Chaitanya and His Age (Ramtanu Lahiri Fellowship Lectures for the year 1919 and 1921)

Vaisnavism of Bengal is besides the youngest of the world's reputed creeds so it is perhaps p..emature to pass a judgment now On Chaitanya's Regarding the view that the theology of Chaitanya lacks originality the codes of all religions of the world may he traced to earlier sources ; nid a complicated code of Ethics is not in my humble opinion always the true criterion of the greatness of a f [...] H3 brought; to the doors of o:dinary men the highest spiritual bliss of divine love which like the stream of the holy Gangas lay entangled in the meshes of Indian religious philosophy more knotty than the matted locks of Siva. [...] I long cherished the ambition to give a translatioT it by the side of that of the Prakodh Chant rdaya to emphasise the contrast between the refined ingenuity of the one and the passionate ardour of the other. [...] The genius of the Greeks awl of the Hebrews conceived humanity as a whole ; the former conceived man in the domain of philosophy and the latter in that of religion. [...] Some years ago I referred in a note supplied to the editor of Krishnakirtan to a tradition extant in the neigbourhood of Nanoor the native village of Chandi Das that the Begum of a Nawab had fallen in love with the poet and that the result of this ill-fated passion was the punishment of a cruel death inflicted on him.