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Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Brahma Saṁhitā or Hymns of Brahmā is an important Holy Scripture in tradition of Gauḍīya Vaishnavism – which was found by the great Master Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486 - 1534) Himself – during His travel to South India. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya regarded this poem as a great treasure of Krishna Philosophy. Later on Brahma Saṁhitā was studied by almost all

Chaitanya is a popular shortened form of Kṛṣṇa-Chaitanya (whose consciousness is of Kṛṣṇa), the religious name taken at his ascetic initiation (Sannyāsa) by Viśvambhara Miśra (1486-1533), an ecstatic devotee and Vaiṣṇava revivalist. To his devotees, Chaitanya is the paradigm of an emotionally intense, loving devotion (prema-bhakti) to Kṛṣṇa - which humans may aspire to emulate while never reaching the perfection