26 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta (Madhya-lila, Ch. 1

The Laghu-bhagavatamrta is divided into two parts. The first is called “The
Nectar of Krsna” and the second “The Nectar of Devotional Service.” The im-
portance of Vedic evidence is stressed in the first part, and this is followed by
a description of the original form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as
$i Krsna and descriptions of His pastimes and expansions in svarhsa (personal
forms) and vibhinnarnsa. According to different absorptions, the incarnations
are called avesa and tad-ekatma. The first incarnation is divided into three
purusavataras—namely, Mahad-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and
Ksirodakasayt Visnu. Then there are the three incarnations of the modes of
nature—namely, Brahma, Visnu and MaheSvara (Siva). All the paraphernalia
used in the service of the Lord is transcendental, beyond the three qualities of
this material world. There is also a description of twenty-five lila-avataras,
namely Catuhsana (the Kumaras), Narada, Varaha, Matsya, Yajiia, Nara-
narayana Rsi, Kapila, Dattatreya, Hayagriva, Harhsa, Prsnigarbha, Rsabha,
Prthu, Nrsirnha, Karma, Dhanvantari, Mohini, Vamana, Parasurama, DaSarathi,
Krsna-dvaipayana, Balarama, Vasudeva, Buddha and Kalki. There are also
fourteen incarnations of Manu: Yajfia, Vibhu, Satyasena, Hari, Vaikuntha,
Ajita, Vamana, Sarvabhauma, Rsabha, Visvaksena, Dharmasetu, Sudhama,
Yogesvara and Brhadbhanu. There are also four incarnations for the four
yugas, and their colors are described as white, red, blackish and black
(sometimes yellow, as in the case of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu). There are
different types of millenniums and incarnations for those millenniums. The
categories called dvesa, prabhava, vaibhava and para constitute different
situations for the different incarnations. According to specific pastimes, the
names are spiritually empowered. There are also descriptions of the dif-
ference between the powerful and the power, and the inconceivable ac-
tivities of the Supreme Lord.

Sri Krsna is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, and no one is
greater than Him. He is the source of all incarnations. In the Laghu-
bhagavatamrta there are descriptions of His partial incarnations, a description
of the impersonal Brahman effulgence (actually the bodily effulgence of Sri
Krsna), the superexcellence of $ri Krsna’s pastimes as an ordinary human
being with two hands, and so forth. There is nothing to compare with the
two-armed form of the Lord. In the spiritual world (vaikuntha-jagat) there is
no distinction between the owner of the body and the body itself. In the ma-
terial world the owner of the body is called the soul, and the body is called a
material manifestation. In the Vaikuntha world, however, there is no such dis-
tinction. Lord $11 Krsna is unborn, and His appearance as an incarnation is per-
petual. Krsna’s pastimes are divided into two parts—manifest and un-
