Gadadhara Pandita – the Embodiment of Pure Love for Lord Caitanya.
“I offer my respectful obeisances unto the internal potencies of the Lord, of whom Sri Gadadhara Prabhu is the foremost.” (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila 1.41)
Sri Gadadhara Pandita is one of the five Panca-tattva, who along with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Sri Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Advaita Acarya, and Srivasa Thakura descended to this world to teach pure devotional service and spread the chanting of the holy name of Lord Krishna. He is sakti-tattva, an incarnation of the internal or pleasure potency of Lord Krishna, and is the personification of love of Godhead.
In Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, it is written: “Gadadhara Pandita, the fourth branch, is described as an incarnation of the pleasure potency of Sri Krsna. No one, therefore, can equal him. In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (147–53) it is stated, ‘The pleasure potency of Sri Krsna formerly known as Vrndavanesvari is now personified in the form of Sri Gadadhara Pandita in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.’ Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has pointed out that in the shape of Laksmi, the pleasure potency of Krsna, she was formerly very dear to the Lord as Syamasundara-vallabha. The same Syamasundara-vallabha was present in Lord Caitanya’s pastimes as Gadadhara Pandita.” (Adi-lila 10.15, Translation and Purport)
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