Text 19] Lord Caitanya’s Childhood Pastimes 139

nary child but an incarnation of Narayana, they decided that on that very same
day, which was very auspicious, they should observe a festival for His name-giving
ceremony. In this connection we can particularly see how an incarnation of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead is ascertained by His bodily symptoms, His activi-
ties and the prediction of the sdstras. By factual evidence a person can be accepted
as an incarnation of God, not whimsically or by the votes of rascals and fools. There
have been many imitation incarnations in Bengal since the appearance of Lord
Caitanya, but any impartial devotee or learned man can understand that Lord
Caitanya Mahaprabhu was accepted as an incarnation of Krsna not on the basis of
popular votes but by evidence from the sdstras and bona fide scholars. It was not
ordinary men who accepted Sti Caitanya Mahaprabhu as the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. In the beginning His identity was ascertained by learned scholars
like Nilambara Cakravarti, and later all His activities were confirmed by the six
Gosvamis, especially Srtla ]Tva Gosvami and Srila Rupa Gosvami, and many other
learned scholars, with evidence from the sdstra. An incarnation of God is such from
the very beginning of His life. It is not that by performing meditation one can
become an incarnation of God all of a sudden. Such false incarnations are meant for
fools and rascals, not sane men.

TEXT 19

WACHITSS Blacaq VS aaa, cas 1
‘fava’ ay @ztz,— a8 & stad i son

sarva-lokera karibe ihan dharana, posaria
‘visvambhara‘ nama ihdra,—ei te’ karana

SYNONYMS

sarva-lokera—of all people; karibe—will do; shan—this child; dhdrana—protection;
posana—maintenance; visvambhara—the name Visvambhara; ndma—name; ihdra—
His; e/—this; ta’—certainly ; k@rana—the reason.

TRANSLATION

“In the future this child will protect and maintain all the world. For this reason
He is to be called Visvambhara.”

PURPORT

The Caitanya-bhagavata also confirms that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, by His
birth, has made the whole world peaceful, as in the past Narayana protected this
earth in His incarnation as Varaha. Because of His protecting and maintaining this
world in the present Kali-yuga, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is ViSvambhara, which
refers to one who feeds the entire world. The movement inaugurated by Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu when He was present five hundred years ago is again being propagated
all over the world, and factually we are seeing its practical results. People are being
