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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
SYNONYMS
seita —that;  govinda —Govinda;  sākṣāt —personally;  caitanya —Lord Caitanya;  gosāñi —Gosāñi;  jīva —the fallen living entities;  nistārite —to deliver;  aiche —such;  dayālu —a merciful Lord;  āra —another;  nāi —there is not.
TRANSLATION
That Govinda personally appears as Caitanya Gosāñi. No other Lord is as merciful in delivering the fallen souls.
PURPORT
Having described Govinda in terms of His Brahman and Paramātmā features, now the author of  Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta  advances his argument to prove that Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the identical personality. The same Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, in the garb of a devotee of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, descended to this mortal world to reclaim the fallen human beings who had misunderstood the Personality of Godhead even after the explanation of  Bhagavad-gītā . In  Bhagavad-gītā  the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa directly instructed that the Supreme is a person. Impersonal Brahman is His glowing effulgence, Paramātmā is His partial representation, and all men are therefore advised to follow the path of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, leaving aside all mundane “isms.” Offenders misunderstood this instruction, however, because of their poor fund of knowledge. Thus by His causeless, unlimited mercy Śrī Kṛṣṇa came again as Śrī Caitanya Gosāñi.
The author of  Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta  most emphatically stresses that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is not an expansion of the  prakāśa  or  vilāsa  forms of Śrī Kṛṣṇa; He is the  svayam-rūpa , Govinda. Apart from the relevant scriptural evidence forwarded by Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, there are innumerable statements regarding Lord Caitanya’s being the Supreme Lord Himself. The following examples may be cited:
(1) From the  Caitanya Upaniṣad :  gauraḥ sarvātmā mahā-puruṣo mahātmā mahā-yogī tri-guṇātītaḥ sattva-rūpo bhaktiṁ loke kāśyati . “Lord Gaura, who is the all-pervading Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears as a great saint and powerful mystic who is above the three modes of nature and is the emblem of transcendental activity. He disseminates the cult of devotion throughout the world.”
(2) From the  Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad :
tam īśvarāṇāṁ paramaṁ maheśvaraṁ taṁ devatānāṁ paramaṁ ca daivatam patiṁ patīnāṁ paramaṁ parastād vidāma devaṁ bhuvaneśam īḍyam
“O Supreme Lord, You are the Supreme Maheśvara, the worshipable Deity of all the demigods and the Supreme Lord of all lords. You are the controller of all controllers, the Personality of Godhead, the Lord of everything worshipable.” ( Śvet. Up.  6.7)