Ādi-līlā, Chapter 3
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TEXT 49
স্বর্ণবর্ণো হেমাঙ্গো বরাঙ্গচন্দনাঙ্গদী ।
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suvarṇa-varṇo hemāṅgo varāṅgaś candanāṅgadī sannyāsa-kṛc chamaḥ śānto niṣṭhā-śānti-parāyaṇaḥ
SYNONYMS
suvarṇa —of gold;  varṇaḥ —having the color;  hema-aṅgaḥ —whose body was like molten gold;  vara-aṅgaḥ —having a most beautiful body;  candana-aṅgadī —whose body was smeared with sandalwood;  sannyāsa-kṛt —practicing the renounced order of life;  śamaḥ —equipoised;  śāntaḥ —peaceful;  niṣṭhā —devotion;  śānti —and of peace;  parāyaṇaḥ —the highest resort.
TRANSLATION
“In His early pastimes He appears as a householder with a golden complexion. His limbs are beautiful, and His body, smeared with the pulp of sandalwood, seems like molten gold. In His later pastimes He accepts the sannyāsa order, and He is equipoised and peaceful. He is the highest abode of peace and devotion, for He silences the impersonalist nondevotees.”
PURPORT
This is a verse from the  Mahābhārata  ( Dāna-dharma ,  Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma-stotra ). In his commentary on the  Viṣṇu-sahasra-nāma  called the  Nāmārtha-sudhābhidha , Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, commenting upon this verse, asserts that Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the evidence of the  Upaniṣads . He explains that  suvarṇa-varṇaḥ  means a golden complexion. He also quotes the Vedic injunction  yadā paśyaḥ paśyate rukma-varṇaṁ kartāram īśaṁ puruṣaṁ brahma-yonim .  Rukma-varṇaṁ kartāram īśaṁ  refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as having a complexion the color of molten gold.  Puruṣam  means the Supreme Lord, and  brahma-yonim  indicates that He is also the Supreme Brahman. This evidence, too, proves that Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa. Another meaning of the description of the Lord as having a golden hue is that Lord Caitanya’s personality is as fascinating as gold is attractive. Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has explained that the word  varāṅga  means “exquisitely beautiful.”
Lord Caitanya accepted  sannyāsa , leaving aside His householder life, to preach His mission. He has equanimity in different senses. First, He describes the confidential truth of the Personality of Godhead, and second, He satisfies everyone by knowledge and attachment to Kṛṣṇa. He is peaceful because He renounces all topics not related to the service of Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has explained that