Chapter 6

The Glories of Sri Advaita Acarya

The truth of Advaita Acarya has been described in two different verses. It is said that material nature has two features, namely the material cause and the efficient cause. The efficient causal activities are caused by Maha-Visnu, and the material causal activities are caused by another form of Maha-Visnu, known as Advaita. That Advaita, the superintendent of the cosmic manifestation, has descended in the form of Advaita to associate with Lord Caitanya. When He is addressed as the servitor of Lord Caitanya, His glories are magnified because unless one is invigorated by this mentality of servitorship one cannot understand the mellows derived from devotional service to the Supreme Lord, Krsna.






TEXT 1

vande tam srimad-advaita-
caryam adbhuta-cestitam
yasya prasadad ajno 'pi
tat-svarupam nirupayet

SYNONYMS

vande--I offer my respectful obeisances; tam--unto Him; srimat--with all opulences; advaita-acaryam--Sri Advaita Acarya; adbhuta-cestitam--whose activities are wonderful; yasya--of whom; prasadat--by the mercy; ajnah api--even a foolish person; tat-svarupam--His characteristics; nirupayet--may describe.

TRANSLATION

I offer my respectful obeisances to Sri Advaita Acarya, whose activities are all wonderful. By His mercy, even a foolish person can describe His characteristics.






TEXT 2

jaya jaya sri-caitanya jaya nityananda
jayadvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vrnda

SYNONYMS

jaya jaya--all glories; sri-caitanya--to Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; jaya--all glories; nityananda--to Lord Nityananda; jaya advaita-candra--all glories to Advaita Acarya; jaya gaura-bhakta-vrnda--all glories to the devotees of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

All glories to Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. All glories to Lord Nityananda. All glories to Advaita Acarya. And all glories to all the devotees of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.






TEXT 3

panca sloke kahila sri-nityananda-tattva
sloka-dvaye kahi advaitacaryera mahattva

SYNONYMS

panca sloke--in five verses; kahila--described; sri-nityananda-tattva--the truth of Sri Nityananda; sloka-dvaye--in two verses; kahi--I describe; advaita-acaryera--of Advaita Acarya; mahattva--the glories.

TRANSLATION

In five verses I have described the principle of Lord Nityananda. Then in the following two verses I describe the glories of Sri Advaita Acarya.






TEXT 4

maha-visnur jagat-karta
mayaya yah srjaty adah
tasyavatara evayam
advaitacarya isvarah

SYNONYMS

maha-visnuh--of the name Maha-Visnu, the resting place of the efficient cause; jagat-karta--the creator of the cosmic world; mayaya--by the illusory energy; yah--who; srjati--creates; adah--that universe; tasya--His; avatarah--incarnation; eva--certainly; ayam--this; advaita-acaryah--of the name Advaita Acarya; isvarah--the Supreme Lord, the resting place of the material cause.

TRANSLATION

Lord Advaita Acarya is the incarnation of Maha-Visnu, whose main function is to create the cosmic world through the actions of maya.






TEXT 5

advaitam harinadvaitad
acaryam bhakti-samsanat
bhaktavataram isam tam
advaitacaryam asraye

SYNONYMS

advaitam--known as Advaita; harina--with Lord Hari; advaitat--from being nondifferent; acaryam--known as Acarya; bhakti-samsanat--from the propagation of devotional service to Sri Krsna; bhakta-avataram--the incarnation as a devotee; isam--to the Supreme Lord; tam--to Him; advaita-acaryam--to Advaita Acarya; asraye--I surrender.

TRANSLATION

Because He is nondifferent from Hari, the Supreme Lord, He is called Advaita, and because He propagates the cult of devotion, He is called Acarya. He is the Lord and the incarnation of the Lord's devotee. Therefore I take shelter of Him.






TEXT 6

advaita-acarya gosani saksat isvara
yanhara mahima nahe jivera gocara

SYNONYMS

advaita-acarya--of the name Advaita Acarya; gosani--the Lord; saksat isvara--directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yanhara mahima--whose glories; nahe--not; jivera gocara--within the reach of the understanding of ordinary living beings.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is indeed directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. His glory is beyond the conception of ordinary living beings.






TEXT 7

maha-visnu srsti karena jagad-adi karya
tanra avatara saksat advaita acarya

SYNONYMS

maha-visnu--the original Visnu; srsti--creation; karena--does; jagat-adi--the material world; karya--the occupation; tanra--His; avatara--incarnation; saksat--directly; advaita acarya--Prabhu Advaita Acarya.

TRANSLATION

Maha-Visnu performs all the functions for the creation of the universes. Sri Advaita Acarya is His direct incarnation.






TEXT 8

ye purusa srsti-sthiti karena mayaya
ananta brahmanda srsti karena lilaya

SYNONYMS

ye purusa--that personality who; srsti-sthiti--creation and maintenance; karena--performs; mayaya--through the external energy; ananta brahmanda--unlimited universes; srsti--creation; karena--does; lilaya--by pastimes.

TRANSLATION

That purusa creates and maintains with His external energy. He creates innumerable universes in His pastimes.






TEXT 9

icchaya ananta murti karena prakasa
eka eka murte karena brahmande pravesa

SYNONYMS

icchaya--by His will; ananta murti--unlimited forms; karena--does; prakasa--manifestation; eka eka--each and every; murte--form; karena--does; brahmande--within the universe; pravesa--entrance.

TRANSLATION

By His will He manifests Himself in unlimited forms, in which He enters each and every universe.






TEXT 10

se purusera amsa----advaita, nahi kichu bheda
sarira-visesa tanra----nahika viccheda

SYNONYMS

se--that; purusera--of the Lord; amsa--part; advaita--Advaita Acarya; nahi--not; kichu--any; bheda--difference; sarira-visesa--another specific transcendental body; tanra--of Him; nahika viccheda--there is no separation.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is a plenary part of that purusa and so is not different from Him. Indeed, Sri Advaita Acarya is not separate but is another form of that purusa.






TEXT 11

sahaya karena tanra la-iya 'pradhana'
koti brahmanda karena icchaya nirmana

SYNONYMS

sahaya karena--He helps; tanra--His; la-iya--with; pradhana--the material energy; koti-brahmanda--millions of universes; karena--does; icchaya--only by the will; nirmana--creation.

TRANSLATION

He [Advaita Acarya] helps in the pastimes of the purusa, with whose material energy and by whose will He creates innumerable universes.






TEXT 12

jagat-mangala advaita, mangala-guna-dhama
mangala-caritra sada, 'mangala' yanra nama

SYNONYMS

jagat-mangala--all-auspicious to the world; advaita--Advaita Acarya; mangala-guna-dhama--the reservoir of all auspicious attributes; mangala-caritra--all characteristics are auspicious; sada--always; mangala--auspicious; yanra nama--whose name.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is all-auspicious to the world, for He is a reservoir of all auspicious attributes. His characteristics, activities and name are always auspicious.

PURPORT

Sri Advaita Prabhu, who is an incarnation of Maha-Visnu, is an acarya, or teacher. All His activities and all the other activities of Visnu are auspicious. Anyone who can view the all-auspiciousness in the pastimes of Lord Visnu also becomes auspicious simultaneously. Therefore, since Lord Visnu is the fountainhead of auspiciousness, anyone who is attracted by the devotional service of Lord Visnu can render the greatest service to human society. Rejected persons of the material world who refuse to understand pure devotional service as the eternal function of the living entities, and as actual liberation of the living being from conditional life, become bereft of all devotional service because of their poor fund of knowledge.

In the teachings of Advaita Prabhu there is no question of fruitive activities or impersonal liberation. Bewildered by the spell of material energy, however, persons who could not understand that Advaita Prabhu is nondifferent from Visnu wanted to follow Him with their impersonal conceptions. The attempt of Advaita Prabhu to punish them is also auspicious. Lord Visnu and His activities can bestow all good fortune, directly and indirectly. In other words, being favored by Lord Visnu and being punished by Lord Visnu are one and the same because all the activities of Visnu are absolute. According to some, Mangala was another name of Advaita Prabhu. As the causal incarnation, or Lord Visnu's incarnation for a particular occasion, He is the supply agent or ingredient in material nature. However, He is never to be considered material. All His activities are spiritual. Anyone who hears about and glorifies Him becomes glorified himself, for such activities free one from all kinds of misfortune. One should not invest any material contamination or impersonalism in the Visnu form. Everyone should try to understand the real identity of Lord Visnu, for by such knowledge one can attain the highest stage of perfection.






TEXT 13

koti amsa, koti sakti, koti avatara
eta lana srje purusa sakala samsara

SYNONYMS

koti amsa--millions of parts and parcels; koti sakti--millions and millions of energies; koti avatara--millions upon millions of incarnations; eta--all this; lana--taking; srje--creates; purusa--the original person, Maha-Visnu; sakala samsara--all the material world.

TRANSLATION

Maha-Visnu creates the entire material world, with millions of His parts, energies and incarnations.






TEXTS 14-15

maya yaiche dui amsa----'nimitta', 'upadana'
maya----'nimitta'-hetu, upadana----'pradhana'

purusa isvara aiche dvi-murti ha-iya
visva-srsti kare 'nimitta' 'upadana' lana

SYNONYMS

maya--the external energy; yaiche--as; dui amsa--two parts; nimitta--the cause; upadana--the ingredients; maya--the material energy; nimitta-hetu--original cause; upadana--ingredients; pradhana--immediate cause; purusa--the person Lord Visnu; isvara--the Supreme Personality of Godhead; aiche--in that way; dvi-murti ha-iya--taking two forms; visva-srsti kare--creates this material world; nimitta--the original cause; upadana--the material cause; lana--with.

TRANSLATION

Just as the external energy consists of two parts-the efficient cause [nimitta] and the material cause [upadana], maya being the efficient cause and pradhana the material cause-so Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, assumes two forms to create the material world with the efficient and material causes.

PURPORT

There are two kinds of research to find the original cause of creation. One conclusion is that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the all-blissful, eternal, all knowing form, is indirectly the cause of this cosmic manifestation and directly the cause of the spiritual world, where there are innumerable spiritual planets known as Vaikunthas as well as His personal abode, known as Goloka Vrndavana. In other words, there are two manifestations--the material cosmos and the spiritual world. As in the material world there are innumerable planets and universes, so in the spiritual world there are also innumerable spiritual planets and universes, including the Vaikunthas and Goloka. The Supreme Lord is the cause of both the material and spiritual worlds. The other conclusion, of course, is that this cosmic manifestation is caused by an inexplicable unmanifested void. This argument is meaningless.

The first conclusion is accepted by the Vedanta philosophers, and the second is supported by the atheistic philosophical system of the Sankhya smrti, which directly opposes the Vedantic philosophical conclusion. Material scientists cannot see any cognizant spiritual substance that might be the cause of the creation. Such atheistic Sankhya philosophers think that the symptoms of knowledge and living force visible in the innumerable living creatures are caused by the three qualities of the cosmic manifestation. Therefore the Sankhyites are against the conclusion of Vedanta regarding the original cause of creation.

Factually, the supreme absolute spirit soul is the cause of every kind of manifestation, and He is always complete, both as the energy and as the energetic. The cosmic manifestation is caused by the energy of the Supreme Absolute Person, in whom all energies are conserved. Philosophers who are subjectively engaged in the cosmic manifestation can appreciate only the wonderful energies of matter. Such philosophers accept the conception of God only as a product of material energy. According to their conclusions, the source of the energy is also a product of the energy. Such philosophers wrongly observe that the living creatures within the cosmic manifestation are caused by the material energy, and they think that the supreme absolute conscious being must similarly be a product of the material energy.

Since materialistic philosophers and scientists are too much engaged with their imperfect senses, naturally they conclude that the living force is a product of a material combination. But the actual fact is just the opposite. Matter is a product of spirit. According to the Bhagavad-gita, the supreme spirit, the Personality of Godhead, is the source of all energies. When one advances in research work by studying a limited substance within the limits of space and time, one is amazed by the various wonderful cosmic manifestations, and naturally one goes on hypnotically accepting the path of research work or the inductive method. Through the deductive way of understanding, however, one accepts the Supreme Absolute Person, the Personality of Godhead, as the cause of all causes, who is full with diverse energies and who is neither impersonal nor void. The impersonal manifestation of the Supreme Person is another display of His energy. Therefore the conclusion that matter is the original cause of creation is completely different from the real truth. The material manifestation is caused by the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is inconceivably potent. Material nature is electrified by the supreme authority, and the conditioned soul, within the limits of time and space, is trapped by awe of the material manifestation. In other words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is actually realized in the vision of a material philosopher and scientist through the manifestations of His material energy. For one who does not understand the power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His diverse energies because of not knowing the relationship between the source of the energies and the energies themselves, there is always a chance of error, which is known as vivarta. As long as materialistic scientists and philosophers do not come to the right conclusion, certainly they will hover above the material field, bereft of proper understanding of the Absolute Truth.

