Sannyasa Acceptance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Today is 500th anniversary of the Acceptance of Sannyasa (Renounced Order) by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
He took initiation at the age of 24 from Sriman Keshava Bharati at Katwa, Bengal.
Gauranga or Vishvambha Mishra who is non-different from Krishna himself accepted this order so as to deliver the fallen conditioned souls of the present degraded age of Kaliyuga. It was then that he got the name 'Sri Krishna Chaitanya'. He travelled for 6 years all around India spreading the glories of the chanting of Holy name of Lord Hari and distributing love of Godhead to everyone. It was an act of extreme compassion towards the conditioned souls. Perhaps the reason, why Mahaprabhu is known as 'mahavadanyaya'
After this Mahaprabhu spent most of the 18 remaining years of his manifest pastimes in Jagannatha Puri.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada, The Founder Acharya of ISKCON comes in direct disciplic succession of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Srila Prabhupada fulfilled the prophecy of Mahaprabhu by spreading the chanting of Holy Name all over the world.
In view of this, a great festival is being celebrated in Mayapur and many other places by ISKCON.
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