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Lord Caitanya's Childhood Pastimes
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nary child but an incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, they decided that on that very same day, which was very auspicious, they should observe a festival for His name-giving ceremony. In this connection we can particularly see how an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is ascertained by His bodily symptoms, His activities and the prediction of the  śāstras . By factual evidence a person can be accepted as an incarnation of God, not whimsically or by the votes of rascals and fools. There have been many imitation incarnations in Bengal since the appearance of Lord Caitanya, but any impartial devotee or learned man can understand that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was accepted as an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa not on the basis of popular votes but by evidence from the  śāstras  and bona fide scholars. It was not ordinary men who accepted Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In the beginning His identity was ascertained by learned scholars like Nīlāmbara Cakravartī, and later all His activities were confirmed by the six Gosvāmīs, especially Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī and Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, and many other learned scholars, with evidence from the  śāstra . An incarnation of God is such from the very beginning of His life. It is not that by performing meditation one can become an incarnation of God all of a sudden. Such false incarnations are meant for fools and rascals, not sane men.
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সর্বলোকের করিবে ইহঁ ধারণ, পে।ষণ।
‘বিষ্বম্ভর’ নাম ইহার,— এই ত’ কারণ ॥ ১৯ ॥
sarva-lokera karibe ihaṅ dhāraṇa, poṣaṇa ‘viśvambhara’ nāma ihāra,—ei ta’ kāraṇa
SYNONYMS
sarva-lokera —of all people;  karibe —will do;  ihaṅ —this child;  dhāraṇa —protection;  poṣaṇa —maintenance;  viśvambhara —the name Viśvambhara;  nāma —name;  ihāra —His;  ei —this;  ta’ —certainly;  kāraṇa —the reason.
TRANSLATION
“In the future this child will protect and maintain all the world. For this reason He is to be called Viśvambhara.”
PURPORT
The  Caitanya-bhāgavata  also confirms that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, by His birth, has made the whole world peaceful, as in the past Nārāyaṇa protected this earth in His incarnation as Varāha. Because of His protecting and maintaining this world in the present Kali-yuga, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Viśvambhara, which refers to one who feeds the entire world. The movement inaugurated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu when He was present five hundred years ago is again being propagated all over the world, and factually we are seeing its practical results. People are being