Vaishnavism And Chaitanyadeva - Impact on the Changing Society

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While aiming to focus on the genesis, expansion, evolution, problems and present situation of Vaishnavism in Nadia, the present book illuminates Vaishnavism and Chaitanyadeva (Impact on Changing Society). After independence, there has been very few historical studies done in the spheres of Vaishnavite understanding of society and textual interpretation. As it accommodates worldwide modernity and technological advancement, Gaudiya Vaishnavism has drifted from Chaitanyadevas principles due to several arguments about Mayapur. In some circumstances Chaitanyadevas individuality has been overlooked, and Gaudiya Vaishnavism has become an international religion. To remedy this an attempt has been made in this book to investigate Vaishnavisms contribution to the regeneration of the economy, society and spirituality in its birthplace, particularly Nabadwip and its adjacent territories.

AKHIL SARKAR (b. 1984) is an academic by profession and an avid student of History by passion. Presently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in History at Nabadwip Vidyasagar College, Nabadwip, Nadia, West Bengal. He obtained the M. Phil degree from University of North. Bengal in 2011. He also obtained his Ph. D. degree from University of Kalyani in 2020.

Vishnu is mentioned in Rigveda's Suktas. He was the most powerful divinity there, but he was not the most important. Cipabistus is another name for Vishnu in Rigveda. Vishnu possesses ninety horses, each having four names, from which are mentioned or derived 360 days and four seasons. It is surmised that the dust from their feet covered the entire creation. So, Vishnu is the supreme protector. No one can hurt him. He has travelled all over the world in three terms. As a result, it can be assumed that Vishnu is full of power or solar energy.' He is a suitable companion of Debraj Indra as well, as he was associated with Indra and the terminology used for Indra- Vishnu. The eye that does not see as it is judged in the sky.2 This world originated from Vishnu and is located in it. Vishnu is the master of the status and control of this world and he is the universe. That is, the Vaishnava religion originated by adopting the names of Vishnu, Narayana, Basudev Bhagavat, Krishna, etc. At present, the Supreme Court has verdict that Hinduism is not a religion, but a way of life.' John Dowson writes about the nature of Vishnu "Vishnu, Root, Vish, 'to pervade'. The second god of the Hindu triad. In Rigveda, Vishnu is not in the first rank of gods. He is a manifestation of solar energy and is described as striding through the seventh region of the universe in three steps and enveloping all things in the dust (of his beams). These three steps are explained by commentators as denoting the three manifestations of light-fire, lightning, and the Sun, or the three places of the Sun-its rising, culminations and setting. In the Veda, he is occasionally associated with Indra. He has very little in common with the Vishnu of later times, but he is called "the uncountable preserver" According to Dr. Abinash Chandra Das. Vishnu occupied a superposition in later Vedic literature, holding a subordinate position in the Rigveda's pantheon of gods. He took three steps, one on earth, one in mid-heaven, and the third in the highest heaven, which was invisible to men, but visible to gods like an eye fixed in heaven.

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