```json
{
    "title": "Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila Chapter 1 Text 2",
    "url": "https://weeklysanga.com/2006/03/01/caitanya-caritamrta-madhya-lila-chapter-1-text-2/",
    "datePublished": "2006-03-01",
    "dateModified": "2017-06-11",
    "language": "en-US",
    "description": "I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Krsna Caitanya and Lord Nityananda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauda to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.",
    "author": "Rathi Krishna dasa",
    "publisher": "Weekly Sanga"
}
```

# Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya-lila Chapter 1 Text 2

**[Caitanya-caritāmṛta Madhya-līlā Chapter 1 Text 2](http://www.vedabase.com/en/cc/madhya/1/2/)**

 

*
vande śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-
nityānandau sahoditau
gauḍodaye puṣpavantau
citrau śan-dau tamo-nudau
* 

TRANSLATION
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and Lord Nityānanda, who are like the sun and moon. They have arisen simultaneously on the horizon of Gauḍa to dissipate the darkness of ignorance and thus wonderfully bestow benediction upon all.