Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c9.s5.22
Early History of the Vaiṣṇava Faith and Movement in Bengal, from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources c9.s5.22
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c9.s5.22
In this verse which is similar to, but more definite than, the Namaskriyā verse already cited above from Raghunāthadāsa's Muktā-caritra, Rūpa Gosvāmin states quite expressly his belief of Caitanya's identity with Kṛṣṇa; but it also appears that the son of Śacī was regarded by him as an Avatāra in the Kali Age (avatīrṇaḥ) for the special purpose of teaching, by his own example, the secrets of Ujjvala or Madhura Rasa, by which is of course meant the religiously sublimated erotic sentiment, which the Rasa-śāstra of this school established as the highest sentiment of Bhakti.