Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c11.s2.47

c11.s2.47

² Elsewhere (vii, *ad* 2, p. 125) we learn from Sārvabhauma that Rāmānanda was a Sahaja Vaiṣṇava. If a reference is meant to the Sahaja or Sahajiyā cult, it is unfortunate that we possess little information regarding its prevalence before or during Caitanya's time. But it is probable that other, but similar, erotico-religious tendencies must have existed before the Śrīmad-bhāgavata emotionalism was firmly established by Caitanya; and poets like Jayadeva and Vidyāpati, with