Cmp 01. Appearance Of The Lord Poem by Rajaram Ramachandran

CHAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

(Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born as the second son of Jagannath Misra and
his wife Sachi Devi in the town of Naida, Mayapur, India on the evening
of the 18th February 1486 at the time of lunar eclipse. His parents
named him Vishvambhar. He was an avatar of Lord Krishna and his Hare
Krishna movement spread all over the world.)

God's Avatars, just not one
But were more, as many as ten,
About this, what scriptures say
It's well known even this day.

To destroy the growing evils
To save the suffering virtues
And to keep the world at peace
The Lord took these Avatars.

"Whenever the virtue subsides,
On this earth, the vice prevails,
I come to help the mankind, "
In Bhagavad Gita, Krishna said

Messengers many, God had sent.
To preach His words, they all went,
Thus came many spiritual leaders
To guide their sincere followers.

Jagannath Misra, his father,
And Sachi Devi, his mother
Gave birth to this holy son
On the night of a full moon.

On the February eighteenth,
In the year 1486, mother earth
Welcomed the great child
To this spiritual world.

His astrological birth chart
Many signs, part by part,
Revealed his divinenature,
In his upcoming bright future.

"He'll excel as a scholar
More like a reservoir
Of all divine qualities, "
They said these words.

They named him Vishvambhara
As a bright Navapada-chandra,
Meaning the Moon of Navadvipa,
Later on, he became Shri Chaitanya.

He was born under a tree "Neem, "
So as Nimai he had another name.

He cried frequently as a child,
At the sound of "Hari, " he smiled.

The chanting of Krishna's name,
From his preaching only, it came.
Thus, he still lives in the hearts
Of all the Hare Krishna Devotees.