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activities. One should not accept a rascal as an incarnation of God but should test
his ability to act as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For example, Krsna
taught Arjuna in Bhagavad-gita, and Arjuna also accepted Him as the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, but for our understanding Arjuna requested the Lord to
manifest His universal form, thus testing whether He was actually the Supreme
Lord. Similarly, one must test a so-called incarnation of Godhead according to the
standard criteria. To avoid being misled by an exhibition of mystic powers, it is
best to examine a so-called incarnation of God in the light of the statements of
Sastras. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is described in the Sastras as an incarnation of Krsna;
therefore if one wants to imitate Lord Caitanya and claim to be an incarnation, he
must show evidence from the sastras about his appearance to substantiate his claim.

TEXTS 31-32
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taha dekhi’ mahaprabhu karena cintana
jagat duvaite ami karilun yatana
keha keha edaila, pratijna ha-ila bhanga
ta-saba duvaite patiba kichu ranga
SYNONYMS
taha dekhi’—observing this advancement; mahaprabhu—Lord Sri Caitanya Maha-
prabhu; karena—does; cintana—thinking; jagat—the whole world; duvaite—to drown;
ami—\; karilun—endeavored; yatana—attempts; keha keha—some of them; edaila—
escaped; pratijfia—promise; ha-ila—became; bhanga—broken; ta-saba—all of them;
duvaite—to make them drown; patiba—shall devise; kichu—some; ranga—trick.
TRANSLATION
Seeing that the Mayavadis and others were fleeing, Lord Caitanya thought:
| wanted everyone to be immersed in this inundation of love of Godhead, but some
of them have escaped. Therefore I shall devise a trick to drown them also.
PURPORT
Here is an important point. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to invent a way
to capture the Mayavadis and others who did not take interest in the Krsna con-
sciousness movement. This is the symptom of an acarya. An acarya who comes for
the service of the Lord cannot be expected to conform to a stereotype, for he must
find the ways and means by which Krsna consciousness may be spread. Sometimes
