Ādi 5.147

TEXT 147

TEXT

অদ্বৈত-আচার্য-গোসাঞি সাক্ষাৎ ঈশ্বর ।
প্রভু গুরু করি' মানে, তিঁহো ত' কিঙ্কর ॥ ১৪৭ ॥

advaita-acarya-gosani saksat isvara

prabhu guru kari' mane, tiṅho ta' kiṅkara

SYNONYMS

advaita-acarya-of the name Advaita Acarya; gosani-the Lord; saksat isvara-directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prabhu-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; guru kari' mane-accepts Him as His teacher; tiṅho ta' kiṅkara-but He is the servant.

TRANSLATION

Lord Advaita Acarya is directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although Lord Caitanya accepts Him as His preceptor, Advaita Acarya is a servant of the Lord.

PURPORT

Lord Caitanya always offered respects to Advaita Prabhu as He would to His father because Advaita was even older than His father; yet Advaita Prabhu always considered Himself a servant of Lord Caitanya. Sri Advaita Prabhu and Isvara Puri, Lord Caitanya's spiritual master, were both disciples of Madhavendra Puri, who was also the spiritual master of Nityananda Prabhu. Thus Advaita Prabhu, as Lord Caitanya's spiritual uncle, was always to be respected because one should respect one's spiritual master's Godbrothers as one respects one's spiritual master. Because of all these considerations, Sri Advaita Prabhu was superior to Lord Caitanya, yet Advaita Prabhu considered Himself Lord Caitanya's subordinate.

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