Mahaprabhu’s Victory – Over the Mayavadis at Benares – Dandavats.com
By Karuna Dharini Devi Dasi
Desiring to drown everyone in the flood of love of God, Lord Caitanya made a special effort to capture misinformed impersonalists.
In 1486 CE, Lord Krishna appeared in West Bengal as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Though Krishna Himself, Lord Caitanya comes in the mood of a fully Krishna conscious devotee and teaches us pure bhakti, the personal, loving, service relationship of the soul with the Supreme Lord. To awaken that relationship, Lord Caitanya recommended the singing of the holy names of God, especially the maha-mantra: Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the many persons who joined Him sang and danced throughout West Bengal. The sweet mood of appreciation and revelry among a broad network of persons in the bhakti movement became so widely established during that time in India’s history that Mahaprabhu’s biographers compare what they experienced to a flood of love of God. True lovers of God were described as drowned in the love, while others floated.
Not surprisingly, other types of spiritualists stood aside to avoid the inundation. One particular group, the Mayavadis, remained quite dry, making them a special target of Lord Caitanya’s mercy.
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