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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
does not, therefore, understand this science of transmigration but considers the body to be all in all, his intelligence is not very advanced. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, without neglecting the necessities of the body, imparted spiritual advancement to purify the existential condition of humanity. Therefore if a logician makes his judgment impartially, he will surely find that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the  mahā-vadānyāvatāra , the most magnanimous incarnation. He is even more magnanimous than Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Lord Kṛṣṇa demanded that one surrender unto Him, but He did not distribute love of Godhead as magnanimously as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Therefore Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī offers Lord Caitanya his respectful obeisances with the words  namo mahā-vadānyāya kṛṣṇa-prema-pradāya te kṛṣṇāya kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nāmne gaura-tviṣe namaḥ . Lord Kṛṣṇa simply gave  Bhagavad-gītā , by which one can understand Lord Kṛṣṇa as He is, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is also Kṛṣṇa Himself, gave people love of Kṛṣṇa without discrimination.
TEXT 16
বহু জন্ম করে যদি শ্রবণ, কীর্তন ।
তবু ত’ না পায় কৃষ্ণপদে প্রেমধন ॥ ১৬ ॥
bahu janma kare yadi śravaṇa, kīrtana tabu ta’ nā pāya kṛṣṇa-pade prema-dhana
SYNONYMS
bahu —many;  janma —births;  kare —does;  yadi —if;  śravaṇa —hearing;  kīrtana —chanting;  tabu —still;  ta’ —in spite of;  nā —does not;  pāya —get;  kṛṣṇa-pade —unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa;  prema-dhana —love of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
If one is infested with the ten offenses in the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahāmantra, despite his endeavor to chant the holy name for many births, he will not get the love of Godhead which is the ultimate goal of this chanting.
PURPORT
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Thākura says in this connection that unless one accepts Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, although one goes on chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mantra  for many, many years, there is no possibility of his attaining the platform of devotional service. One must follow strictly the instruction of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu given in the  Śikṣāṣṭaka :
tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā amāninā mānadena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ
“One should chant the holy name of the Lord in a humble state of mind, thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street; one should be more tolerant than a tree,