Jiva Goswami: Contributions And Practice Of Caitanya Vaishnavism

Through Jiva Goswami, who happened to be one of the genius scholars in the times of wrangles between the schools of thoughts, Caitanya Vaishnavism, founded by Sri Caitanya in the early sixteenth century, is still present up to this day due to his prominent works. Jiva Goswami stands as the pillar of Caitanya Vaishnavism, his contributions to the movements are still celebrated in the present days. In his time, devotion and philosophy were two separate dealings until he combined and balanced them together. Today the Caitanya movement remains known and respected as the first tradition to produce such an outstanding work. His prominent books, the sandarbhas, is where he deals with the teachings of Sri Caitanya, in different topics that other scholars such as Sankara and Ramanuja has debated on, the topics touches the relationship between the knowledge God, the world etc.
Before Jiva Goswami could write the Bhagavata-sandarbhas, the essence of scripture, in which a complete and well-structured theology and practice of Caitanya Vaishnava are provided, the community of vaishnavas was facing a problem of speculations in these two things. This is due to the passing of Sri Caitanya, as he only left a little written work. It is estimated the Bhagavata-sandarbha was produced in 1555 and 1561, twelve years after the
On the other hand, Sri Caitanya’s philosophy is regarded by Jiva Goswami as the prominentest, in this way, he established the Bhagavata Purana as the highest source of knowledge for the reason that it teaches about Caitanya’s philosophy. Caitanya’s philosophy makes the Bhagavata Purana the source of knowledge since it teaches about Bhagavan, that God is a person and supremely worshipable. God possesses unlimited energies, one example of his energies is maya sakti, the material energy which constitutes and creates this phenomenal