ABSTRACT
In Sri Caitanya is to be found the culmination and fulfilment of the philosophy and the religion of love. Through him Vaisnavism, which is the philosophical expression of the ideal of love for God, ushered in a new era in the higher life of Bengal. His ideas have found exquisite expression in a richly emotional collection of hymns which have been a peculiar contribution of Bengal to Indian culture. Every Bengali has in his blood a liberal admixture of Sri Caitanya’s religion of love. Sri Caitanya was born in the year 1485 at Navadwip, at that time a large city in Bengal and the seat of Sanskrit learning, particularly of grammar and logic. Sri Caitanya gave little care or attention to a theoretical consideration of the problems of God, the human soul, and the universe.
