - Journal of religious culture = Journal für Religionskultur - 21 
Y1  - 1998
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/428
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-49261
UR  - http://web.uni-frankfurt.de/irenik/religionskultur.htm
SN  - 1434-5935
N1  - Rev. ed. of Bhakti Caru Swami: The Pada-Yatra of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. - in: Studia irenica ; 33 (ed. by Edmund Weber ...) - Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 1988
IS  - 21
PB  - Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -