Rūpa Gosvāmī

Rūpa Gosvāmī (flourished 1500–50) was a scholar, poet, and author of many Sanskrit works; he was one of the most influential and remarkable of the medieval saints of India. Rūpa Gosvāmī was the most eminent of the six gosvāmīs appointed as his successors by the founder of Gauḍīya Vaiṣ-ṇavism, the Bengali saint Caitanya. Rūpa’s great achievement was to establish the theological foundation of the sect Caitanya founded, emphasizing ecstatic devotion to Krishna and techniques for...