The great Vaisnava philosopher Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana has very nicely explained the materialistic conclusion in his Govinda-bhasya on the Vedanta-sutra. He writes as follows:

"The Sankhya philosopher Kapila has connected the different elementary truths according to his own opinion. Material nature, according to him, consists of the equilibrium of the three material qualities, goodness, passion and ignorance. Material nature produced the material energy, known as mahat, and mahat produced the false ego. The ego produced the five objects of sense perception, which produced the ten senses (five for acquiring knowledge and five for working), the mind and the five gross elements. Counting the purusa, or the enjoyer, with these twenty-four elements, there are twenty-five different truths. The nonmanifested stage of these twenty-five elementary truths is called prakrti, or material nature. The qualities of material nature can associate in three different stages, namely as the cause of happiness, the cause of distress and the cause of illusion. The quality of goodness is the cause of material happiness, the quality of passion is the cause of material distress, and the quality of ignorance is the cause of illusion. Our material experience lies within the boundaries of these three manifestations of happiness, distress and illusion. For example, a beautiful woman is certainly a cause of material happiness for one who possesses her as a wife, but the same beautiful woman is a cause of distress to a man whom she rejects or who is the cause of her anger, and if she leaves a man she becomes the cause of illusion.

"The two kinds of senses are the ten external senses and the one internal sense, the mind. Thus there are eleven senses. According to Kapila, material nature is eternal and all-powerful. Originally there is no spirit, and matter has no cause. Matter itself is the chief cause of everything. It is the all-pervading cause of all causes. The Sankhya philosophy regards the total energy (mahat-tattva), the false ego and the five objects of sense perception as the seven diverse manifestations of material nature, which has two features, known as the material cause and efficient cause. The purusa, the enjoyer, is without transformation, whereas material nature is always subject to transformation. But although material nature is inert, it is the cause of enjoyment and salvation for many living creatures. Its activities are beyond the conception of sense perception, but still one may guess at them by superior intelligence. Material nature is one, but because of the interaction of the three qualities, it can produce the total energy and the wonderful cosmic manifestation. Such transformations divide material nature into two features, namely the efficient and material causes. The purusa, the enjoyer, is inactive and without material qualities, although at the same time He is the master, existing separately in each and every body as the emblem of knowledge. By understanding the material cause, one can guess that the purusa, the enjoyer, being without activity, is aloof from all kinds of enjoyment or superintendence. Sankhya philosophy, after describing the nature of prakrti (material nature) and purusa (the enjoyer), asserts that the creation is only a product of their unification or proximity to one another. With such unification the living symptoms are visible in material nature, but one can guess that in the person of the enjoyer, purusa, there are powers of control and enjoyment. When the purusa is illusioned for want of sufficient knowledge, He feels Himself to be the enjoyer, and when He is in full knowledge He is liberated. In the Sankhya philosophy the purusa is described to be always indifferent to the activities of prakrti.

"The Sankhya philosopher accepts three kinds of evidences, namely direct perception, hypothesis and traditional authority. When such evidence is complete, everything is perfect. The process of comparison is within such perfection. Beyond such evidence there is no proof. There is not much controversy regarding direct perceptional evidence or authorized traditional evidence. The Sankhya system of philosophy identifies three kinds of procedures--namely, parimanat (transformation), samanvayat (adjustment) and saktitah (performance of energies)--as the causes of the cosmic manifestation."

Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, in his commentary on the Vedanta-sutra, has tried to nullify this conclusion because he thinks that discrediting these so-called causes of the cosmic manifestation will nullify the entire Sankhya philosophy. Materialistic philosophers accept matter to be the material and efficient cause of creation; for them, matter is the cause of every type of manifestation. Generally they give the example of a waterpot and clay. Clay is the cause of the waterpot, but the clay can be found as both cause and effect. The waterpot is the effect and clay itself is the cause, but clay is visible everywhere. A tree is matter, but a tree produces fruit. Water is matter, but water flows. In this way, say the Sankhyites, matter is the cause of movements and production. As such, matter can be considered the material and efficient cause of everything in the cosmic manifestation. Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana has therefore enunciated the nature of pradhana as follows:

"Material nature is inert, and as such it cannot be the cause of matter, neither as the material nor as the efficient cause. Seeing the wonderful arrangement and management of the cosmic manifestation generally suggests that a living brain is behind this arrangement, for without a living brain such an arrangement could not exist. One should not imagine that such an arrangement can exist without conscious direction. In our practical experience we never see that inert bricks can themselves construct a big building.

"The example of the waterpot cannot be accepted because a waterpot has no perception of pleasure and distress. Such perception is within. Therefore the covering body, or the waterpot, cannot be synchronized with it.

"Sometimes the material scientist suggests that trees grow from the earth automatically, without assistance from a gardener, because that is a tendency of matter. They also consider the intuition of living creatures from birth to be material. But such material tendencies as bodily intuition cannot be accepted as independent, for they suggest the existence of a spirit soul within the body. Actually, the tree or the body of a living creature has no tendency or intuition; the tendency and intuition exist because the soul is present within the body. In this connection, the example of a car and driver may be given very profitably. The car has a tendency to turn right and left, but one cannot say that the car itself, as matter, turns right and left without the direction of a driver. A material car has neither tendencies nor intuitions independent of the intentions of the driver within the car. The same principle applies for the automatic growth of trees in the forest. The growth takes place because of the soul's presence within the tree.

"Sometimes foolish people take for granted that because scorpions are born from heaps of rice, the rice has produced the scorpions. The real fact, however, is this: the mother scorpion lays eggs within the rice, and by the proper fermentation of the rice the eggs give birth to several baby scorpions, which in due course come out. This does not mean that the rice gives birth to the scorpions. Similarly, sometimes bugs are seen to come from dirty beds. This does not mean, however, that the beds give birth to the bugs. It is the living soul that comes forth, taking advantage of the dirty condition of the bed. There are different kinds of living creatures. Some of them come from embryos, some from eggs and some from the fermentation of perspiration. Different living creatures have different sources of appearance, but one should not conclude that matter produces such living creatures.

"The example cited by materialists that trees automatically come from the earth follows the same principle. Taking advantage of a certain condition, a living entity comes from the earth. According to the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad, every living being is forced by divine superintendence to take a certain type of body according to his past deeds. There are many varieties of bodies, and because of a divine arrangement a living entity takes bodies of different shapes.

"When a person thinks 'I am doing this,' the 'I am' does not refer to the body. It refers to something more than the body, or within the body. As such, the body as it is has neither tendencies nor intuition; the tendencies and intuition belong to the soul within the body. Material scientists sometimes suggest that the tendencies of male and female bodies cause their union and that this is the cause of the birth of the child. But since the purusa, according to Sankhya philosophy, is always unaffected, where does the tendency to give birth come from?

"Sometimes material scientists give the example that milk turns into curd automatically and that distilled water pouring from the clouds falls down to earth, produces different kinds of trees, and enters different kinds of flowers and fruits with different fragrances and tastes. Therefore, they say, matter produces varieties of material things on its own. In reply to this argument, the same proposition of the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad--that different kinds of living creatures are put into different kinds of bodies by the management of a superior power--is repeated. Under superior superintendence, various souls, according to their past activities, are given the chance to take a particular type of body, such as that of a tree, animal, bird or beast, and thus their different tendencies develop under these circumstances. The Bhagavad-gita (13.22) also further affirms:

purusah prakrti-stho hi
bhunkte prakrti-jan gunan
karanam guna-sango 'sya
sad-asad-yoni-janmasu
'The living entity in material nature thus follows the ways of life, enjoying the three modes of nature. This is due to his association with that material nature. Thus he meets with good and evil among various species.' The soul is given different types of bodies. For example, were souls not given varieties of tree bodies, the different varieties of fruits and flowers could not be produced. Each class of tree produces a particular kind of fruit and flower; it is not that there is no distinction between the different classes. An individual tree does not produce flowers of different colors or fruits of different tastes. There are demarcated classes, as we find them among humans, animals, birds and other species. There are innumerable living entities, and their activities, performed in the material world according to the different qualities of the material modes of nature, give them the chance to have different kinds of life.

"Thus one should understand that pradhana, matter, cannot act unless impelled by a living creature. The materialistic theory that matter independently acts cannot, therefore, be accepted. Matter is called prakrti, which refers to female energy. A woman is prakrti, a female. A female cannot produce a child without the association of a purusa, a man. The purusa causes the birth of a child because the man injects the soul, which is sheltered in the semen, into the womb of the woman. The woman, as the material cause, supplies the body of the soul, and as the efficient cause she gives birth to the child. But although the woman appears to be the material and efficient cause of the birth of a child, originally the purusa, the male, is the cause of the child. Similarly, this material world gives rise to varieties of manifestations due to the entrance of Garbhodakasayi Visnu within the universe. He is present not only within the universe but within the bodies of all living creatures, as well as within the atom. We understand from the Brahma-samhita that the Supersoul is present within the universe, within the atom and within the heart of every living creature. Therefore the theory that matter is the cause of the entire cosmic manifestation cannot be accepted by any man with sufficient knowledge of matter and spirit.

"Materialists sometimes give the argument that as straw eaten by a cow produces milk automatically, so material nature, under different circumstances, produces varieties of manifestations. Thus originally matter is the cause. In refuting this argument, we may say that an animal of the same species as the cow--namely, the bull--also eats straw like the cow but does not produce milk. Under the circumstances, it cannot be said that straw in connection with a particular species produces milk. The conclusion should be that there is superior management, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita (9.10), where the Lord says, mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram: 'This material nature is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, and it is producing all moving and unmoving beings.' The Supreme Lord says, mayadhyaksena ('under My superintendence'). When He desires that the cow produce milk by eating straw, there is milk, and when He does not so desire it, the mixture of such straw cannot produce milk. If the way of material nature had been that straw produced milk, a stack of straw could also produce milk. But that is not possible. And the same straw given to a human female also cannot produce milk. That is the meaning of the Bhagavad-gita's statement that only under superior orders does anything take place. Matter itself has no power to produce independently. The conclusion, therefore, is that matter, which has no self-knowledge, cannot be the cause of the material creation. The ultimate creator is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

"If matter were accepted as the original cause of creation, all the authorized scriptures in the world would be useless, for in every scripture, especially the Vedic scriptures like the Manu-smrti, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is said to be the ultimate creator. The Manu-smrti is considered the highest Vedic direction to humanity. Manu is the giver of law to mankind, and in the Manu-smrti it is clearly stated that before the creation the entire universal space was darkness, without information and without variety, and was in a state of complete suspension, like a dream. Everything was darkness. The Supreme Personality of Godhead then entered the universal space, and although He is invisible, He created the visible cosmic manifestation. In the material world the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not manifested by His personal presence, but the presence of the cosmic manifestation in different varieties is the proof that everything has been created under His direction. He entered the universe with all creative potencies, and thus He removed the darkness of the unlimited space.

"The form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is described to be transcendental, very subtle, eternal, all-pervading, inconceivable and therefore nonmanifested to the material senses of a conditioned living creature. He desired to expand Himself into many living entities, and with such a desire He first created a vast expanse of water within the universal space and then impregnated that water with living entities. By that process of impregnation a massive body appeared, blazing like a thousand suns, and in that body was the first creative principle, Brahma. The great Parasara Rsi has also confirmed this in the Visnu Purana. He says that the cosmic manifestation visible to us is produced from Lord Visnu and sustained under His protection. He is the principal maintainer and destroyer of the universal form.

"This cosmic manifestation is one of the diverse energies of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As a spider secretes saliva and weaves a web by its own movements but at the end winds the web within its body, so Lord Visnu produces this cosmic manifestation from His transcendental body and at the end winds it up within Himself. All the great sages of the Vedic understanding have accepted that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original creator.

