108 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
SYNONYMS

seita—that; govinda—Govinda; sa@ksat—personally; caitanya—Lord Caitanya; gosari
—Gosani; jiva—the fallen living entities; nistarite—to deliver; aiche—such; dayalu—a
merciful Lord; Gra—another; nai—there is not.

TRANSLATION

That Govinda personally appears as Caitanya Gosani. No other Lord is as merciful
in delivering the fallen souls.

PURPORT

Having described Govinda in terms of His Brahman and Paramatma features, now
the author of S17 Caitanya-caritamcta advances his argument to prove that Lord Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the identical personality. The same Lord Sri Krsna, in the
garb of a devotee of Sri Krsna, descended to this mortal world to reclaim the fallen
human beings who had misunderstood the Personality of Godhead even after the
explanation of Bhagavad-gita. \n Bhagavad-gita the Personality of Godhead Sri
Krsna directly instructed that the Supreme is a person. Impersonal Brahman is His
glowing effulgence, Paramatma is His partial representation, and all men are there
fore advised to follow the path of Sri Krsna, leaving aside all mundane “isms.”
Offenders misunderstood this instruction, however, because of their poor fund of
knowledge. Thus by His causeless, unlimited mercy Sri Krsna came again as Sri
Caitanya Gosani.

The author of $7 Caitanya-caritampta most emphatically stresses that Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Sri Krsna Himself. He is not an expansion of the prakdga or
vildsa forms of Sri Krsna; He is the svayari-riupa, Govinda. Apart from the relevant
scriptural evidence forwarded by Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, there are in-
numerable statements regarding Lord Caitanya’s being the Supreme Lord Himself.
The following examples may be cited:

(1) From the Caitanya Upanisad: gaurah sarvatmda mahd-puruso mahatmd mahd-
yogi tri-gunatitah sattva-rupo bhaktim loke kdsyati. ‘‘Lord Gaura, who is the all-
pervading Supersoul, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appears as a great saint
and powerful mystic who is above the three modes of nature and is the emblem of
transcendental activity. He disseminates the cult of devotion throughout the world.”

(2) From the Svetasvatara Upanisad:

tam isvaranam paramam mahesvaram
tam devatanam paramam ca daivatam
patim patinadm paramam parastéd
vidama devarh bhuvanesam idyam
““O Supreme Lord, You are the Supreme Mahe§gvara, the worshipable Deity of all the
demigods and the Supreme Lord of all lords. You are the controller of all controllers,
the Personality of Godhead, the Lord of everything worshipable.” (Svez. Up. 6.7)
