মূল ভক্ত-অবতার শ্রীসঙ্কর্ষণ ।
ভক্ত-অবতার তঁহি অদ্বৈতে গণন ॥ ১১২ ॥
mula bhakta-avatara sri-saṅkarsana
bhakta-avatara taṅhi advaite ganana
mula-original; bhakta-of a devotee; avatara-incarnation; sri-saṅkarsana-Lord Sri Saṅkarsana; bhakta-avatara-the incarnation of a devotee; taṅhi-as that; advaite-Advaita Acarya; ganana-counting.
The original bhakta-avatara is Saṅkarsana. Sri Advaita is counted among such incarnations.
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 Saṅkarsana, 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 Saṅkarsana. 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 Saṅkarsana 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.