Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.16
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c6.s2.16
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Āveśa. But Jayānanda makes him a devotee, and Kavikarṇapūra, Locana and Vṛndāvana present him as the Bhagavat himself, from his very childhood. Kṛṣṇadāsa's attitude is almost the same. In the view of his later followers, therefore, Caitanya manifested himself as the supreme god from his very childhood. But Murāri's general attitude appears to suggest that Caitanya's divinity was a matter of gradual acceptance and was not widely and firmly established before his return from Gayā. See a discussion of the question by B. Majumdar, op. cit., pp. 590-603.