Ādi 2.22

TEXT 22

TEXT

সেইত' গোবিন্দ সাক্ষাচ্চৈতন্য গোসাঞি ।
জীব নিস্তারিতে ঐছে দয়ালু আর নাই ॥ ২২ ॥

seita govinda saksac caitanya gosani

jiva nistarite aiche dayalu ara nai

SYNONYMS

seita-that; govinda-Govinda; saksat-personally; caitanya-Lord Caitanya; gosani-Gosani; jiva-the fallen living entities; nistarite-to deliver; aiche-such; dayalu-a merciful Lord; ara-another; nai-there is not.

TRANSLATION

That Govinda personally appears as Caitanya Gosani. No other Lord is as merciful in delivering the fallen souls.

PURPORT

Having described Govinda in terms of His Brahman and Paramatma features, now the author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta advances his argument to prove that Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the identical personality. The same Lord Sri Krsna, in the garb of a devotee of Sri Krsna, descended to this mortal world to reclaim the fallen human beings who had misunderstood the Personality of Godhead even after the explanation of Bhagavad-gita. In Bhagavad-gita the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna directly instructed that the Supreme is a person. Impersonal Brahman is His glowing effulgence, Paramatma is His partial representation, and all men are therefore advised to follow the path of Sri Krsna, leaving aside all mundane "isms." Offenders misunderstood this instruction, however, because of their poor fund of knowledge. Thus by His causeless, unlimited mercy Sri Krsna came again as Sri Caitanya Gosani.

The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta most emphatically stresses that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Sri Krsna Himself. He is not an expansion of the prakasa or vilasa forms of Sri Krsna; He is the svayam-rūpa, Govinda. Apart from the relevant scriptural evidence forwarded by Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, there are innumerable statements regarding Lord Caitanya's being the Supreme Lord Himself. The following examples may be cited:

(1) From the Caitanya Upanisad: gauraḥ sarvatma maha-puruso mahatma maha-yogi tri-gunatitaḥ sattva-rūpo bhaktim loke kasyati. "Lord Gaura, who is the all-pervading Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears as a great saint and powerful mystic who is above the three modes of nature and is the emblem of transcendental activity. He disseminates the cult of devotion throughout the world."

(2) From the Svetasvatara Upanisad:

tam isvaranam paramam mahesvaram
tam devatanam paramam ca daivatam
patim patinam paramam parastad
vidama devam bhuvanesam iḍyam

"O Supreme Lord, You are the Supreme Mahesvara, the worshipable Deity of all the demigods and the Supreme Lord of all lords. You are the controller of all controllers, the Personality of Godhead, the Lord of everything worshipable." (Svet. Up. )

mahan prabhur vai purusaḥ
sattvasyaisa pravartakaḥ
sunirmalam imam praptim
isano jyotir avyayaḥ

"The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Mahaprabhu, who disseminates transcendental enlightenment. Just to be in touch with Him is to be in contact with the indestructible brahmajyoti." (Svet. Up. )

(3) From the Munḍaka Upanisad ():

yada pasyaḥ pasyate rukma-varnam
kartaram isam purusam brahma-yonim

"One who sees that golden-colored Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Lord, the supreme actor, who is the source of the Supreme Brahman, is liberated."

(4) From Srimad-Bhagavatam:

dhyeyam sada paribhava-ghnam abhista-doham
tirthaspadam siva-virinci-nutam saranyam
bhrtyarti-ham pranata-pala-bhavabdhi-potam
vande maha-purusa te caranaravindam

"We offer our respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Him, the Lord, upon whom one should always meditate. He destroys insults to His devotees. He removes the distresses of His devotees and satisfies their desires. He, the abode of all holy places and the shelter of all sages, is worshipable by Lord Siva and Lord Brahma. He is the boat of the demigods for crossing the ocean of birth and death." (Bhag. )

tyaktva sudustyaja-surepsita-rajya-laksmim
dharmistha arya-vacasa yad agad aranyam
maya-mrgam dayitayepsitam anvadhavad
vande maha-purusa te caranaravindam

"We offer our respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of the Lord, upon whom one should always meditate. He left His householder life, leaving aside His eternal consort, whom even the denizens of heaven adore. He went into the forest to deliver the fallen souls, who are put into illusion by material energy." (Bhag. 11.5.34)

Prahlada said:

ittham nr-tiryag-rsi-deva-jhasavatarair
lokan vibhavayasi hamsi jagat-pratipan
dharmam maha-purusa pasi yuganuvrttam
channaḥ kalau yad abhavas tri-yugo 'tha sa tvam

"My Lord, You kill all the enemies of the world in Your multifarious incarnations in the families of men, animals, demigods, rsis, aquatics and so on. Thus You illuminate the worlds with transcendental knowledge. In the Age of Kali, O Mahapurusa, You sometimes appear in a covered incarnation. Therefore You are known as Triyuga [one who appears in only three yugas]." (Bhag. 7.9.38)

(5) From the Krsna-. Punya-ksetre nava-dvipe bhavisyami saci-sutaḥ. "I shall appear in the holy land of Navadvipa as the son of Sacidevi."

(6) From the Vayu . Kalau sahkirtanarambhe bhavisyami saci-sutaḥ. "In the Age of Kali when the sahkirtana movement is inaugurated, I shall descend as the son of Sacidevi."

(7) From the Brahma-:

athavaham dharadhame
bhūtva mad-bhakta-rūpa-dhrk
mayayam ca bhavisyami
kalau sahkirtanagame

"Sometimes I personally appear on the surface of the world in the garb of a devotee. Specifically, I appear as the son of Saci in Kali-yuga to start the sahkirtana movement."

(8) From the Ananta-:

ya eva bhagavan krsno
radhika-prana-vallabhaḥ
srstyadau sa jagan-natho
gaura asin mahesvari

"The Supreme Person, Sri Krsna Himself, who is the life of Sri Radharani, and is the Lord of the universe in creation, maintenance and annihilation, appears as Gaura, O Mahesvari."

[Adi 2.22-1957]

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