Parasuram das: Seeing all around Him the growing tendency for people to abandon their spiritual practices for the pursuit of wealth and short-lived materialistic gains, Advaita Acharya felt greatly pained. He wondered how the masses would ever be liberated.
It is said Advaita Acharya prayed fervently to the Lord for several months-He worshipped His shalagram shilas lovingly with sacred Tulasi leaves and Ganges water calling out aloud to the Lord to manifest and show a way to the worldly people to reach the eternal spiritual abode.
By the momentum of his spiritual fervor, his loud cries pierced the coverings of the material universe and echoing through the transcendental Vaikuntha lokas, reached the ears of Sri Krishna in Goloka. Hearing this urgent cry saturated with devotion, Sri Krishna advented Himself as Sri Krishna Chaitanya in Mayapur, Bengal as the son of Sri Jagannath Mishra and Saci Devi.
jaya jaya advaita isvara avatara krsna avatari kaila jagat-nistara
“All glories to Advaita Prabhu, the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He induced Krsna to descend and thus delivered the entire world.”
Is it a coincidence?
That by the time Advaita Acharya was 20 years old, on the other side of the planet the Gutenberg Press was invented and the first book was being printed.
180 copies of the Gutenberg Bible printed and today after 565 years there are still 49 copies existing, even 2 original books can be seen in the British Library very near to the Radha Krishna Temple on Soho Street and Krishna’s Castle in the City of London.
In Renaissance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance Europe, the arrival of mechanical movable type printing introduced the era of mass communication https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_communication, unrestricted circulation of information and (revolutionary) ideas transcended borders, captured the masses in the Reformation https://en.m.wikipedia. org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation and threatened the power of political and religious authorities.
The Brhad- Mrdanga had arrived:
So on this day, particularly on the advent of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, I’d especially request my disciples who are cooperating with me that try to publish books as many as possible and distribute throughout the whole world. That will satisfy Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as well as Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. Thank you very much. (His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada’s Appearance Day, Lecture – Mayapur, February 21, 1976) We start stretching the historic data when we see that Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaj Prabhupada was born the same time as the first serious bicycle with a chain was invented. A picture is worth a thousand words, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Maharaj was very keen on making dioramas, his temples were wall to wall with dioramas and paintings
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