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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokpa
all those who happened to come in his contact. He possessed the power of throwing a peculiar spell on the minds of his associates and thus, thereby producing in them God-intoxication. He himself lived for the whole of his life-time a God-intoxicated person, and he used to fall very frequently into trances as a result of his mystical experiences of communion with the Lord Kțşqa. Falling into trances, or in the states of swoons and unconsciousness was a peculiar feature of the personality of Caitanya. He also possessed the unusual power of communicating his spiritual joy and love to others by actually instilling in them new thrilling experience of joy. He would convert his opponents not by philosophical discourses and arguments but by his mere presence and loving gazes full of profound love and joy of the Divine. He possessed the miraculous power of winning over his opponents by means of his power to create quite a different atmosphere of love, faith, and a living presence of the Divine all around him. Caitanya spoke less, preached less, taught less; but he used to sweep his audience and associates by a storm of spiritual joy and faith by means of transforming their minds. He was a spiritual dynamo and he used to produce large quantities of spiritual enthusiasm and zeal in the people by his trances, powerful dances, and inspiring sounds of hunkars and the Haribole (हरिबोल).
Caitanya as such has left nothing in writing behind him. All that we can know of him has to be known from his account given in the literary works
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