"It is sometimes claimed that the impersonal speculations of great philosophers are meant for the advancement of knowledge without religious ritualistic principles. But the religious ritualistic principles are actually meant for the advancement of spiritual knowledge. By performance of religious rituals one ultimately reaches the supreme goal of knowledge by understanding that Vasudeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the cause of everything. It is clearly stated in the Bhagavad-gita that even those who are advocates of knowledge only, without any religious ritualistic processes, advance in knowledge after many, many lifetimes of speculation and thus come to the conclusion that Vasudeva is the supreme cause of everything that be. As a result of this achievement of the goal of life, such an advanced learned scholar or philosopher surrenders unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Religious ritualistic performances are actually meant to cleanse the contaminated mind in the material world, and the special feature of this Age of Kali is that one can easily execute the process of cleansing the mind of contamination by chanting the holy names of God--Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare. Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

"A Vedic injunction states, sarve veda yat padam amananti (Katha Upanisad 1.2.15): all Vedic knowledge is searching after the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Similarly, another Vedic injunction states, narayana-para vedah: the Vedas are meant for understanding Narayana, the Supreme Lord. Similarly, the Bhagavad-gita also confirms, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: by all the Vedas, Krsna is to be known. Therefore, the main purpose of understanding the Vedas, performing Vedic sacrifices and speculating on the Vedanta-sutra is to understand Krsna. Accepting the impersonalist view of voidness or the nonexistence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead negates all study of the Vedas. Impersonal speculation aims at disproving the conclusion of the Vedas. Therefore any impersonal speculative presentation should be understood to be against the principles of the Vedas or standard scriptures. Since the speculation of the impersonalists does not follow the principles of the Vedas, their conclusion must be considered to be against the Vedic principles. Anything not supported by the Vedic principles must be considered imaginary and lacking in standard proof. Therefore no impersonalist explanation of any Vedic literature can be accepted.

"If one tries to nullify the conclusions of the Vedas by accepting an unauthorized scripture or so-called scripture, it will be very hard for him to come to the right conclusion about the Absolute Truth. The system for adjusting two contradictory scriptures is to refer to the Vedas, for references from the Vedas are accepted as final judgments. When we refer to a particular scripture, it must be authorized, and for this authority it must strictly follow the Vedic injunctions. If someone presents an alternative doctrine he himself has manufactured, that doctrine will prove itself useless, for any doctrine that tries to prove that Vedic evidence is meaningless immediately proves itself meaningless. The followers of the Vedas unanimously accept the authority of Manu and Parasara in the disciplic succession. Their statements, however, do not support the atheistic Kapila because the Kapila mentioned in the Vedas is a different Kapila, the son of Kardama and Devahuti. The atheist Kapila is a descendant of the dynasty of Agni and is one of the conditioned souls. But the Kapila who is the son of Kardama Muni is accepted as an incarnation of Vasudeva. The Padma Purana gives evidence that the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vasudeva takes birth in the incarnation of Kapila and, by His expansion of theistic Sankhya philosophy, teaches all the demigods and a brahmana of the name Asuri. In the doctrine of the atheist Kapila there are many statements directly against the Vedic principles. The atheist Kapila does not accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He says that the living entity is himself the Supreme Lord and that no one is greater than him. His conceptions of so-called conditioned and liberated life are materialistic, and he refuses to accept the importance of immortal time. All such statements are against the principles of the Vedanta-sutra."






TEXT 16

apane purusa----visvera 'nimitta'-karana
advaita-rupe 'upadana' hana narayana

SYNONYMS

apane--personally; purusa--Lord Visnu; visvera--of the entire material world; nimitta karana--the original cause; advaita-rupe--in the form of Advaita; upadana--the material cause; hana--becomes; narayana--Lord Narayana.

TRANSLATION

Lord Visnu Himself is the efficient [nimitta] cause of the material world, and Narayana in the form of Sri Advaita is the material cause [upadana].






TEXT 17

'nimittamse' kare tenho mayate iksana
'upadana' advaita karena brahmanda-srjana

SYNONYMS

nimitta-amse--in the portion as the original cause; kare--does; tenho--He; mayate--in the external energy; iksana--glancing; upadana--the material cause; advaita--Advaita Acarya; karena--does; brahmanda-srjana--creation of the material world.

TRANSLATION

Lord Visnu, in His efficient aspect, glances over the material energy, and Sri Advaita, as the material cause, creates the material world.






TEXT 18

yadyapi sankhya mane, 'pradhana'----karana
jada ha-ite kabhu nahe jagat-srjana

SYNONYMS

yadyapi--although; sankhya--Sankhya philosophy; mane--accepts; pradhana--ingredients; karana--cause; jada ha-ite--from matter; kabhu--at any time; nahe--there is not; jagat-srjana--the creation of the material world.

TRANSLATION

Although the Sankhya philosophy accepts that the material ingredients are the cause, the creation of the world never arises from dead matter.






TEXT 19

nija srsti-sakti prabhu sancare pradhane
isvarera saktye tabe haye ta' nirmane

SYNONYMS

nija--own; srsti-sakti--power for creation; prabhu--the Lord; sancare--infuses; pradhane--in the ingredients; isvarera saktye--by the power of the Lord; tabe--then; haye--there is; ta'--certainly; nirmane--the beginning of creation.

TRANSLATION

The Lord infuses the material ingredients with His own creative potency. Then, by the power of the Lord, creation takes place.






TEXT 20

advaita-rupe kare sakti-sancarana
ataeva advaita hayena mukhya karana

SYNONYMS

advaita-rupe--in the form of Advaita Acarya; kare--does; sakti-sancarana--infusion of the energy; ataeva--therefore; advaita--Advaita Acarya; hayena--is; mukhya karana--the original cause.

TRANSLATION

In the form of Advaita He infuses the material ingredients with creative energy. Therefore, Advaita is the original cause of creation.






TEXT 21

advaita-acarya koti-brahmandera karta
ara eka eka murtye brahmandera bharta

SYNONYMS

advaita-acarya--of the name Advaita Acarya; koti-brahmandera karta--the creator of millions and millions of universes; ara--and; eka eka--each and every; murtye--by expansions; brahmandera bharta--maintainer of the universe.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is the creator of millions and millions of universes, and by His expansions [as Garbhodakasayi Visnu] He maintains each and every universe.






TEXT 22

sei narayanera mukhya anga,----advaita
'anga'-sabde amsa kari' kahe bhagavata

SYNONYMS

sei--that; narayanera--of Lord Narayana; mukhya anga--the primary part; advaita--Advaita Acarya; anga-sabde--by the word anga; amsa kari'--taking as a plenary portion; kahe--says; bhagavata--Srimad-Bhagavatam.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita is the principal limb [anga] of Narayana. Srimad-Bhagavatam speaks of "limb" [anga] as "a plenary portion" [amsa] of the Lord.






TEXT 23

narayanas tvam na hi sarva-dehinam
atmasy adhisakhila-loka-saksi
narayano 'ngam nara-bhu-jalayanat
tac capi satyam na tavaiva maya

SYNONYMS

narayanah--Lord Narayana; tvam--You; na--not; hi--certainly; sarva--all; dehinam--of the embodied beings; atma--the Supersoul; asi--You are; adhisa--O Lord; akhila-loka--of all the worlds; saksi--the witness; narayanah--known as Narayana; angam--plenary portion; nara--of Nara; bhu--born; jala--in the water; ayanat--due to the place of refuge; tat--that; ca--and; api--certainly; satyam--highest truth; na--not; tava--Your; eva--at all; maya--the illusory energy.

TRANSLATION

"O Lord of lords, You are the seer of all creation. You are indeed everyone's dearest life. Are You not, therefore, my father, Narayana? 'Narayana' refers to one whose abode is in the water born from Nara [Garbhodakasayi Visnu ], and that Narayana is Your plenary portion. All Your plenary portions are transcendental. They are absolute and are not creations of maya."

PURPORT

This text is from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.14.14).






TEXT 24

isvarera 'anga' amsa----cid-ananda-maya
mayara sambandha nahi' ei sloke kaya

SYNONYMS

isvarera--of the Lord; anga--limb; amsa--part; cit-ananda-maya--all-spiritual; mayara--of the material energy; sambandha--relationship; nahi'--there is not; ei sloke--this verse; kaya--says.

TRANSLATION

This verse describes that the limbs and plenary portions of the Lord are all spiritual; they have no relationship with the material energy.






TEXT 25

'amsa' na kahiya, kene kaha tanre 'anga'
'amsa' haite 'anga,' yate haya antaranga

SYNONYMS

amsa--part; na kahiya--not saying; kene--why; kaha--you say; tanre--Him; anga--limb; amsa haite--than a part; anga--limb; yate--because; haya--is; antaranga--more.

TRANSLATION

Why has Sri Advaita been called a limb and not a part? The reason is that "limb" implies greater intimacy.






TEXT 26

maha-visnura amsa----advaita guna-dhama
isvare abheda, teni 'advaita' purna nama

SYNONYMS

maha-visnura--of Lord Maha-Visnu; amsa--part; advaita--Advaita Acarya; guna-dhama--reservoir of all attributes; isvare--from the Lord; abheda--nondifferent; teni--therefore; advaita--nondifferent; purna nama--full name.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita, who is a reservoir of virtues, is the main limb of Maha-Visnu. His full name is Advaita, for He is identical in all respects with that Lord.






TEXT 27

purve yaiche kaila sarva-visvera srjana
avatari' kaila ebe bhakti-pravartana

SYNONYMS

purve--formerly; yaiche--as; kaila--performed; sarva--all; visvera--of the universes; srjana--creation; avatari'--taking incarnation; kaila--did; ebe--now; bhakti-pravartana--inauguration of the bhakti cult.

TRANSLATION

As He had formerly created all the universes, now He descended to introduce the path of bhakti.






TEXT 28

jiva nistarila krsna-bhakti kari' dana
gita-bhagavate kaila bhaktira vyakhyana

SYNONYMS

jiva--the living entities; nistarila--delivered; krsna-bhakti--devotional service to Lord Krsna; kari'--making; dana--gift; gita-bhagavate--in the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam; kaila--performed; bhaktira vyakhyana--explanation of devotional service.

TRANSLATION

He delivered all living beings by offering the gift of krsna-bhakti. He explained the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam in the light of devotional service.

PURPORT

Although Sri Advaita Prabhu is an incarnation of Visnu, for the welfare of the conditioned souls He manifested Himself as a servitor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and throughout all His activities He showed Himself to be an eternal servitor. Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda also manifested the same principle, although They also belong to the category of Visnu. If Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityananda and Advaita Prabhu had exhibited Their all-powerful Visnu potencies within this material world, people would have become greater impersonalists, monists and self-worshipers than they had already become under the spell of this age. Therefore the Personality of Godhead and His different incarnations and forms played the parts of devotees to instruct the conditioned souls how to approach the transcendental stage of devotional service. Advaita Acarya especially intended to teach the conditioned souls about devotional service. The word acarya means "teacher."The special function of such a teacher is to make people Krsna conscious. A bona fide teacher following in the footsteps of Advaita Acarya has no other business than to spread the principles of Krsna consciousness all over the world. The real qualification of an acarya is that he presents himself as a servant of the Supreme. Such a bona fide acarya can never support the demoniac activities of atheistic men who present themselves as God. It is the main business of an acarya to defy such imposters posing as God before the innocent public.






TEXT 29

bhakti-upadesa vinu tanra nahi karya
ataeva nama haila 'advaita acarya'

SYNONYMS

bhakti-upadesa--instruction of devotional service; vinu--without; tanra--His; nahi--there is not; karya--occupation; ataeva--therefore; nama--the name; haila--became; advaita acarya--the supreme teacher (acarya) Advaita Prabhu.

TRANSLATION

Since He has no other occupation than to teach devotional service, His name is Advaita Acarya.






TEXT 30

vaisnavera guru tenho jagatera arya
dui-nama-milane haila 'advaita-acarya'

SYNONYMS

vaisnavera--of the devotees; guru--spiritual master; tenho--He; jagatera arya--the most respectable personality in the world; dui-nama-milane--by combining the two names; haila--there was; advaita-acarya--the name Advaita Acarya.

TRANSLATION

He is the spiritual master of all devotees and is the most revered personality in the world. By a combination of these two names, His name is Advaita Acarya.

PURPORT

Sri Advaita Acarya is the prime spiritual master of the Vaisnavas, and He is worshipable by all Vaisnavas. Vaisnavas must follow in the footsteps of Advaita Acarya, for by so doing one can actually engage in the devotional service of the Lord.






TEXT 31

kamala-nayanera tenho, yate 'anga' 'amsa'
'kamalaksa' kari dhare nama avatamsa

SYNONYMS

kamala-nayanera--of the lotus-eyed; tenho--He; yate--since; anga--limb; amsa--part; kamala-aksa--the lotus-eyed; kari'--accepting that; dhare--takes; nama--the name; avatamsa--partial expansion.

