Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Lord Chaitanya, or Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as he is lovingly and lingeringly called by his devotees, was a Hindu personage much akin to Jesus Christ of Christianity. Both were prophets who understood the limitations of their times and both were steeped in the scriptures of their respective religions yet neither ever wrote anything down formally. Instead, they used simple, uncomplicated words to preach their innate wisdom to the masses who adored them for their uncomplicated sermons. There is ample evidence that both performed innumerable miracles. Both preached absolute love for all beings. Both were also persecuted by the priestly classes of their respective times because both believed in personal devotion and good deeds as means to salvation in contrast to the prevailing customs of those times that advocated extensive, complicated and costly rituals that could only be performed by a priest. In the end, both died as a result of that persecution and both remain ingrained in the collective memory of the world as great teachers who continue to guide not only by the sermons that they left behind but also by the personal examples of their lives which are numerously preserved in chronicles and other holy scriptures of Hinduism and Christianity. Lord Jesus professed that he was the Son of God while Lord Chaitanya professed that he was a devotee of Lord Krishna, whom he adoringly called Hari and who was the 8th avatar of Vishnu.