Text 99] The Lord’s Visit to Sri Vrndavana 179

mahaprabhu dekhi’ ‘satya’ krsna-darasana

SYNONYMS
mahdaprabhu dekhi’—by seeing Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; satya—truly; krsna-
darasana—seeing Krsna; nija-ajhane—by their personal lack of knowledge; satya
chadi’—giving up the real truth; asatye—untruth; satya-bhrama—mistaking for
the truth.

TRANSLATION

When the people saw Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, they actually saw Krsna,
but because they were following their own imperfect knowledge, they ac-
cepted the wrong thing as Krsna.

TEXT 99

SHS Gra Bw GA BATA |
‘wyesl He’, TB’ BLA Ba AXIAL!’ dd I

bhattacarya tabe kahe prabhura carane
‘ajfia deha’, yi’ kari krsna darasane!’

SYNONYMS
bhattécérya—Balabhadra Bhattacarya; tabe—at that time; kahe—says;
prabhura carane—at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; aja deha’—
please give permission; yai’—going; kari krsna darasane—I shall see Lord Krsna
directly.

TRANSLATION

At that time Balabhadra Bhattacarya placed a request at the lotus feet of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He said, ‘Please give me permission to go see Lord
Krsna directly.”

PURPORT

The puzzled people who visited Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were actually seeing
Lord Krsna, but they were mistaken in thinking that Lord Krsna had come to Kaliya
Lake. They all said that they had seen Krsna directly performing His pastimes on
the hood of the serpent Kaliya and that the jewels on Kaliya’s hoods were blazing
brilliantly. Because they were speculating with their imperfect knowledge, they
saw Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as an ordinary human being and a boatman’s light