TRANSLATION

Since He is a limb or part of the lotus-eyed Supreme Lord, He also bears the name Kamalaksa.






TEXT 32

isvara-sarupya paya parisada-gana
catur-bhuja, pita-vasa, yaiche narayana

SYNONYMS

isvara-sarupya--the same bodily features as the Lord; paya--gets; parisada-gana--the associates; catur-bhuja--four hands; pita-vasa--yellow dress; yaiche--just as; narayana--Lord Narayana.

TRANSLATION

His associates have the same bodily features as the Lord. They all have four arms and are dressed in yellow garments like Narayana.






TEXT 33

advaita-acarya----isvarera amsa-varya
tanra tattva-nama-guna, sakali ascarya

SYNONYMS

advaita-acarya--Advaita Acarya Prabhu; isvarera--of the Supreme Lord; amsa-varya--principal part; tanra--His; tattva--truths; nama--names; guna--attributes; sakali--all; ascarya--wonderful.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is the principal limb of the Supreme Lord. His truths, names and attributes are all wonderful.






TEXT 34

yanhara tulasi-jale, yanhara hunkare
sva-gana sahite caitanyera avatare

SYNONYMS

yanhara--whose; tulasi-jale--by tulasi leaves and Ganges water; yanhara--of whom; hunkare--by the loud voice; sva-gana--His personal associates; sahite--accompanied by; caitanyera--of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; avatare--in the incarnation.

TRANSLATION

He worshiped Krsna with tulasi leaves and water of the Ganges and called for Him in a loud voice. Thus Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared on earth, accompanied by His personal associates.






TEXT 35

yanra dvara kaila prabhu kirtana pracara
yanra dvara kaija prabhu jagat nistara

SYNONYMS

yanra dvara--by whom; kaila--did; prabhu--Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; kirtana pracara--spreading of the sankirtana movement; yanra dvara--by whom; kaila--did; prabhu--Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; jagat nistara--deliverance of the entire world.

TRANSLATION

It is through Him [Advaita Acarya] that Lord Caitanya spread the sankirtana movement and through Him that He delivered the world.






TEXT 36

acarya gosanira guna-mahima apara
jiva-kita kothaya paibeka tara para

SYNONYMS

acarya gosanira--of Advaita Acarya; guna-mahima--the glory of the attributes; apara--unfathomable; jiva-kita--a living being who is just like a worm; kothaya--where; paibeka--will get; tara--of that; para--the other side.

TRANSLATION

The glory and attributes of Advaita Acarya are unlimited. How can the insignificant living entities fathom them?






TEXT 37

acarya gosani caitanyera mukhya anga
ara eka anga tanra prabhu nityananda

SYNONYMS

acarya gosani--Advaita Acarya; caitanyera--of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; mukhya--primary; anga--part; ara--another; eka--one; anga--part; tanra--of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; prabhu nityananda--Lord Nityananda.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is a principal limb of Lord Caitanya. Another limb of the Lord is Nityananda Prabhu.






TEXT 38

prabhura upanga----srivasadi bhakta-gana
hasta-mukha-netra-anga cakrady-astra-sama

SYNONYMS

prabhura upanga--Lord Caitanya's smaller parts; srivasa-adi--headed by Srivasa; bhakta-gana--the devotees; hasta--hands; mukha--face; netra--eyes; anga--parts of the body; cakra-adi--the disc; astra--weapons; sama--like.

TRANSLATION

The devotees headed by Srivasa are His smaller limbs. They are like His hands, face and eyes and His disc and other weapons.






TEXT 39

e-saba la-iya caitanya-prabhura vihara
e-saba la-iya karena vanchita pracara

SYNONYMS

e-saba--all these; la-iya--taking; caitanya-prabhura--of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; vihara--pastimes; e-saba--all of them; la-iya--taking; karena--does; vanchita pracara--spreading His mission.

TRANSLATION

With all of them Lord Caitanya performed His pastimes, and with them He spread His mission.






TEXT 40

madhavendra-purira inho sisya, ei jnane
acarya-gosanire prabhu guru kari' mane

SYNONYMS

madhavendra-purira--of Madhavendra Puri; inho--Advaita Acarya; sisya--disciple; ei jnane--by this consideration; acarya-gosanire--unto Advaita Acarya; prabhu--Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; guru--spiritual master; kari'--taking as; mane--obeys Him.

TRANSLATION

Thinking "He [Sri Advaita Acarya] is a disciple of Sri Madhavendra Puri," Lord Caitanya obeys Him, respecting Him as His spiritual master.

PURPORT

Sri Madhavendra Puri is one of the acaryas in the disciplic succession from Madhvacarya. Madhavendra Puri had two principal disciples, Isvara Puri and Sri Advaita Prabhu. Therefore the Gaudiya Vaisnava-sampradaya is a disciplic succession from Madhvacarya. This fact has been accepted in the authorized books known as Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika and Prameya-ratnavali, as well as by Gopala Guru Gosvami. The Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika clearly states the disciplic succession of the Gaudiya Vaisnavas as follows: "Lord Brahma is the direct disciple of Visnu, the Lord of the spiritual sky. His disciple is Narada, Narada's disciple is Vyasa, and Vyasa's disciples are Sukadeva Gosvami and Madhvacarya. Padmanabha Acarya is the disciple of Madhvacarya, and Narahari is the disciple of Padmanabha Acarya. Madhava is the disciple of Narahari, Aksobhya is the direct disciple of Madhava, and Jayatirtha is the disciple of Aksobhya. Jayatirtha's disciple is Jnanasindhu, and his disciple is Mahanidhi. Vidyanidhi is the disciple of Mahanidhi, and Rajendra is the disciple of Vidyanidhi. Jayadharma is the disciple of Rajendra. Purusottama is the disciple of Jayadharma. Sriman Laksmipati is the disciple of Vyasatirtha, who is the disciple of Purusottama. And Madhavendra Puri is the disciple of Laksmipati."






TEXT 41

laukika-lilate dharma-maryada-raksana
stuti-bhaktye karena tanra carana vandana

SYNONYMS

laukika--popular; lilate--in pastimes; dharma-maryada--etiquette of religious principles; raksana--observing; stuti--prayers; bhaktye--by devotion; karena--He does; tanra--of Advaita Acarya; carana--lotus feet; vandana--worshiping.

TRANSLATION

To maintain the proper etiquette for the principles of religion, Lord Caitanya bows down at the lotus feet of Sri Advaita Acarya with reverential prayers and devotion.






TEXT 42

caitanya-gosanike acarya kare 'prabhu'-jnana
apanake karena tanra 'dasa'-abhimana

SYNONYMS

caitanya-gosanike--unto Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; acarya--Advaita Acarya; kare--does; prabhu-jnana--considering His master; apanake--unto Himself; karena--does; tanra--of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dasa--as a servant; abhimana--conception.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya, however, considers Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu His master, and He thinks of Himself as a servant of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

PURPORT

The Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu of Rupa Gosvami explains the superexcellent quality of devotional service as follows:

brahmanando bhaved esa
cet parardha-guni-krtah
naiti bhakti-sukhambhodheh
paramanu-tulam api
"If multiplied billions of times, the transcendental pleasure derived from impersonal Brahman realization still could not compare to even an atomic portion of the ocean of bhakti, or transcendental service." (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.38)

Similarly, the Bhavartha-dipika states:

tvat-kathamrta-pathodhau
viharanto maha-mudah
kurvanti krtinah kecic
catur-vargam trnopamam
"For those who take pleasure in the transcendental topics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the four progressive realizations of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation, all combined together, cannot compare, any more than a straw, to the happiness derived from hearing about the transcendental activities of the Lord." Those who engage in the transcendental service of the lotus feet of Krsna, being relieved of all material enjoyment, have no attraction to topics of impersonal monism. In the Padma Purana, in connection with the glorification of the month of Karttika, it is stated that devotees pray:

varam deva moksam na moksavadhim va
na canyam vrne 'ham varesad apiha
idam te vapur natha gopala-balam
sada me manasy avirastam kim anyaih

kuveratmajau baddha-murtyaiva yadvat
tvaya mocitau bhakti-bhajau krtau ca
tatha prema-bhaktim svakam me prayaccha
na mokse graho me 'sti damodareha

"Dear Lord, always remembering Your childhood pastimes at Vrndavana is better for us than aspiring to merge into the impersonal Brahman. During Your childhood pastimes You liberated the two sons of Kuvera and made them great devotees of Your Lordship. Similarly, I wish that instead of giving me liberation You may award me such devotion unto You." In the Hayasirsiya-sri-narayana-vyuha-stava, in the chapter called Narayana-stotra, it is stated:

na dharmam kamam artham va
moksam va vara-desvara
prarthaye tava padabje
dasyam evabhikamaye
"My dear Lord, I do not wish to become a man of religion or a master of economic development or sense gratification, nor do I wish for liberation. Although I can have all these from You, the supreme bestower of benedictions, I do not pray for all these. I simply pray that I may always be engaged as a servant of Your lotus feet." Nrsimhadeva offered Prahlada Maharaja all kinds of benedictions, but Prahlada Maharaja did not accept any of them, for he simply wanted to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord. Similarly, a pure devotee wishes to be blessed like Maharaja Prahlada by being thus endowed with devotional service. Devotees also offer their respects to Hanuman, who always remained a servant of Lord Rama. The great devotee Hanuman prayed:

bhava-bandha-cchide tasyai
sprhayami na muktaye
bhavan prabhur aham dasa
iti yatra vilupyate
"I do not wish to take liberation or to merge in the Brahman effulgence, where the conception of being a servant of the Lord is completely lost." Similarly, in the Narada-pancaratra it is stated:

dharmartha-kama-moksesu
neccha mama kadacana
tvat-pada-pankajasyadho
jivitam diyatam mama
"I do not want any one of the four desirable stations. I simply want to engage as a servant of the lotus feet of the Lord." King Kulasekhara, in his very famous book Mukunda-mala-stotra, prays:

naham vande tava caranayor dvandvam advandva-hetoh
kumbhi-pakam gurum api hare narakam napanetum
ramya-rama-mrdu-tanu-lata-nandane nabhirantum
bhave bhave hrdaya-bhavane bhavayeyam bhavantam
"My Lord, I do not worship You to be liberated from this material entanglement, nor do I wish to save myself from the hellish condition of material existence, nor do I ever pray for a beautiful wife to enjoy in a nice garden. I wish only that I may always be in full ecstasy with the pleasure of serving Your Lordship." (M.m.s. 4) In Srimad-Bhagavatam also there are many instances in the Third and Fourth cantos in which devotees pray to the Lord simply to be engaged in His service, and nothing else (Bhag. 3.4.15, 3.25.34, 3.25.36, 4.8.22, 4.9.10 and 4.20.24).






TEXT 43

sei abhimana-sukhe apana pasare
'krsna-dasa' hao----jive upadesa kare

SYNONYMS

sei--that; abhimana-sukhe--in the happiness of that conception; apana--Himself; pasare--He forgets; krsna-dasa hao--You are servants of Lord Krsna; jive--the living beings; upadesa kare--He instructs.

TRANSLATION

He forgets Himself in the joy of that conception and teaches all living entities, "You are servants of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu."

PURPORT

The transcendental devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so ecstatic that even the Lord Himself plays the part of a devotee. Forgetting Himself to be the Supreme, He personally teaches the whole world how to render service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead.






TEXT 44

krsna-dasa-abhimane ye ananda-sindhu
koti-brahma-sukha nahe tara eka bindu

SYNONYMS

krsna-dasa-abhimane--under this impression of being a servant of Krsna; ye--that; ananda-sindhu--ocean of transcendental bliss; koti-brahma-sukha--ten million times the transcendental bliss of becoming one with the Absolute; nahe--not; tara--of the ocean of transcendental bliss; eka--one; bindu--drop.

TRANSLATION

The conception of servitude to Sri Krsna generates such an ocean of joy in the soul that even the joy of oneness with the Absolute, if multiplied ten million times, could not compare to a drop of it.






TEXT 45

muni ye caitanya-dasa ara nityananda
dasa-bhava-sama nahe anyatra ananda

SYNONYMS

muni--I; ye--that; caitanya-dasa--servant of Lord Caitanya; ara--and; nityananda--of Lord Nityananda; dasa-bhava--the emotion of being a servant; sama--equal to; nahe--not; anyatra--anywhere else; ananda--transcendental bliss.

