Page 15 - Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu (English)
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Chapter One

                  Birth and Childhood

                           Pastimes



             Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu appeared in this
          world at a time of transformation in both the
          West and East. In Europe the Renaissance
          was flourishing, inspiring navigators to find
          new territories, astronomers to explore the
          heavens, and scholars to discover facts about the
          universe that overturned traditional paradigms
          and concepts. Simultaneously, in India a
          different kind of renaissance was taking place.
          Against a background of unprecedented social
          change, including widespread conversion of lower-
          class Hindus to Islam, the  bhakti movement was
          revolutionizing religious outlooks and practices.
             At that time many brähmaëas came to domicile
          in Navadvépa, Bengal, being attracted by its
          location on the sacred Gaìgä and its renown
          as  a  center  of  scholarship.  One  such  brähmaëa,
          Jagannätha Miçra, migrated from East Bengal and
          settled on the bank of the Gaìgä in Mäyäpur, a
          neighborhood  of Navadvépa.  Jagannätha Miçra



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