Lord Chaitanya, The Original Personality of Godhead
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should give up all other engagements and should engage in the devotional service of the Lord. But after His disappearance, persons with less intelligence misunderstood Him. They became contaminated with the  Mayavadi  philosophy, which produced so many mental speculators that people became misled about the actual position of the Absolute Truth and the living entity. Lord Chaitanya, therefore, although the Supreme Lord Krishna Himself, again appeared to teach the fallen souls of this material world how to approach Lord Krishna. The philosophy of  Bhagavad Gita  is that one should give up everything and be done with this world of material attachment. A pure devotee of Lord Krishna and one who follows the philosophy of Lord Chaitanya are the same. Chaitanya's philosophy is: one should give up everything and worship God, Krishna. The difference is that Krishna, as the Supreme Lord, the personality of Godhead, spoke the same words indicating Himself, and the  Mayavadi  philosophers misunderstood Him. Therefore, Lord Chaitanya indicated the same thing: one should not declare himself to be as good as Krishna, but should worship Krishna as the Supreme Lord.
It is a great mistake if we accept Lord Chaitanya as one of the conditioned souls; He is to be understood as the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna Himself, In the  Chaitanya Charitamrita , therefore, it is said of Lord Chaitanya: "Krishna is now present in His five diverse manifestations," as is being explained here. Unless one is in uncontaminated goodness, it is very difficult to understand Lord Chaitanya as the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. Therefore, to understand Lord Chaitanya one has to follow the direct disciples of Lord Chaitanya, the six Goswamis, and especially the path chalked out by Srila Jiva Goswami.
The most astonishing factor is that Lord Chaitanya, although the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, never exhibited Himself as Krishna. Rather, whenever He was detected by intelligent devotees as Lord Krishna, and addressed as Lord Krishna, He denied it, and sometimes He closed His ears, protesting that one should not be addressed as the Supreme Lord. This was His indirect teaching to the  Mayavadi  philosophers: that one should never pose oneself as the Supreme Lord falsely, and thereby misdirect the followers. The followers also should not be foolish enough to accept anyone and everyone as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, without testing with the Scriptures and by activities. One should not, however, mistake Lord Chaitanya with His five diverse manifestations as ordinary human beings. He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna Himself. The beauty of Lord Chaitanya is that, although He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, He Him-