TRANSLATION

He says, "Nityananda and I are servants of Lord Caitanya." Nowhere else is there such joy as that which is tasted in this emotion of servitude.






TEXT 46

parama-preyasi laksmi hrdaye vasati
tenho dasya-sukha mage kariya minati

SYNONYMS

parama-preyasi--the most beloved; laksmi--the goddess of fortune; hrdaye--on the chest; vasati--residence; tenho--she; dasya-sukha--the happiness of being a maidservant; mage--begs; kariya--offering; minati--prayers.

TRANSLATION

The most beloved goddess of fortune resides on the chest of Sri Krsna, yet she too, earnestly praying, begs for the joy of service at His feet.






TEXT 47

dasya-bhave anandita parisada-gana
vidhi, bhava, narada ara suka, sanatana

SYNONYMS

dasya-bhave--in the conception of being a servant; anandita--very pleased; parisada-gana--all the associates; vidhi--Lord Brahma; bhava--Lord Siva; narada--the great sage Narada; ara--and; suka--Sukadeva Gosvami; sanatana--and Sanatana.

TRANSLATION

All the associates of Lord Krsna, such as Brahma, Siva, Narada, Suka and Sanatana, are very much pleased in the sentiment of servitude.






TEXT 48

nityananda avadhuta sabate agala
caitanyera dasya-preme ha-ila pagala

SYNONYMS

nityananda avadhuta--the mendicant Lord Nityananda; sabate--among all; agala--foremost; caitanyera dasya-preme--in the emotional ecstatic love of being a servant of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; ha-ila pagala--became mad.

TRANSLATION

Sri Nityananda, the wandering mendicant, is the foremost of all the associates of Lord Caitanya. He became mad in the ecstasy of service to Lord Caitanya.






TEXTS 49-50

srivasa, haridasa, ramadasa, gadadhara
murari, mukunda, candrasekhara, vakresvara

e-saba pandita-loka parama-mahattva
caitanyera dasye sabaya karaye unmatta

SYNONYMS

srivasa--Srivasa Thakura; haridasa--Haridasa Thakura; ramadasa--Ramadasa; gadadhara--Gadadhara; murari--Murari; mukunda--Mukunda; candrasekhara--Candrasekhara; vakresvara--Vakresvara; e-saba--all of them; pandita-loka--very learned scholars; parama-mahattva--very much glorified; caitanyera--of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dasye--the servitude; sabaya--all of them; karaye unmatta--makes mad.

TRANSLATION

Srivasa, Haridasa, Ramadasa, Gadadhara, Murari, Mukunda, Candrasekhara and Vakresvara are all glorious and are all learned scholars, but the sentiment of servitude to Lord Caitanya makes them mad in ecstasy.






TEXT 51

ei mata gaya, nace, kare attahasa
loke upadese,----'hao caitanyera dasa'

SYNONYMS

ei mata--in this way; gaya--chant; nace--dance; kare--do; atta-hasa--laughing like madmen; loke--unto the people in general; upadese--instruct; hao--just become; caitanyera dasa--servants of Sri Caitanya.

TRANSLATION

Thus they dance, sing and laugh like madmen, and they instruct everyone, "Just be loving servants of Lord Caitanya."






TEXT 52

caitanya-gosani more kare guru jnana
tathapiha mora haya dasa-abhimana

SYNONYMS

caitanya-gosani--Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; more--unto Me; kare--does; guru-jnana--consideration as a spiritual master; tathapiha--still; mora--My; haya--there is; dasa-abhimana--the conception of being His servant.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya thinks, "Lord Caitanya considers Me His spiritual master, yet I feel Myself to be only His servant."






TEXT 53

krsna-premera ei eka apurva prabhava
guru-sama-laghuke karaya dasya-bhava

SYNONYMS

krsna-premera--of love of Krsna; ei--this; eka--one; apurva prabhava--unprecedented influence; guru--to those on the level of the spiritual master; sama--equal level; laghuke--unto the less important; karaya--makes; dasya-bhava--the conception of being a servant.

TRANSLATION

Love for Krsna has this one unique effect: it imbues superiors, equals and inferiors with the spirit of service to Lord Krsna.

PURPORT

There are two kinds of devotional service: the way of pancaratrika regulative principles and the way of bhagavata transcendental loving service. The love of Godhead of those engaged in pancaratrika regulative principles depends more or less on the opulent and reverential platform, but the worship of Radha and Krsna is purely on the platform of transcendental love. Even persons who play as the superiors of Krsna also take the chance to offer transcendental loving service to the Lord. The service attitude of the devotees who play the parts of superiors of the Lord is very difficult to understand, but can be very plainly understood in connection with the superexcellence of their particular service to Lord Krsna. A vivid example is the service of mother Yasoda to Krsna, which is distinct. In the feature of Narayana, the Lord can accept services only from His associates who play parts in which they are equal to or less than Him, but in the feature of Lord Krsna He accepts service very plainly from His fathers, teachers and other elders who are His superiors, as well as from His equals and His subordinates. This is very wonderful.






TEXT 54

ihara pramana suna----sastrera vyakhyana
mahad-anubhava yate sudrdha pramana

SYNONYMS

ihara--of this; pramana--evidence; suna--please hear; sastrera vyakhyana--the description in the revealed scriptures; mahat-anubhava--the conception of great souls; yate--by which; su-drdha--strong; pramana--evidence.

TRANSLATION

For evidence, please listen to the examples described in the revealed scriptures, which are also corroborated by the realization of great souls.






TEXTS 55-56

anyera ka katha, vraje nanda mahasaya
tara sama 'guru' krsnera ara keha naya

suddha-vatsalye isvara-jnana nahi tara
tahakei preme karaya dasya-anukara

SYNONYMS

anyera--of others; ka--what; katha--to speak; vraje--in Vrndavana; nanda mahasaya--Nanda Maharaja; tara sama--like him; guru--a superior; krsnera--of Lord Krsna; ara--another; keha--anyone; naya--not; suddha-vatsalye--in transcendental paternal love; isvara-jnana--conception of the Supreme Lord; nahi--not; tara--his; tahakei--unto him; preme--ecstatic love; karaya--makes; dasya-anukara--the conception of being a servant.

TRANSLATION

Although no one is a more respected elder for Krsna than Nanda Maharaja in Vraja, who in transcendental paternal love has no knowledge that his son is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, still ecstatic love makes him, what to speak of others, feel himself to be a servant of Lord Krsna.






TEXT 57

tenho rati-mati mage krsnera carane
tahara sri-mukha-vani tahate pramane

SYNONYMS

tenho--he also; rati-mati--affection and attraction; mage--begs; krsnera carane--unto the lotus feet of Krsna; tahara--his; sri-mukha-vani--words from his mouth; tahate--in that; pramane--evidence.

TRANSLATION

He too prays for attachment and devotion to the lotus feet of Lord Krsna, as the words from his own mouth give evidence.






TEXTS 58-59

suna uddhava, satya, krsna----amara tanaya
tenho isvara----hena yadi tomara mane laya

tathapi tanhate rahu mora mano-vrtti
tomara isvara-krsne hauka mora mati

SYNONYMS

suna uddhava--my dear Uddhava, please hear me; satya--the truth; krsna--Lord Krsna; amara tanaya--my son; tenho--He; isvara--the Supreme Personality of Godhead; hena--thus; yadi--if; tomara--your; mane--the mind; laya--takes; tathapi--still; tanhate--unto Him; rahu--let there be; mora--my; manah-vrtti--mental functions; tomara--your; isvara-krsne--to Krsna, the Supreme Lord; hauka--let there be; mora--my; mati--attention.

TRANSLATION

"My dear Uddhava, please hear me. In truth Krsna is my son, but even if you think that He is God, I would still bear toward Him my own feelings for my son. May my mind be attached to your Lord Krsna."






TEXT 60

manaso vrttayo nah syuh
krsna-padambujasrayah
vaco 'bhidhayinir namnam
kayas tat-prahvanadisu

SYNONYMS

manasah--of the mind; vrttayah--activities (thinking, feeling and willing); nah--of us; syuh--let there be; krsna--of Lord Krsna; pada-ambuja--the lotus feet; asrayah--those sheltered by; vacah--the words; abhidhayinih--speaking; namnam--of His holy names; kayah--the body; tat--to Him; prahvana-adisu--bowing down to Him, etc.

TRANSLATION

"May our minds be attached to the lotus feet of your Lord Krsna, may our tongues chant His holy names, and may our bodies lie prostrate before Him."






TEXT 61

karmabhir bhramyamananam
yatra kvapisvarecchaya
mangalacaritair danai
ratir nah krsna isvare

SYNONYMS

karmabhih--by the activities; bhramyamananam--of those wandering within the material universe; yatra--wherever; kva api--anywhere; isvara-icchaya--by the supreme will of the Personality of Godhead; mangala-acaritaih--by auspicious activities; danaih--like charity and philanthropy; ratih--the attraction; nah--our; krsne--in Krsna; isvare--the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

"Wherever we wander in the material universe under the influence of karma by the will of the Lord, may our auspicious activities cause our attraction to Lord Krsna to increase."

PURPORT

These verses from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.47.66-67) were spoken by the denizens of Vrndavana, headed by Maharaja Nanda and his associates, to Uddhava, who had come from Mathura.






TEXT 62

sridamadi vraje yata sakhara nicaya
aisvarya-jnana-hina, kevala-sakhya-maya

SYNONYMS

sridama-adi--Krsna's friends, headed by Sridama; vraje--in Vrndavana; yata--all; sakhara--of the friends; nicaya--the group; aisvarya--of opulence; jnana--knowledge; hina--without; kevala--purely; sakhya-maya--fraternal affection.

TRANSLATION

Lord Krsna's friends in Vrndavana, headed by Sridama, have pure fraternal affection for Lord Krsna and have no idea of His opulences.






TEXT 63

krsna-sange yuddha kare, skandhe arohana
tara dasya-bhave kare carana-sevana

SYNONYMS

krsna-sange--with Krsna; yuddha kare--fight; skandhe--on His shoulders; arohana--getting up; tara--they; dasya-bhave--in the conception of being Lord Krsna's servants; kare--do; carana-sevana--worship the lotus feet.

TRANSLATION

Although they fight with Him and climb upon His shoulders, they worship His lotus feet in a spirit of servitude.






TEXT 64

pada-samvahanam cakruh
kecit tasya mahatmanah
apare hata-papmano
vyajanaih samavijayan

SYNONYMS

pada-samvahanam--massaging the feet; cakruh--performed; kecit--some of them; tasya--of Lord Krsna; maha-atmanah--of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; apare--others; hata--destroyed; papmanah--whose resultant actions of sinful life; vyajanaih--with hand-held fans; samavijayan--fanned very pleasingly.

TRANSLATION

"Some of the friends of Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, massaged His feet, and others whose sinful reactions had been destroyed fanned Him with hand-held fans."

PURPORT

This verse, quoted from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.15.17), describes how Lord Krsna and Lord Balarama were playing with the cowherd boys after killing Dhenukasura in Talavana.






TEXTS 65-66

krsnera preyasi vraje yata gopi-gana
yanra pada-dhuli kare uddhava prarthana

yan-sabara upare krsnera priya nahi ana
tanhara apanake kare dasi-abhimana

SYNONYMS

krsnera--of Lord Krsna; preyasi--the beloved girls; vraje--in Vrndavana; yata--all; gopi-gana--the gopis; yanra--of whom; pada-dhuli--the dust of the feet; kare--does; uddhava--of the name Uddhava; prarthana--desiring; yan-sabara--all of them; upare--beyond; krsnera--of Lord Krsna; priya--dear; nahi--there is not; ana--anyone else; tanhara--all of them; apanake--to themselves; kare--do; dasi-abhimana--the conception of being maidservants.

TRANSLATION

Even the beloved girlfriends of Lord Krsna in Vrndavana, the gopis, the dust of whose feet was desired by Sri Uddhava and beyond whom no one is more dear to Krsna, regard themselves as Krsna's maidservants.






TEXT 67

vraja-janarti-han vira yositam
nija-jana-smaya-dhvamsana-smita
bhaja sakhe bhavat-kinkarih sma no
jala-ruhananam caru darsaya

SYNONYMS

vraja-jana-arti-han--O one who diminishes all the painful conditions of the inhabitants of Vrndavana; vira--O hero; yositam--of women; nija--personal; jana--of the associates; smaya--the pride; dhvamsana--destroying; smita--whose smile; bhaja--worship; sakhe--O dear friend; bhavat-kinkarih--Your servants; sma--certainly; nah--unto us; jala-ruha-ananam--a face exactly like a lotus flower; caru--attractive; darsaya--please show.

