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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
SYNONYMS
ādya-avatāra —the original incarnation;  mahā-puruṣa —Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu;  bhagavān —the Personality of Godhead;  sarva-avatāra-bīja —the seed of all different kinds of incarnations;  sarva-āśraya-dhāma —the shelter of everything.
TRANSLATION
That Mahā-puruṣa is identical with the Personality of Godhead. He is the original incarnation, the seed of all others, and the shelter of everything.
TEXT 83
আত্মাহবতার: পুরুষ: পরশু
কাল: স্বভাব: সদস্যনন্ত ।
ত্রব্যং বিকারো গুণ ইন্দ্রিয়াণি
বিরাট স্বরাট স্বাস্থ্য চরিত্র ভূম: ॥ ৮০ ॥
ādyo 'vatāraḥ puruṣaḥ parasya kālaḥ svabhāvaḥ sad-asan-manaś ca dravyaṁ vikāro guṇa indriyāṇi virāṭ svarāṭ sthāsnu cariṣṇu bhūmnaḥ
SYNONYMS
ādyaḥ avatāraḥ —original incarnation;  puruṣaḥ —the Lord;  parasya —of the Supreme;  kālaḥ —time;  svabhāvaḥ —nature;  sat-asat —cause and effect;  manaḥ ca —as well as the mind;  dravyaṁ —the five elements;  vikāraḥ —transformation or the false ego;  guṇaḥ —modes of nature;  indriyāṇi —senses;  virāṭ —the universal form;  svarāṭ —complete independence;  sthāsnu —immovable;  cariṣṇu —movable;  bhūmnaḥ —of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
“The puruṣa is the primary incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Time, nature, prakṛti (as cause and effect), the mind, the material elements, false ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form, complete independence and the moving and nonmoving beings appear subsequently as His opulences.”
PURPORT
Describing the incarnations and their symptoms, the  Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta  has stated that when Lord Kṛṣṇa descends to conduct the creative affairs of the material manifestation, He is an  avatāra , or incarnation. The two categories of  avatāras  are empowered devotees and  tad-ekātma-rūpa  (the Lord Himself). An example of