94 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

the controller of all living entities. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita, wherein Lord
Krsna says, sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: ‘‘\ am situated in everyone’s heart.”
(Bg. 15.15) Bhagavad-gitd also states (Bg. 5.29), bhoktdram yajfia-tapasdm sarva-
loka-mahesvaram, indicating that the Supreme Lord, acting in His expansion as the
Supersoul, is the proprietor of everything. Similarly, the Brahma-samhitd states,
andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham: the Lord is present everywhere, within
the heart of every living entity and within each and every atom as well. Thus by
this Supersoul feature the Lord is all-pervading.

Furthermore, Lord Caitanya is also the master of all wealth, strength, fame,
beauty, knowledge and renunciation because He is Sri Krsna Himself. He is described
as purna, or complete. In the feature of Lord Caitanya, the Lord is an ideal
renouncer, just as Sri Rama was an ideal king. He accepted the order of sannydsa and
exemplified exceedingly wonderful principles in His own life. No one can compare
to Him in the order of sannydsa. Although in Kali-yuga acceptance of the sannydsa
order is generally forbidden, Lord Caitanya accepted it because He is complete in
renunciation. Others cannot imitate Him but can only follow in His footsteps as
far as possible. Those who are unfit for this order of life are strictly forbidden by
the injunctions of the Sdstras to accept it. Lord Caitanya, however, is complete in
renunciation as well as all other opulences. He is therefore the highest principle of
the Absolute Truth.

By an analytical study of the truth of Lord Caitanya, one will find that He is not
different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna; no one is greater than
or even equal to Him. In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna says to Arjuna, mattah parataram
nanyat kificid asti dhanafijaya: ‘‘O conquerer of wealth [Arjuna], there is no truth
superior to Me.”’ (Bg. 7.7) Thus it is here confirmed that there is no truth higher
than Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya.

The impersonal Brahman is the goal of those who cultivate the study of books of
transcendental knowledge, and the Supersoul is the goal of those who perform the
yoga practices. One who knows the Supreme Personality of Godhead surpasses
realization of both Brahman and Paramatma because Bhagavan is the ultimate
platform of absolute knowledge.

The Personality of Godhead is the complete form of sac-cid-dnandda (full life,
knowledge and bliss). By realization of the sat portion of the Complete Whole
(unlimited existence), one realizes the impersonal Brahman of the Lord. By realiza-
tion of the cit portion of the Complete Whole (unlimited knowledge), one can
realize the localized aspect of the Lord, Paramatma. But neither of these partial
realizations of the Complete Whole can help one realize Gnanda, or complete bliss.
Without such realization of @nanda, knowledge of the Absolute Truth is incomplete.

This verse of Caitanya-caritamrcta by Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami is confirmed by
a parallel statement in the Tattva-sandarbha by Srila Jiva Gosvami. In the Eighth
Part of Tattva-sandarbha it is said that the Absolute Truth is sometimes approached
as impersonal Brahman, which, although spiritual, is only a partial representation
of the Absolute Truth. Narayana, the predominating Deity in Vaikuntha, is to be
known as an expansion of Sri Krsna, but Sri Krsna is the Supreme Absolute Truth,
the object of the transcendental love of all living entities.
