Timeline of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu

Chornicle of events of Sri Chaitanya mahaprabhu’s life *

A. Adi Lilă: Pre-sannyāsa life

  1. February 18, 1486: Chaitanya was born in the evening in Navadvipa.
  2. March 9, 1486: At the christening ceremony the boy was named Viśvambhara and Nimai.
  3. 1497: Jagannatha Miśra, his father, disappeared.
  4. 1501-1502: His first marriage with Laksmi, daughter of Vallabha Acārya, occurred.
  5. 1505: He began his career as a teacher and set up a Sanskrit school.
  6. 1506 He undertook a journey to the East Bengal with a view to acquiring wealth by means of teaching. During his absence, his wife Laksmi disappeared because of a snake-bite.
  7. 1507: His second marriage with Vişnupriyā, daughter of Sanatana Miśra, took place.
  8. 1508: He undertook a pilgrimage to Gayā to perform the Śrāddha of his departed father. There he had an encounter with Iśvara Puri and was initiated by him. He heard a celestial voice giving hints of his incarnated divinity.
  9. December, 1508 He returned home from Gaya metamorphosed.
  10. January, 1509: He began to reveal his signs and symptoms of Avataārahood as well as emotional ecstasy during Kirtana.
  11. June-July, 1509: He revealed himself as the incarnation of Vişnu during the worship of Vyāsa in Śrīvāsa’s house.
  12. July-August, 1509: He was ceremoniously consecrated to the Vaisnavite leadership as the Avatara and was adored and hymned in Śrīvāsa’s house.
  13. November-December, 1509: He organized and spearheaded a massive procession against the Kazi of Navadvipa.
  14. January 25, 1510: He lens the Kazi of Nad of night with a view to embracing a new lastete dead of night

B. Madhya and Antya Lila: Post-sannyasa life

  1. January 26, 1510: He became a sannyasi following the performance of religious rites and ceremonious initiation in sannyāsahood by Keśava Bharati at Käțoyä. He was re- christened Srikrsnacaitanya.
  2. January 27-30, 1510: He made a tour in different parts of Rädha accompanied by Nityananda and then came to the village Phuliya to meet Haridāsa.
  3. February 1, 1510: He visited Advaita Acārya at his Šäntipura residence.
  4. February 4, 1510: He left Šäntipura and set out on a journey towards Nilācala.
  5. March, 1510: After visiting the temple of Lord Jagannatha, he converted Väsudeva Särvabhauma to Vaisnavism.
  6. April, 1510: He undertook a long pilgrimage in South India, which continued for about two years and during which he met and had a long discourse with Rämänanda Räya in 1511.
  7. September 28, 1514 He set out on a tour. Rüpa and Sanatana met him at Rämakeli. His mother went to see him at Säntipura.
  8. 1515 He set out on a pilgrimage towards Vendāvana probably in August-September.
  9. January, 1516 He came to Prayaga, where he imparted theological lessons to Rūpa Gosvämi. He then came to Väränasi, where he taught Sanatana Gosvämi.
  10. February, 1516 He started for Bengal and came to Navadvipa.
  11. May, 1516: He returned to Puri, where the lived for the remaining eighteen years of his life uninterrupted.
  12. 1521: His last phase of continuous divine ecstasy and withdrawal from the phenomenal world of sense perception began to take shape.
  13. March 9, 1533: Haridäsa disappeared and he took part in the disappearance ceremony.
  14. June 29, 1533: He disappeared

*Source – Theory of Avatara and Divinity of Chaitanya by Janmajit Roy , pg 238-239

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