522 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
TRANSLATION
He [Advaita Acarya] helps in the pastimes of the purusa, with whose material
energy and by whose will He creates innumerable universes.
TEXT 12
HALA OTS, AH STA |
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aero faa mel, qe” Ta ATA 92
jagat-mangala advaita, mangala-guna-dhama
mangala-caritra sada, ‘mangala’ yanra nama

SYNONYMS

jagat-mangala—all-auspicious to the world; advaita— Advaita Acarya; mangala-guna-
dhama-—the reservoir of all auspicious attributes; manga/la-caritra—all characteristics
are auspicious; sada@—always; mangala—auspicious; yafra nama—whose name.

TRANSLATION

Sri Advaita Acarya is all-auspicious to the world, for He is a reservoir of all-

auspicious attributes. His characteristics, activities and name are always auspicious.
PURPORT

Sri Advaita Prabhu, who is an incarnation of Maha-Visnu, is an dcarya, or teacher.
All His activities and all the other activities of Visnu are auspicious. Anyone who
can view the all-auspiciousness in the pastimes of Lord Visnu also becomes auspi-
cious simultaneously. Therefore, since Lord Visnu is the fountainhead of auspicious-
ness, anyone who is attracted by the devotional service of Lord Visnu can render the
greatest service to human society. Rejected persons of the material world who re-
fuse to understand pure devotional service as the eternal function. of the living en-
tities, and as actual liberation of the living being from conditional life, become
bereft of all devotional service because of their poor fund of knowledge.

In the teachings of Advaita Prabhu there is no question of fruitive activities or
impersonal liberation. Bewildered by the spell of material energy, however, persons
who could not understand that Advaita Prabhu is nondifferent from Visnu wanted
to follow Him with their impersonal conceptions. The attempt of Advaita Prabhu
to punish them is also auspicious. Lord Visnu and His activities can bestow all good
fortune, directly and indirectly. In other words, being favored by. Lord Visnu and
being punished by Lord Visnu are one and the same because all the activities of
Visnu are absolute. According to some, Mangala was another name of Advaita
Prabhu. As the causal incarnation, or Lord Visnu’s incarnation for a particular
occasion, He is the supply agent or ingredient in material nature. However, He is
never to be considered material. All His activities are spiritual. Anyone who hears
about and glorifies Him becomes glorified himself, for such activities free one from
