Adi-lila, Chapter 3 205
TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Prabhu and Sri Nityananda Prabhu are both plenary portions of Lord
Caitanya. Thus They are the limbs [angas] of His body. The parts of these two
limbs are called the upangas.

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afngopahga tiksna astra prabhura sahite
sei saba astra haya pasanda dalite
SYNONYMS

afiga-upanga— plenary portions and parts; tiksna—sharp; astra— weapons; prabhura
sahite—along with Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; se/— these; saba— all; astra— weapons;
haya—are; pdsanda—the atheists; da/ite—to trample.

TRANSLATION

Thus the Lord is equipped with sharp weapons in the forms of His parts and
plenary portions. All these weapons are competent enough to crush the faithless
atheists.

PURPORT

The word pdsanda is very significant here. One who compares the Supreme
Personality of Godhead to the demigods is known as a pdsanda. Pasandas try to
bring the Supreme Lord down to a mundane level. Sometimes they create their
own imaginary God or accept an ordinary person as God and advertise him as equal
to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They are so foolish that they present
someone as the next incarnation of Lord Caitanya or Krsna although His activities
are all contradictory to those of a genuine incarnation, and thus they fool the
innocent public. One who is intelligent and who studies the characteristics of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead with reference to the Vedic context cannot be
bewildered by the pasangas.

Pdsandas, or atheists, cannot understand the pastimes of the Supreme Lord or
transcendental loving service to the Lord. They think that devotional service is no
better than ordinary fruitive activities (karma). As Bhagavad-gita (4.8) confirms,
however, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees, saving the righteous
and chastising the miscreants (paritrdndya sadhiinar vinasaya ca duskrtam), always
curb these nonsensical atheists. Miscreants always want to deny the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead and put stumbling blocks in the path of devotional service.
The Lord sends His bona fide representatives and appears Himself to curb this
nonsense.
