If you think that Vaishnavas are born and die than you are not to be delivered for millions of kalpas I am sorry but this is fact Anyone who does not float in this inundation is most condemned Such a person can not be delivered for millions of kalpas PURPORT The kalpa is explained in the Bhagavad g t 8 17 sahasra yuga paryantam ahar yad brahma o vidu One day of Brahm is called a kalpa A yuga or mah yuga consists of 4 320 000 years and one thousand such mah yugas constitute one kalpa The author of r Caitanya carit m ta says that if one does not take advantage of the K a consciousness movement of r Caitanya Mah prabhu he can not be delivered for millions of such kalpas However you are lucky Q Can Shri Chaitanya bhagavata be distributed to the common people before they have read the Gita and Bhagavatam A Yes Shri Chaitanya bhagavata can be distributed along with the Gita even before Bhagavatam according to Shrila Prabhupada s purport on Cc Adi 8 36 In the first part of the purport he explains that Shrimad Bhagavatam is difficult to understand for the common man due to four reasons 1 It is very elaborate due to it being the commentary on the the highly condensed Vedanta sutra and it is in Sanskrit which is a very difficult language to understand for the common man thus few men can understand its purport 2 Professional reciters have created the impression that Shrimad Bhagavatam deals only with Krishna s rasa lila and thus presented Krishna as a great woman hunter 3 Professional reciters have introduced bhagavata saptaha or seven day readings of the Bhagavatam Then Prabhupada explains that under these circumstances it is a great aid for the common man to read Shrila Vrindavana dasa Thakura s Chaitanya bhagavata for thus he can actually understand devotional service Krishna Lord Chaitanya and Nityananda Due to misunderstanding Shrimad Bhagavatam people are misled regarding the science of Krishna However by reading Shrila Vrindavana dasa Thakura s book one can very easily understand this science So it is pretty clear that Shri Chaitanya bhagavata is a great book to introduce to the common people who normally may not have the required intelligence patience to understand the most elaborate Shrimad Bhagavatam Also Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura has said said that Chaitanya Bhagavata is more important than Chaitanya charitamrita for the common man because it is a lila grantha Without describing so much about philosophy it describes the lila of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and is therefore easy for the common man to follow and understand the philosophy Even though Sarasvati Thakura himself mostly explained philosophy he said that philosophy is only for the greatly learned people and for the common men Chaitanya Bhagavata is more important So he said Read Chaitanya Bhagavata from time to time If anyone came to him he would ask them if they had read Chaitanya Bhagavata He often asked people this including non devotees He recommended that for ordinary people the first Vaishnava literature they read be Chaitanya Bhagavata Q Then why did not Shrila Prabhupada explicitly tell us to read this book and distribute it in mass quantities A One immediate answer is because Shrila Prabhupada had not translated the book Shrila Prabhupada did give great importance to Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu s pastimes that is proved by the fact that he left the translation of the Bhagavatam in middle to complete Shri Chaitanya charitamrita So actually he did nt have time to translate Shri Chaitanya bhagavata Although Prabhupada has said that his books are enough he did say that reading Shri Chaitanya bhagavata will be a great aid for the common man that one should read this book if he has to preach the gospel of Lord Chaitanya that readers will profit much by going through Shri Chaitanya bhagavata SB Intro So I would say that it is not against the teachings of Prabhupada to introduce this book with the original Bengali verses translation to the common people Q But the translation is not done by Prabhupada So how will we know whether it is bona fide A Shri Chaitanya bhagavata is full of very simple but very sweet Bengali verses which are very easy to translate into any language if the devotee translator is little intelligent and has a little knowledge of Bengali which is very easy to get There are very few Sanskrit verses in the whole book and some of them are from the Bhagavatam For example translation into Indian languages like Hindi Marathi Gujarati Telugu etc is very eas