PURPORT

All the activities of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were noted by His personal secretary Svarupa Damodara and repeated to Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, who memorized them. Whatever Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami heard is recorded in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. This is called the parampara system, from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to Svarupa Damodara to Raghunatha dasa Gosvami to Kaviraja Gosvami. Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami has distributed this information in his book Caitanya-caritamrta. In other words, Caitanya-caritamrta is the essence of the instruction given through the parampara system of the disciplic succession stemming from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.