TRANSLATION

"O Lord, remover of the afflictions of the inhabitants of Vrndavana! O hero of all women! O Lord who destroy the pride of Your devotees by Your sweet, gentle smile! O friend! We are Your maidservants. Please fulfill our desires and show us Your attractive lotus face."

PURPORT

This verse in connection with the rasa dance of Krsna with the gopis is quoted from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.31.6). When Krsna disappeared from His companions in the course of dancing, the gopis sang like this in separation from Krsna.






TEXT 68

api bata madhu-puryam arya-putro 'dhunaste
smarati sa pitr-gehan saumya bandhums ca gopan
kvacid api sa katham nah kinkarinam grnite
bhujam aguru-sugandham murdhny adhasyat kada nu

SYNONYMS

api--certainly; bata--regrettable; madhu-puryam--in the city of Mathura; arya-putrah--the son of Nanda Maharaja; adhuna--now; aste--resides; smarati--remembers; sah--He; pitr-gehan--the household affairs of His father; saumya--O great soul (Uddhava); bandhun--His many friends; ca--and; gopan--the cowherd boys; kvacit--sometimes; api--or; sah--He; katham--talks; nah--of us; kinkarinam--of the maidservants; grnite--relates; bhujam--hand; aguru-su-gandham--having the fragrance of aguru; murdhni--on the head; adhasyat--will keep; kada--when; nu--may be.

TRANSLATION

"O Uddhava! It is indeed regrettable that Krsna resides in Mathura. Does He remember His father's household affairs and His friends, the cowherd boys? O great soul! Does He ever talk about us, His maidservants? When will He lay on our heads His aguru-scented hand?"

PURPORT

This verse appears in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.47.21) in the section known as the Bhramara-gita. When Uddhava came to Vrndavana, Srimati Radharani, in complete separation from Krsna, sang like this.






TEXTS 69-70

tan-sabara katha rahu,----srimati radhika
saba haite sakalamse parama-adhika

tenho yanra dasi haina sevena carana
yanra prema-gune krsna baddha anuksana

SYNONYMS

tan-sabara--of the gopis; katha--talk; rahu--let alone; srimati radhika--Srimati Radharani; saba haite--than all of them; sakala-amse--in every respect; parama-adhika--highly elevated; tenho--She also; yanra--whose; dasi--maidservant; haina--becoming; sevana--worships; carana--the lotus feet; yanra--whose; prema-gune--because of loving attributes; krsna--Lord Krsna; baddha--obliged; anuksana--always.

TRANSLATION

What to speak of the other gopis, even Sri Radhika, who in every respect is the most elevated of them all and who has bound Sri Krsna forever by Her loving attributes, serves His feet as His maidservant.






TEXT 71

ha natha ramana prestha
kvasi kvasi maha-bhuja
dasyas te krpanaya me
sakhe darsaya sannidhim

SYNONYMS

ha--O; natha--My Lord; ramana--O My husband; prestha--O My most dear one; kva asi kva asi--where are You, where are You; maha-bhuja--O mighty-armed one; dasyah--of the maidservant; te--You; krpanayah--very much aggrieved by Your absence; me--to Me; sakhe--O My friend; darsaya--show; sannidhim--nearness to You.

TRANSLATION

"O My Lord, O My husband, O most dearly beloved! O mighty-armed Lord! Where are You? Where are You? O My friend, reveal Yourself to Your maidservant, who is very much aggrieved by Your absence."

PURPORT

This verse is quoted from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.30.39). When the rasa dance was going on in full swing, Krsna left all the gopis and took only Srimati Radharani with Him. At that time all the gopis lamented, and Srimati Radharani, being proud of Her position, requested Krsna to carry Her wherever He liked. Then Krsna immediately disappeared from the scene, and Srimati Radharani began to lament.






TEXT 72

dvarakate rukminy-adi yateka mahisi
tanharao apanake mane krsna-dasi

SYNONYMS

dvarakate--in Dvaraka-dhama; rukmini-adi--headed by Rukmini; yateka--all of them; mahisi--the queens; tanharao--all of them also; apanake--themselves; mane--consider; krsna-dasi--maidservants of Krsna.

TRANSLATION

In Dvaraka-dhama, all the queens, headed by Rukmini, also consider themselves maidservants of Lord Krsna.






TEXT 73

caidyaya marpayitum udyata-karmukesu
rajasv ajeya-bhata-sekharitanghri-renuh
ninye mrgendra iva bhagam ajavi-yuthat
tac chri-niketa-carano 'stu mamarcanaya

SYNONYMS

caidyaya--unto Sisupala; ma--me; arpayitum--to deliver or to give in charity; udyata--upraised; karmukesu--whose bows and arrows; rajasu--among the kings headed by Jarasandha; ajeya--unconquerable; bhata--of the soldiers; sekharita-anghri-renuh--the dust of whose lotus feet is the crown; ninye--forcibly took; mrga-indrah--the lion; iva--like; bhagam--the share; aja--of the goats; avi--and sheep; yuthat--from the midst; tat--that; sri-niketana--of the shelter of the goddess of fortune; caranah--the lotus feet; astu--let there be; mama--my; arcanaya--for worshiping.

TRANSLATION

"When Jarasandha and other kings, bows and arrows upraised, stood ready to deliver me in charity to Sisupala, He forcibly took me from their midst, as a lion takes its share of goats and sheep. The dust of His lotus feet is therefore the crown of unconquerable soldiers. May those lotus feet, which are the shelter of the goddess of fortune, be the object of my worship."

PURPORT

This verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.83.8) was spoken by Queen Rukmini.






TEXT 74

tapas carantim ajnaya
sva-pada-sparsanasaya
sakhyopetyagrahit panim
saham tad-grha-marjani

SYNONYMS

tapah--austerity; carantim--performing; ajnaya--knowing; sva-pada-sparsana--of touching His feet; asaya--with the desire; sakhya--with His friend Arjuna; upetya--coming; agrahit--accepted; panim--my hand; sa--that woman; aham--I; tat--His; grha-marjani--keeper of the home.

TRANSLATION

"Knowing me to be performing austerities with the desire to touch His feet, He came with His friend Arjuna and accepted my hand. Yet I am but a maidservant engaged in sweeping the floor of the house of Sri Krsna."

PURPORT

Like the previous verse, this verse appears in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.83.11) in connection with the meeting of the family ladies of the Kuru and Yadu dynasties at Samanta-pancaka. At the time of that meeting, the queen of Krsna named Kalindi spoke to Draupadi in this way.






TEXT 75

atmaramasya tasyema
vayam vai grha-dasikah
sarva-sanga-nivrttyaddha
tapasa ca babhuvima

SYNONYMS

atmaramasya--of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is satisfied in Himself; tasya--His; imah--all; vayam--we; vai--certainly; grha-dasikah--the maidservants of the home; sarva--all; sanga--association; nivrttya--fully bereft of; addha--directly; tapasa--on account of austerity; ca--also; babhuvima--we have become.

TRANSLATION

"Through austerity and through renunciation of all attachments, we have become maidservants in the home of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is satisfied in Himself."

PURPORT

During the same incident, this verse, quoted from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.83.39), was spoken to Draupadi by a queen of Krsna's named Laksmana.






TEXT 76

anera ki katha, baladeva mahasaya
yanra bhava----suddha-sakhya-vatsalyadi-maya

SYNONYMS

anera--of others; ki katha--what to speak; baladeva--Lord Baladeva; mahasaya--the Supreme Personality; yanra--His; bhava--emotion; suddha-sakhya--pure friendship; vatsalya-adi-maya--with a touch of paternal love.

TRANSLATION

What to speak of others, even Lord Baladeva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is full of emotions like pure friendship and paternal love.

PURPORT

Although Lord Baladeva appeared before the birth of Lord Krsna and is therefore Krsna's worshipable elder brother, He used to act as Krsna's eternal servitor. In the spiritual sky all the Vaikuntha planets are predominated by the quadruple expansions of Krsna known as the catur-vyuha. They are direct expansions from Baladeva. It is the singularity of the Supreme Lord that everyone in the spiritual sky thinks himself a servitor of the Lord. According to social convention one may be superior to Krsna, but factually everyone engages in His service. Therefore in the spiritual sky or the material sky, in all the different planets, no one is able to supersede Lord Krsna or demand service from Him. On the contrary, everyone engages in the service of Lord Krsna. As such, the more a person engages in the service of the Lord, the more he is important; and, conversely, the more one is bereft of the transcendental service of Krsna, the more he invites the bad fortune of material contamination. In the material world, although materialists want to become one with God or compete with God, everyone directly or indirectly engages in the service of the Lord. The more one is forgetful of the service of Krsna, the more he is considered to be dying. Therefore, when one develops pure Krsna consciousness, he immediately develops his eternal servitorship to Krsna.






TEXT 77

tenho apanake karena dasa-bhavana
krsna-dasa-bhava vinu ache kona jana

SYNONYMS

tenho--He also; apanake--Himself; karena--does; dasa-bhavana--considering a servant; krsna-dasa-bhava--the conception of being a servant of Krsna; vinu--without; ache--is; kona--what; jana--person.

TRANSLATION

He also considers Himself a servant of Lord Krsna. Indeed, who is there who does not have this conception of being a servant of Lord Krsna?






TEXT 78

sahasra-vadane yenho sesa-sankarsana
dasa deha dhari' kare krsnera sevana

SYNONYMS

sahasra-vadane--with thousands of mouths; yenho--one who; sesa-sankarsana--Lord Sesa, the incarnation of Sankarsana; dasa--ten; deha--bodies; dhari'--accepting; kare--does; krsnera--of Lord Krsna; sevana--service.

TRANSLATION

He who is Sesa, Sankarsana, with His thousands of mouths, serves Sri Krsna by assuming ten forms.






TEXT 79

ananta brahmande rudra----sadasivera amsa
gunavatara tenho, sarva-deva-avatamsa

SYNONYMS

ananta--unlimited; brahmande--in the universes; rudra--Lord Siva; sadasivera amsa--part and parcel of Sadasiva; guna-avatara--an incarnation of a quality; tenho--he also; sarva-deva-avatamsa--the ornament of all the demigods.

TRANSLATION

Rudra, who is an expansion of Sadasiva and who appears in unlimited universes, is also a gunavatara [qualitative incarnation] and is the ornament of all the demigods in the endless universes.

PURPORT

There are eleven expansions of Rudra, or Lord Siva. They are as follows: Ajaikapat, Ahibradhna, Virupaksa, Raivata, Hara, Bahurupa, Devasrestha Tryambaka, Savitra, Jayanta, Pinaki and Aparajita. Besides these expansions there are eight forms of Rudra called earth, water, fire, air, sky, the sun, the moon and soma-yaji. Generally all these Rudras have five faces, three eyes and ten arms. Sometimes it is found that Rudra is compared to Brahma and considered a living entity. But when Rudra is explained to be a partial expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he is compared to Sesa. Lord Siva is therefore simultaneously an expansion of Lord Visnu and, in his capacity for annihilating the creation, one of the living entities. As an expansion of Lord Visnu he is called Hara, and he is transcendental to the material qualities, but when he is in touch with tamo-guna he appears contaminated by the material modes of nature. This is explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam and the Brahma-samhita. In Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto, it is stated that Lord Rudra is always associated with the material nature when she is in the neutral, unmanifested stage, but when the modes of material nature are agitated he associates with material nature from a distance. In the Brahma-samhita the relationship between Visnu and Lord Siva is compared to that of milk and yogurt. Milk is converted into yogurt by certain additives, but although milk and yogurt have the same ingredients, they have different functions. Similarly, Lord Siva is an expansion of Lord Visnu, yet because of his taking part in the annihilation of the cosmic manifestation, he is considered to be changed, like milk converted into yogurt. In the Puranas it is found that Durga appears sometimes from the heads of Brahma and sometimes from the heads of Visnu. The annihilator, Rudra, is born from Sankarsana and the ultimate fire to burn the whole creation. In the Vayu Purana there is a description of Sadasiva in one of the Vaikuntha planets. That Sadasiva is a direct expansion of Lord Krsna's form for pastimes. It is said that Sadasiva (Lord Sambhu) is an expansion from the Sadasiva in the Vaikuntha planets (Lord Visnu) and that his consort, Mahamaya, is an expansion of Ramadevi, or Laksmi. Mahamaya is the origin or birthplace of material nature.






