Advaita acarya appeared some sixty years before Lord Caitanya's own advent. He was the first among the associates of Lord Caitanya to appear within the material world to deliver the conditioned souls. It was Advaita acarya who asked Lord Caitanya to descend. Before Lord Caitanya's advent, Advaita acarya had already begun chanting Krishna's names in the streets with devotees and discussing scriptures on devotional service to Krishna. Advaita acarya's name indicates that He is avaita-i.e., nondifferent- from Lord Hari (Krishna), and He is called Acarya (one who teaches by example) because He taught bhakti in all directions, Advaitacarya lived in Santipura and Maypura, in what is now West Bengal, and was the head of the Vaisnava community of Nadia.
When Advaita Prabhu saw that the total human society was full of materialistic activities and devoid of devotional service, which alone could save mankind from the threefold miseries of material existence, He, out of His causeless compassion for the age-worn human society, prayed fervently for the incarnation of the Lord and continually worshiped the Lord with water of the Ganges and leaves of the holy tulasi tree.
Sri Advaita Acharya Ki Jay!
Kurukshetra team
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