204 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

purnasya plurnam ddaya
plurnam evavasisyate

“The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely
perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly
equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the complete whole is also
complete in itself. Because He is the complete whole, even though so many
complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.” (Sr7
Isopanisad, \nvocation)

In the realm of the Absolute, one plus one equals one, and one minus one equals
one. Therefore one should not conceive of a fragment of the Supreme Lord in the
material sense. In the spiritual world there is no influence of the material energy or
material calculations of fragments. In the Fifteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gitd the
Lord says that the living entities are His parts and parcels. There are innumerable
living entities throughout the material and spiritual universes, but still Lord Krsna
is full in Himself. To think that God has lost His personality because His many
parts and parcels are distributed all over the universe is an illusion. That is a material
calculation. Such calculations are possible only under the influence of the material
energy, mayd. In the spiritual world the material energy is conspicuous only by its
absence.

In the category of visnu-tattva there is no loss of power from one expansion to
the next, any more than there is a loss of illumination as one candle kindles another.
Thousands may be kindled by an original candle, and all will have the same candle
power. In this way it is to be understood that although all the visnu-tattvas, from
Krsna and Lord Caitanya to Rama, Nesimha, Varaha and so on, appear with
different features in different ages, all are equally invested with supreme potency.

Demigods such as Lord Brahma and Lord Siva come in contact with the material
energy, and their power and potency are therefore of different gradations. All the
incarnations of Visnu, however, are equal in potency, for the influence of maya
cannot even approach them.

TEXT 72

BLES, frestere— WSs Fo ow |
BCVA Vaxate Seca Botte 192 0

advaita, nityananda— caitanyera dui afiga
afgera avayava-gana kahiye upanga

SYNONYMS

advaita— Advaita Acarya; nitydnanda—Lord Nityananda; ca/tanyera—of Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu; dui—two; afga—\limbs; afgera—of the limbs; avayava-gana—
the constituent parts; kahiye—| say; upanga—parts.
