Text 991
The lord's visit to Šri Vrndāvana
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mahāprabhu dekhi’ ‘satya’ kṛṣṇa-daraśana niiāiñāne satya chādi’ ‘asatye satya-bhrama’
SYNONYMS
mahāprabhu dekhi' —by seeing Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  satya —truly;  kṛṣṇa-daraśana —seeing Kṛṣṇa;  nija-ajñāne —by their personal lack of knowledge;  satya chāḍi' —giving up the real truth;  asatye —untruth;  satya-bhrama —mistaking for the truth.
TRANSLATION
When the people saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they actually saw Kṛṣṇa, but because they were following their own imperfect knowledge, they accepted the wrong thing as Kṛṣṇa.
TEXT 99
ভট্টাচাৰ্য তবে কহে প্ৰভুর চরণে । ‘আজ্ঞা দেহ’, যাই’ করি কৃষ্ণ দরশনে ।’  ৯৯ ॥
bhaṭṭācārya tabe kahe prabhura caraṇe ‘ājñā deha’, yāi’ kari kṛṣṇa daraśane!’
SYNONYMS
bhaṭṭācārya —Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya;  tabe —at that time;  kahe —says;  prabhura caraṇe —at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  ājñā deha' —please give permission;  yāi' —going;  kari kṛṣṇa daraśane —I shall see Lord Kṛṣṇa directly.
TRANSLATION
At that time Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya placed a request at the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He said, “Please give me permission to go see Lord Kṛṣṇa directly.”
PURPORT
The puzzled people who visited Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu were actually seeing Lord Kṛṣṇa, but they were mistaken in thinking that Lord Kṛṣṇa had come to Kālīya Lake. They all said that they had seen Kṛṣṇa directly performing His pastimes on the hood of the serpent Kālīya and that the jewels on Kālīya’s hoods were blazing brilliantly. Because they were speculating with their imperfect knowledge, they saw Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as an ordinary human being and a boatman’s light