### CC Adi 9.1

> তং শ্রীমৎকৃষ্ণচৈতন্যদেবং বন্দে জগদ্গুরুম্ ।\
> যস্যানুকম্পয়া শ্বাপি মহাব্ধিং সন্তরেৎ সুখম্ ॥১॥

> taṁ śrīmat-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-\
> devaṁ vande jagad-gurum\
> yasyānukampayā śvāpi\
> mahābdhiṁ santaret sukham

*tam*—unto Him; *śrīmat*—with all opulence; *kṛṣṇa-caitanya-devam*—unto Lord Kṛṣṇa Caitanyadeva; *vande*—I offer obeisances; *jagat-gurum*—spiritual master of the world; *yasya*—whose; *anukampayā*—by the mercy of; *śvā api*—even a dog; *mahā-abdhīm*—great ocean; *santaret*—can swim; *sukham*—without difficulty.

**Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual master of the entire world, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by whose mercy even a dog can swim across a great ocean.**

Sometimes it is to be seen that a dog can swim in the water for a few yards and then come back to the shore. Here, however, it is stated that if a dog is blessed by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, he can swim across an ocean. Similarly, the author of *Caitanya-caritāmṛta,* Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, placing himself in a helpless condition, states that he has no personal power, but by the desire of Lord Caitanya, expressed through the Vaiṣṇavas and Madana-mohana *vigraha,* it is possible for him to cross a transcendental ocean to present *Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta.*