1. Caitanya-caritamrta & Gaura’s contribution

    Our Caitanya-caritamrta is unique literature. For Caitanya-caritamrta, we are above any acarya. There are four acaryas: Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, Visnu Svami… But our Gaudiya Vaisnava, Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s legacy, acarya, that is unique. Anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirna kalau. Here the Supreme Personality of Godhead is personally teaching — acarya. Anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirna kalau samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam.

    The highest topmost bliss, madhurya. These dealings of Radha-Krsna, madhurya-rasa, is the contribution of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. All other acaryas, they could not give up to this. All other acaryas, they contributed up to friendship — no vatsalya, neither madhurya. That is this contribution of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. There was dealings of mother Yasoda with Krsna in the Bhagavata. The Vallabhacaryas, they have got Bala Krsna. But the dealings of gopis with Krsna, that was not granted. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s contribution. Anarpita-carim means was never contributed.

    anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirna kalau
    samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-sriyam
    harih puvata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitah
    sada hrdaya-kandare sphurati…

    [Cc. Adi 1.4]

    [May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Srimati Saci-devi be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the radiance of molten gold, He has appeared in the Age of Kali by His causeless mercy to bestow what no incarnation has ever offered before: the most sublime and radiant mellow of devotional service, the mellow of conjugal love.]

    That is the Caitanya-caritamrta.

    Srila Prabhupada, Room Conversation — January 9, 1977, Bombay