Bhaktivedanta purports of Srila Prabhupada
Caitanya Caritamrta https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/introduction/ Introduction ( Originally delivered as five morning lectures on the Caitanya-caritāmṛta — the authoritative biography of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī — before the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, New York City, April 10-14, 1967. ) The word caitanya means “living force,” carita means “character,” and amṛta means “immortal.” As living entities we can move, but a table cannot because it does not possess living force. Movement and activity may be considered signs or symptoms of the living force. Indeed, it may be said that there can be no activity without the living force. Although the living force is present in the material condition, this condition is not amṛta, immortal. The words caitanya-caritāmṛta, then, may be translated as “the character of the living force in immortality.” But how is this liv...