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and His first manifestation of energy. Krishna Chaitanya appears in all together: God, Guru, devotee, expansion. As His associate Nityananda, He is a manifestation; as Adwaita, He is an incarnation; as Gadadhar, He is the internal potency; and as Srivas, He is the marginal living entity. Krishna is not thought of alone, but is conceived all at once, as is described by Ramanujacharya: In Suddha Adwaita philosophy energy, expansion, and incarnation are  Oneness in diversity . Everything together is God.
Chaitanya Charitamrita  is thus the post-graduate study of spiritual knowledge. One advances from the  Bhagavad Gita , through  Srimad Bhagwatam , to  Chaitanya Charitamrita . Although all are on the same Absolute level, yet by comparative study,  Chaitanya Charitamrita  is on this higher platform, and every verse is perfectly composed. The process of offering obeisances is to directly offer respects to Chaitanya and Nityananda—these two Personalities are compared to the Sun and the Moon, who dissipate darkness. Both the Sun and the Moon have risen together in this case: Chaitanya is so kind that to dissipate the darkness They both appear together.
Who is Krishna Chaitanya? In the  Upanishads , the Supreme Absolute Truth is described in an impersonal way, but the Personal view is also given in the  Isha Upanishad , at the end, after a description of the All-pervading: “My dear Lord, You are hidden by the Cover of  Brahmajyoti . Let me penetrate that  Brahmajyoti  to approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” Those who have no such power stop at the effulgence; but at the end of the  Upanishad  there is a hymn to the  Personality  of Godhead. The impersonal  Brahman  is described there. That  Brahman  is the glaring effulgence of the body of Chaitanya. The  Paramatma  is the partial representation of Chaitanya. He is that Supreme Personality of Godhead, full with six opulences: wealth, fame, strength, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation. You should know that He is Krishna, and nothing is equal to, or greater than, Him. There is no superior conception. He is the Supreme Person.
There is a nice verse by Rupa Goswami, who, as a confidential devotee, was taught for more than ten days continuously by Lord Chaitanya. He has written about Lord Chaitanya: “There were many incarnations of Krishna, but He excels all others. He is giving something that was never given by an incarnation before, not even by Krishna Himself.”
Chaitanya begins from the surrendering point, and He is completely spiritual. He begins at the end of material existence, when one gives up all material attachment. In the  Bhagavad Gita , Krishna began by distinguishing the soul from matter, and ended at the point of the soul surrendered in devo-