The appearance day (birthday) of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is
coming up this Thursday – March 5. Caitanya (1486-1534) inaugurated the
Sankirtana Movement just over 500 years ago. Sankirtana is the public chanting of sacred mantras. At that time, the district of Navadvip in West Bengal was
ruled by the Muslim governor – Chand Kazi – who had received complaints from
both Muslims and Hindus alike about this sankirtana activity. The Kazi outlawed
the chanting and imposed sever penalties on anyone who did not abide by the
restriction. As a protest, and hundreds
of years before Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr, Caitanya organized the first massive, civil
disobedience in recorded history.
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