TEXT 80

tenho karena krsnera dasya-pratyasa
nirantara kahe siva, 'muni krsna-dasa'

SYNONYMS

tenho--he; karena--does; krsnera--of Lord Krsna; dasya-pratyasa--expectation of being a servant; nirantara--constantly; kahe--says; siva--Lord Siva; muni--I; krsna-dasa--a servant of Krsna.

TRANSLATION

He also desires only to be a servant of Lord Krsna. Sri Sadasiva always says, "I am a servant of Lord Krsna."






TEXT 81

krsna-preme unmatta, vihvala digambara
krsna-guna-lila gaya, nace nirantara

SYNONYMS

krsna-preme--in ecstatic love of Krsna; unmatta--almost mad; vihvala--overwhelmed; digambara--without any dress; krsna--of Lord Krsna; guna--attributes; lila--pastimes; gaya--chants; nace--dances; nirantara--constantly.

TRANSLATION

Intoxicated by ecstatic love for Lord Krsna, he becomes overwhelmed and incessantly dances without clothing and sings about Lord Krsna's qualities and pastimes.






TEXT 82

pita-mata-guru-sakha-bhava kene naya
krsna-premera svabhave dasya-bhava se karaya

SYNONYMS

pita--father; mata--mother; guru--superior teacher; sakha--friend; bhava--the emotion; kene naya--let it be; krsna-premera--of love of Krsna; svabhave--in a natural inclination; dasya bhava--the emotion of becoming a servant; se--that; karaya--does.

TRANSLATION

All the emotions, whether those of father, mother, teacher or friend, are full of sentiments of servitude. That is the nature of love of Krsna.






TEXT 83

eka krsna----sarva-sevya, jagat-isvara
ara yata saba,----tanra sevakanucara

SYNONYMS

eka krsna--one Lord Krsna; sarva-sevya--worthy of being served by all; jagat-isvara--the Lord of the universe; ara yata saba--all others; tanra--His; sevaka-anucara--servants of the servants.

TRANSLATION

Lord Krsna, the one master and the Lord of the universe, is worthy of being served by everyone. Indeed, everyone is but a servant of His servants.






TEXT 84

sei krsna avatirna----caitanya-isvara
ataeva ara saba,----tanhara kinkara

SYNONYMS

sei--that; krsna--Lord Krsna; avatirna--descended; caitanya-isvara--Lord Caitanya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ataeva--therefore; ara--others; saba--all; tanhara kinkara--His servants.

TRANSLATION

That same Lord Krsna has descended as Lord Caitanya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everyone, therefore, is His servant.






TEXT 85

keha mane, keha na mane, saba tanra dasa
ye na mane, tara haya sei pape nasa

SYNONYMS

keha mane--someone accepts; keha na mane--someone does not accept; saba tanra dasa--all His servants; ye na mane--one who does not accept; tara--of him; haya--there is; sei--that; pape--in sinful activity; nasa--annihilation.

TRANSLATION

Some accept Him whereas others do not, yet everyone is His servant. One who does not accept Him, however, will be ruined by his sinful activities.

PURPORT

When a living entity forgets his constitutional position, he prepares himself to be an enjoyer of the material resources. Sometimes he is also misguided by the thought that service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not absolute engagement. In other words, he thinks that there are many other engagements for a living entity besides the service of the Lord. Such a foolish person does not know that in any position he either directly or indirectly engages in activities of service to the Supreme Lord. Actually, if a person does not engage in the service of the Lord, all inauspicious activities encumber him because service to the Supreme Lord, Lord Caitanya, is the constitutional position of the infinitesimal living entities. Because the living entity is infinitesimal, the allurement of material enjoyment attracts him, and he tries to enjoy matter, forgetting his constitutional position. But when his dormant Krsna consciousness is awakened, he no longer engages in the service of matter but engages in the service of the Lord. In other words, when one is forgetful of his constitutional position, he appears in the position of the lord of material nature. Even at that time he remains a servant of the Supreme Lord, but in an unqualified or contaminated state.






TEXT 86

caitanyera dasa muni, caitanyera dasa
caitanyera dasa muni, tanra dasera dasa

SYNONYMS

caitanyera--of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dasa--servant; muni--I; caitanyera dasa--a servant of Lord Caitanya; caitanyera dasa muni--I am a servant of Caitanya Mahaprabhu; tanra dasera dasa--a servant of His servant.

TRANSLATION

"I am a servant of Lord Caitanya, a servant of Lord Caitanya. I am a servant of Lord Caitanya, and a servant of His servants."






TEXT 87

eta bali' nace, gaya, hunkara gambhira
ksaneke vasila acarya haina susthira

SYNONYMS

eta bali'--saying this; nace--dances; gaya--sings; hunkara--loud vibrations; gambhira--deep; ksaneke--in a moment; vasila--sits down; acarya--Advaita Acarya; haina su-sthira--being very patient.

TRANSLATION

Saying this, Advaita Prabhu dances and loudly sings. Then at the next moment He quietly sits down.






TEXT 88

bhakta-abhimana mula sri-balarame
sei bhave anugata tanra amsa-gane

SYNONYMS

bhakta-abhimana--to think oneself a devotee; mula--original; sri-balarame--in Lord Balarama; sei bhave--in that ecstasy; anugata--followers; tanra amsa-gane--all His parts and parcels.

TRANSLATION

The source of the sentiment of servitude is indeed Lord Balarama. The plenary expansions who follow Him are all influenced by that ecstasy.






TEXT 89

tanra avatara eka sri-sankarsana
bhakta bali' abhimana kare sarva-ksana

SYNONYMS

tanra avatara--His incarnation; eka--one; sri-sankarsana--Lord Sankarsana; bhakta bali'--as a devotee; abhimana--conception; kare--does; sarva-ksana--always.

TRANSLATION

Lord Sankarsana, who is one of His incarnations, always considers Himself a devotee.






TEXT 90

tanra avatara ana sri-yuta laksmana
sri-ramera dasya tinho kaila anuksana

SYNONYMS

tanra avatara--His incarnation; ana--another; sri-yuta--with all beauty and opulence; laksmana--Lord Laksmana; sri-ramera--of Ramacandra; dasya--servitude; tinho--He; kaila--did; anuksana--always.

TRANSLATION

Another of His incarnations, Laksmana, who is very beautiful and opulent, always serves Lord Rama.






TEXT 91

sankarsana-avatara karanabdhi-sayi tanhara hrdaye bhakta-bhava anuyayi

SYNONYMS

sankarsana-avatara--an incarnation of Lord Sankarsana; karana-abdhi-sayi--Lord Visnu lying on the Causal Ocean; tanhara--His; hrdaye--in the heart; bhakta-bhava--the emotion of being a devotee; anuyayi--accordingly.

TRANSLATION

The Visnu who lies on the Causal Ocean is an incarnation of Lord Sankarsana, and, accordingly, the emotion of being a devotee is always present in His heart.






TEXT 92

tanhara prakasa-bheda, advaita-acarya
kaya-mano-vakye tanra bhakti sada karya

SYNONYMS

tanhara--His; prakasa-bheda--separate expansion; advaita-acarya--Advaita Acarya; kaya-manah-vakye--by His body, mind and words; tanra--His; bhakti--devotion; sada--always; karya--occupational duty.

TRANSLATION

Advaita Acarya is a separate expansion of Him. He always engages in devotional service with His thoughts, words and actions.






TEXT 93

vakye kahe, 'muni caitanyera anucara'
muni tanra bhakta----mane bhave nirantara

SYNONYMS

vakye--by words; kahe--He says; muni--I am; caitanyera anucara--a follower of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; muni--I; tanra--His; bhakta--devotee; mane--in His mind; bhave--in this condition; nirantara--always.

TRANSLATION

By His words He declares, "I am a servant of Lord Caitanya." Thus with His mind He always thinks, "I am His devotee."






TEXT 94

jala-tulasi diya kare kayate sevana
bhakti pracariya saba tarila bhuvana

SYNONYMS

jala-tulasi--Ganges water and tulasi leaves; diya--offering together; kare--does; kayate--with the body; sevana--worship; bhakti--the cult of devotional service; pracariya--preaching; saba--all; tarila--delivered; bhuvana--the universe.

TRANSLATION

With His body He worshiped the Lord by offering Ganges water and tulasi leaves, and by preaching devotional service He delivered the entire universe.






TEXT 95

prthivi dharena yei sesa-sankarsana
kaya-vyuha kari' karena krsnera sevana

SYNONYMS

prthivi--planets; dharena--holds; yei--that one who; sesa-sankarsana--Lord Sesa Sankarsana; kaya-vyuha kari'--expanding Himself in different bodies; karena--does; krsnera sevana--service to Lord Krsna.

TRANSLATION

Sesa Sankarsana, who holds all the planets on His head, expands Himself in different bodies to render service to Lord Krsna.






TEXT 96

ei saba haya sri-krsnera avatara
nirantara dekhi sabara bhaktira acara

SYNONYMS

ei saba--all of them; haya--are; sri-krsnera avatara--incarnations of Lord Krsna; nirantara--constantly; dekhi--I see; sabara--of all; bhaktira acara--behavior as devotees.

TRANSLATION

These are all incarnations of Lord Krsna, yet we always find that they act as devotees.






TEXT 97

e-sabake sastre kahe 'bhakta-avatara'
'bhakta-avatara'-pada upari sabara

SYNONYMS

e-sabake--all of them; sastre--the scriptures; kahe--say; bhakta-avatara--incarnations as devotees; bhakta-avatara--of such an incarnation as a devotee; pada--the position; upari sabara--above all other positions.

TRANSLATION

The scriptures call them incarnations as devotees [bhakta-avatara]. The position of being such an incarnation is above all others.

PURPORT

The Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in different incarnations, but His appearance in the role of a devotee is more beneficial to the conditioned souls than the other incarnations, with all their opulences. Sometimes a conditioned soul is bewildered when he tries to understand the incarnation of Godhead with full opulence. Lord Krsna appeared and performed many uncommon activities, and some materialists misunderstood Him, but in His appearance as Lord Caitanya He did not show much of His opulences, and therefore fewer conditioned souls were bewildered. Misunderstanding the Lord, many fools consider themselves incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but the result is that after leaving the material body they enter the species of jackals. Persons who cannot understand the real significance of an incarnation must attain such lower species of life as punishment. Conditioned souls who are puffed up by false egoism and who try to become one with the Supreme Lord become Mayavadis.






TEXT 98

eka-matra 'amsi'----krsna, 'amsa'----avatara
amsi amse dekhi jyestha-kanistha-acara

SYNONYMS

eka-matra--only one; amsi--source of all incarnations; krsna--Lord Krsna; amsa--of the part; avatara--incarnations; amsi--is the source of all incarnations; amse--in the incarnation; dekhi--we can see; jyestha--as superior; kanistha--and inferior; acara--behavior.

TRANSLATION

Lord Krsna is the source of all incarnations, and all others are His parts or partial incarnations. We find that the whole and the part behave as superior and inferior.






TEXT 99

jyestha-bhave amsite haya prabhu-jnana
kanistha-bhave apanate bhakta-abhimana

SYNONYMS

jyestha-bhave--in the emotion of being superior; amsite--in the original source of all incarnations; haya--there is; prabhu-jnana--knowledge as master; kanistha-bhave--in an inferior conception; apanate--in Himself; bhakta-abhimana--the conception of being a devotee.

TRANSLATION

The source of all incarnations has the emotions of a superior when He considers Himself the master, and He has the emotions of an inferior when He considers Himself a devotee.

PURPORT

A fraction of a particular thing is called a part, and that from which the fraction is distinguished is called the whole. Therefore the fraction, or part, is included within the whole. The Lord is the whole, and the devotee is the part or fractional part. That is the relationship between the Lord and the devotee. There are also gradations of devotees, who are calculated as greater and lesser. When a devotee is great he is called prabhu, and when he is lesser he is called bhakta, or a devotee. The supreme whole is Krsna, and Baladeva and all Visnu incarnations are His fractions. Lord Krsna is therefore conscious of His superior position, and all Visnu incarnations are conscious of Their positions as devotees.






TEXT 100

krsnera samata haite bada bhakta-pada
atma haite krsnera bhakta haya premaspada

SYNONYMS

krsnera--with Lord Krsna; samata--equality; haite--than this; bada--greater; bhakta-pada--the position of a devotee; atma haite--than His own self; krsnera--of Lord Krsna; bhakta--a devotee; haya--is; prema-aspada--the object of love.

TRANSLATION

The position of being a devotee is higher than that of equality with Lord Krsna, for the devotees are dearer to Lord Krsna than His own self.

