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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
SYNONYMS
svayam —Himself;  bhagavān —the Supreme Personality of Godhead;  kṛṣṇa —Lord Kṛṣṇa;  viṣṇu —of all-pervading Viṣṇu;  para-tattva —the ultimate truth;  pūrṇa-jñāna —full knowledge;  pūrṇa-ānanda —full bliss;  parama —supreme;  mahattva —greatness.
TRANSLATION
Kṛṣṇa, the original form of the Personality of Godhead, is the summum bonum of the all-pervading Viṣṇu. He is all-perfect knowledge and all-perfect bliss. He is the Supreme Transcendence.
TEXT 9
‘नमःसुत’ वलि’ यांत्रे ভাগবতে গাই । সেই কৃষ্ণ অবতীর্ণ চৈতন্যগোসাঞ্জি ॥ ৯ ॥
‘nanda-suta’ bali’ yāṅre bhāgavate gāi sei kṛṣṇa avatīrṇa caitanya-gosāñi
SYNONYMS
nanda-suta —the son of Nanda Mahārāja;  bali’ —as;  yāṅre —who;  bhāgavate —in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam;  gāi —is sung;  sei —that;  kṛṣṇa —Lord Kṛṣṇa;  avatīrṇa —descended;  caitanya-gosāñi —Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
TRANSLATION
He whom Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes as the son of Nanda Mahārāja has descended to earth as Lord Caitanya.
PURPORT
According to the rules of rhetorical arrangement for efficient composition in literature, a subject should be mentioned before its predicate. The Vedic literature frequently mentions Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān, and therefore these three terms are widely known as the subjects of transcendental understanding. But it is not widely known that what is approached as the impersonal Brahman is the effulgence of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s transcendental body. Nor is it widely known that the Supersoul, or Paramātmā, is only a partial representation of Lord Caitanya, who is identical with Bhagavān Himself. Therefore the descriptions of Brahman as the effulgence of Lord Caitanya, Paramātmā as His partial representation, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa as identical with Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu must be verified by evidence from authoritative Vedic literatures.
The author wants to establish first that the essence of the  Vedas  is  viṣṇu-tattva , the Absolute Truth,  Viṣṇu , the all-pervading Godhead. The  viṣṇu-tattva  has different categories, of which the highest is Lord Kṛṣṇa, the ultimate  viṣṇu-tattva , as confirmed