Bhakti-yoga

It was in the year 1486 A.D. that Shree Chaitanya Deva appeared before us at Mayapur in Antardwip [the island at the core or centre of the nine (nava) islands (dwipa) of which Navadwip consists] on the eastern bank of the holy Ganges and lived there for the first twenty-four years of His stay here playing the part of house-holder. He accepted as his father, Jagannatha Misra, a respectable Brahmin Pandita of Sylhet, then settled at Navadwip, and Sachi Devi, an ideal Brahmin lady of the time as His mother. He had a human form so perfectly built, so lustrously complexioned, so highly statured and so lovely as purely inconceivable in a human body, and possessed such a pleasing and overpowering intelligence before whose effulgence the brightest and sharpest human intelligences burned like glowworms. With all these superhuman gifts and possessions, He led the life of an ideal Vaishnava and with a view to establish an exemplar life of a pure and sincere devotee.