caitya guru, Krishna in heart

Thus Ramananda Roy and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu talked together for the whole night, sometimes dancing, sometimes singing, sometimes crying. In this way the night was passed, and at dawn Ramananda Roy went to his own place, and again in the evening he came back to see Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. The next day, after talking and discussing Krishna for some time, Ramananda Roy fell at the feet of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and began to submit: "My dear Lord, You are so kind upon me that You have spoken to me about the science of Krishna, about the science of Radharani and Their loving affairs, and Their affairs of the Rasa Dance, and Their Pastimes-I never thought that I should be able to speak on this subject matter. So have You taught me, as You formerly taught Brahma the Vedas."    (More...)

This is the system of instruction from the Supersoul. Externally He is not to be seen. Yet, internally, He speaks to the devotee, and that is confirmed in the Bhagavad Gita [10.10]: to anyone who is sincerely engaged in the service of the Lord, the Lord from within dictates, and He acts in such a nice way that he ultimately achieves the Supreme goal of life. When Brahma was born there was nobody else to instruct him. Therefore, in the Vedic literature, we find that the Supreme Lord Himself instructed Brahma about the Vedic knowledge through his heart. The same thing is also confirmed in the Srimad Bhagwatam, Second Canto, 4th Chapter [22], by Sukadeva Goswami: the Gayatri Mantra was first of all instructed by the Supreme in the heart of Brahma. Similarly, Sukadeva Goswami prayed to the Lord to also help him in speaking Srimad Bhagwatam before Maharaj Parikshit.    (More...)

The first verse of the First Canto of the Srimad Bhagwatam describes the Supreme Absolute Truth, Who instructed Brahma through the heart. It is stated there by Vyasadeva, the author of Srimad Bhagwatam: "Let me offer my respectful obeisances to Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Who is the Cause of cosmic manifestation, its maintenance, and its dissolution." If we scrutinizingly try to understand the Supreme Truth, we can understand that He knows everything directly and indirectly. He is the only Supreme Personality fully independent, and it is He only, alone, Who instructed Brahma as the Supersoul from within. Even the greatest learned scholar becomes bewildered about understanding the Supreme Truth, because the whole perceivable cosmic manifestation is situated in Him. Although this material manifestation is a byproduct of fire, water, and earth, still it appears just like the truth. But it is in Him only that the spiritual manifestation, the material manifestation, and the manifestation of the living entities-everything-rests. Therefore He is the Supreme Truth.    (More...)