PURPORT

The conception of oneness with the Supreme Personality of Godhead is inferior to that of eternal service to the Lord because Lord Krsna is more affectionate to devotees than to His personal self. In Srimad-Bhagavatam (9.4.68) the Lord clearly says:

sadhavo hrdayam mahyam
sadhunam hrdayam tv aham
mad anyat te na jananti
naham tebhyo manag api
"The devotees are My heart, and I am the heart of My devotees. My devotees do not know anyone but Me; similarly, I do not know anyone but My devotees." This is the intimate relationship between the Lord and His devotees.






TEXT 101

atma haite krsna bhakte bada kari' mane
ihate bahuta sastra-vacana pramane

SYNONYMS

atma haite--than His own self; krsna--Lord Krsna; bhakte--His devotee; bada kari' mane--accepts as greater; ihate--in this connection; bahuta--many; sastra-vacana--quotations from revealed scripture; pramane--evidences.

TRANSLATION

Lord Krsna considers His devotees greater than Himself. In this connection the scriptures provide an abundance of evidence.






TEXT 102

na tatha me priya-tama
atma-yonir na sankarah
na ca sankarsano na srir
naivatma ca yatha bhavan

SYNONYMS

na tatha--not so much; me--My; priya-tamah--dearmost; atma-yonih--Lord Brahma; na sankarah--nor Sankara (Lord Siva); na ca--nor; sankarsanah--Lord Sankarsana; na--nor; srih--the goddess of fortune; na--nor; eva--certainly; atma--My self; ca--and; yatha--as; bhavan--you.

TRANSLATION

"O Uddhava! Neither Brahma, nor Sankara, nor Sankarsana, nor Laksmi, nor even My own self is as dear to Me as you."

PURPORT

This text is from Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.14.15).






TEXT 103

krsna-samye nahe tanra madhuryasvadana
bhakta-bhave kare tanra madhurya carvana

SYNONYMS

krsna-samye--on an equal level with Krsna; nahe--not; tanra--His; madhurya-asvadana--relishing the sweetness; bhakta-bhave--as a devotee; kare--does; tanra--His; madhurya carvana--chewing of the sweetness.

TRANSLATION

The sweetness of Lord Krsna is not to be tasted by those who consider themselves equal to Krsna. It is to be tasted only through the sentiment of servitude.






TEXT 104

sastrera siddhanta ei,----vijnera anubhava
mudha-loka nahi jane bhavera vaibhava

SYNONYMS

sastrera--of the revealed scriptures; siddhanta--conclusion; ei--this; vijnera anubhava--realization by experienced devotees; mudha-loka--fools and rascals; nahi jane--do not know; bhavera vaibhava--devotional opulences.

TRANSLATION

This conclusion of the revealed scriptures is also the realization of experienced devotees. Fools and rascals, however, cannot understand the opulences of devotional emotions.

PURPORT

When a person is liberated in the sarupya form of liberation, having a spiritual form exactly like Visnu, it is not possible for him to relish the relationship of Krsna's personal associates in their mellow exchanges. The devotees of Krsna, however, in their loving relationships with Krsna, sometimes forget their own identities; sometimes they think themselves one with Krsna and yet relish still greater transcendental mellow in that way. People in general, because of their foolishness only, try to become masters of everything, forgetting the transcendental mellow of servitorship to the Lord. When a person is actually advanced in spiritual understanding, however, he can accept the transcendental servitorship of the Lord without hesitation.






TEXTS 105-106

bhakta-bhava angikari' balarama, laksmana
advaita, nityananda, sesa, sankarsana

krsnera madhurya-rasamrta kare pana
sei sukhe matta, kichu nahi jane ana

SYNONYMS

bhakta-bhava--the conception of being a devotee; angikari'--accepting; balarama--Lord Balarama; laksmana--Lord Laksmana; advaita--Advaita Acarya; nityananda--Lord Nityananda; sesa--Lord Sesa; sankarsana--Lord Sankarsana; krsnera--of Lord Krsna; madhurya--transcendental bliss; rasa-amrta--the nectar of such a taste; kare pana--they drink; sei sukhe--in such happiness; matta--mad; kichu--anything; nahi--do not; jane--know; ana--else.

TRANSLATION

Baladeva, Laksmana, Advaita Acarya, Lord Nityananda, Lord Sesa and Lord Sankarsana taste the nectarean mellows of the transcendental bliss of Lord Krsna by recognizing Themselves as being His devotees and servants. They are all mad with that happiness, and they know nothing else.






TEXT 107

anyera achuk karya, apane sri-krsna
apana-madhurya-pane ha-ila satrsna

SYNONYMS

anyera--of others; achuk--let be; karya--the business; apane--personally; sri-krsna--Lord Sri Krsna; apana-madhurya--personal sweetness; pane--in drinking; ha-ila--became; sa-trsna--much eager.

TRANSLATION

What to speak of others, even Lord Krsna Himself becomes thirsty to taste His own sweetness.






TEXT 108

sva-madhurya asvadite karena yatana
bhakta-bhava vinu nahe taha asvadana

SYNONYMS

sva-madhurya--the sweetness of Himself; asvadite--to taste; karena yatana--makes endeavors; bhakta-bhava--the emotion of being a devotee; vinu--without; nahe--there is not; taha--that; asvadana--tasting.

TRANSLATION

He tries to taste His own sweetness, but He cannot do so without accepting the emotions of a devotee.

PURPORT

Lord Sri Krsna wanted to relish the transcendental mellow of a devotee, and therefore He accepted the role of a devotee by appearing as Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu.






TEXT 109

bhakta-bhava angikari' haila avatirna
sri-krsna-caitanya-rupe sarva-bhave purna

SYNONYMS

bhakta-bhava--the ecstasy of being a devotee; angikari'--accepting; haila--became; avatirna--incarnated; sri-krsna-caitanya-rupe--in the form of Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya; sarva-bhave purna--complete in every respect.

TRANSLATION

Therefore Lord Krsna accepted the position of a devotee and descended in the form of Lord Caitanya, who is complete in every respect.






TEXT 110

nana-bhakta-bhave karena sva-madhurya pana
purve kariyachi ei siddhanta vyakhyana

SYNONYMS

nana-bhakta-bhave--various emotions of a devotee; karena--does; sva-madhurya pana--drinking the sweetness of Himself; purve--formerly; kariyachi--I discussed; ei--this; siddhanta--conclusion; vyakhyana--the explanation.

TRANSLATION

He tastes His own sweetness through the various emotions of a devotee. I have formerly explained this conclusion.

PURPORT

Lord Caitanya, who is known as Sri Gaurahari, is complete in relishing all the different mellows, namely, neutrality, servitorship, fraternity, parental affection and conjugal love. By accepting the ecstasy of different grades of devotees, He is complete in relishing all the mellows of these relationships.






TEXT 111

avatara-ganera bhakta-bhave adhikara
bhakta-bhava haite adhika sukha nahi ara

SYNONYMS

avatara-ganera--of all the incarnations; bhakta-bhave--in the emotion of a devotee; adhikara--there is the right; bhakta-bhava--the emotion of being a devotee; haite--than; adhika--greater; sukha--happiness; nahi--not; ara--any other.

TRANSLATION

All the incarnations are entitled to the emotions of devotees. There is no higher bliss than this.

PURPORT

All the different incarnations of Lord Visnu have the right to play the roles of servitors of Lord Krsna by descending as devotees. When an incarnation gives up the understanding of His Godhood and plays the part of a servitor, He enjoys a greater transcendental mellow taste than when He plays the part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.






TEXT 112

mula bhakta-avatara sri-sankarsana
bhakta-avatara tanhi advaite ganana

SYNONYMS

mula--original; bhakta--of a devotee; avatara--incarnation; sri-sankarsana--Lord Sri Sankarsana; bhakta-avatara--the incarnation of a devotee; tanhi--as that; advaite--Advaita Acarya; ganana--counting.

TRANSLATION

The original bhakta-avatara is Sankarsana. Sri Advaita is counted among such incarnations.

PURPORT

Although Sri Advaita Prabhu belongs to the Visnu category, He displays servitorship to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu as one of His associates. When Lord Visnu appears as a servitor, He is called an incarnation of a devotee of Lord Krsna. Sri Sankarsana, who is an incarnation of Visnu in the spiritual sky known as the greater Vaikuntha, is the chief of the quadruple incarnations and is the original incarnation of a devotee. Lord Maha-Visnu, who is lying on the Causal Ocean, is another manifestation of Sankarsana. He is the original Personality of Godhead who glances over the material and efficient causes of the cosmic manifestation. Advaita Prabhu is accepted as an incarnation of Maha-Visnu. All the plenary manifestations of Sankarsana are indirect expansions of Lord Krsna. That consideration also makes Advaita Prabhu an eternal servitor of Gaura Krsna. Therefore He is accepted as a devotee incarnation.






TEXT 113

advaita-acarya gosanira mahima apara
yanhara hunkare kaila caitanyavatara

SYNONYMS

advaita-acarya--Advaita Acarya; gosanira--of the Lord; mahima apara--unlimited glories; yanhara--of whom; hunkare--by the vibration; kaila--brought; caitanya-avatara--the incarnation of Lord Caitanya.

TRANSLATION

The glories of Sri Advaita Acarya are boundless, for His sincere vibrations brought about Lord Caitanya's descent upon this earth.






TEXT 114

sankirtana pracariya saba jagat tarila
advaita-prasade loka prema-dhana paila

SYNONYMS

sankirtana pracariya--by preaching the cult of sankirtana; saba--all; jagat--the universe; tarila--delivered; advaita-prasade--by the mercy of Advaita Acarya; loka--all people; prema-dhana paila--received the treasure of loving God.

TRANSLATION

He liberated the universe by preaching sankirtana. Thus the people of the world received the treasure of love of Godhead through the mercy of Sri Advaita.






TEXT 115

advaita-mahima ananta ke pare kahite
sei likhi, yei suni mahajana haite

SYNONYMS

advaita-mahima--the glories of Advaita Acarya; ananta--unlimited; ke--who; pare--is able; kahite--to say; sei--that; likhi--I write; yei--whatever; suni--I hear; mahajana haite--from authority.

TRANSLATION

Who can describe the unlimited glories of Advaita Acarya? I write here as much as I have known from great authorities.






TEXT 116

acarya-carane mora koti namaskara
ithe kichu aparadha na labe amara

SYNONYMS

acarya-carane--at the lotus feet of Advaita Acarya; mora--my; koti namaskara--offering obeisances ten million times; ithe--in this connection; kichu--some; aparadha--offense; na labe--please do not take; amara--my.

TRANSLATION

I offer my obeisances ten million times to the lotus feet of Sri Advaita Acarya. Please do not take offense at this.






TEXT 117

tomara mahima----koti-samudra agadha
tahara iyatta kahi,----e bada aparadha

SYNONYMS

tomara mahima--Your glories; koti-samudra agadha--as unfathomable as the millions of seas and oceans; tahara--of that; iyatta--the measure; kahi--I say; e--this; bada--great; aparadha--offense.

TRANSLATION

Your glories are as fathomless as millions of oceans and seas. Speaking of its measure is a great offense indeed.






TEXT 118

jaya jaya jaya sri-advaita acarya
jaya jaya sri-caitanya, nityananda arya

SYNONYMS

jaya jaya--all glories; jaya--all glories; sri-advaita acarya--to Sri Advaita Acarya; jaya jaya--all glories; sri-caitanya--to Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; nityananda--Lord Nityananda; arya--the superior.

TRANSLATION

All glories, all glories to Sri Advaita Acarya! All glories to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and the superior Lord Nityananda!






TEXT 119

dui sloke kahila advaita-tattva-nirupana
panca-tattvera vicara kichu suna, bhakta-gana

SYNONYMS

dui sloke--in two verses; kahila--described; advaita--Advaita; tattva-nirupana--ascertaining the truth; panca-tattvera--of the five truths; vicara--consideration; kichu--something; suna--please hear; bhakta-gana--O devotees.

TRANSLATION

Thus in two verses I have described the truth concerning Advaita Acarya. Now, O devotees, please hear about the five truths [panca-tattva].






TEXT 120

sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa

SYNONYMS

sri-rupa--Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha--Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; pade--at the lotus feet; yara--whose; asa--expectation; caitanya-caritamrta--the book named Caitanya-caritamrta; kahe--describes; krsna-dasa--Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami.

TRANSLATION

Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha, always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Sixth Chapter, describing the glories of Sri Advaita Acarya.


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