96 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
SYNONYMS

svayam—Himself; bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; krsma—Lord
Krsna; vispu—of all-pervading Visnu; para-tattva—the ultimate truth; pirna-jnana—
full knowledge; piirna-@nanda—full bliss; parama—su preme; mahattva—greatness.

TRANSLATION

Krsna, the original form of the Personality of Godhead, is the summum bonum of
the all-pervading Visnu. He is all-perfect knowledge and all-perfect bliss. He is the
Supreme Transcendence.

TEXT 9
TTS’ afer Trea SAAS NE |
AR BY VIS CoBMet A fea Ui dW
‘nanda-suta’ bali’ yadnre bhdgavate gai
sei krsna avatitna caitanya-gosafi
SYNONYMS

nanda-suta—the son of Nanda Maharaja; bali’—as; yarire— who; bha@gavate—in the
Srimad-Bhagavatam; gai—is sung; sei—that; krsna—Lord Krsna; avatirna—descended;
caitanya-gosahi— Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

TRANSLATION

He whom Srimad-Bhagavatam describes as the son of Nanda Maharaja has

descended to earth as Lord Caitanya.
PURPORT

According to the rules of rhetorical arrangement for efficient composition in
literature, a subject should be mentioned before its predicate. The Vedic literature
frequently mentions Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan, and therefore these three
terms are widely known as the subjects of transcendental understanding. But it is
not widely known that what is approached as the impersonal Brahman is the
effulgence of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s transcendental body. Nor is it widely
known that the Supersoul, or Paramatma, is only a partial representation of Lord
Caitanya, who is identical with Bhagavan Himself. Therefore the descriptions of
Brahman as the effulgence of Lord Caitanya, Paramatma as His partial representa-
tion, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna as identical with Lord Caitanya
Mahdaprabhu must be verified by evidence from authoritative Vedic literatures.

The author wants to establish first that the essence of the Vedas is visnu-tattva,
the Absolute Truth, Visnu, the all-pervading Godhead. The visnu-tattva has different
categories, of which the highest is Lord Krsna, the ultimate visnu-tattva, as confirmed
