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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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doctrines. He threw open doors of salvation to all the lowly persons and thus brought peace and blessedness to the ordinary and downtrodden strata of the society. He resisted the autocracy of the higher classes in the sphere of spiritual development even by writing the great philosophical truths of the past in the Gujarati language which could be easily followed by ordinary persons. His appeal to the social mind was deep and profound. He relieved spirituality of its orthodox rigidity and complexity and made the faith in God a more living principle of the social life.
Caitanya Prabhu Caitanya, otherwise also known as Lord Gauranga or Nimai was a very powerful and inspired Vaişņava saint who flourished in Bengal between 1485 and 1533. He was a highly gifted person from his early childhood and was taken to be an actual incarnation of the Lord Krspa Himself. He had a fine, well-cut, fair, and shining figure. He possessed marvellous beauty and it is known from his biography that a light of a peculiar combination of the rays of the sun and the moon used to emit from his body. He had the heart-searching eyes and he possessed a mysterious power of evoking excitement of love in others simply by his loving looks. He possessed an unusual power of generating inspiration and spiritual zeal in other people by his maddening dances and fervent kirtanas. He was called Kțişņa Caitanya for, he possessed the unique power of inspiring love and devotion for Kışņa in
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |