244 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 24

‘atma’-sabde kahe —sarva-vidha bhagavan
eka ‘svayari bhagavan’, ara ‘bhagavan’-akhyadna

SYNONYMS
dtma-sabde—by the word atma; kahe—it is said; sarva-vidha bhagavan—all
types of Personalities of Godhead; eka—one; svayam bhagavan—the original
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna; 4ra—another; bhagavan-akhyana—the
Personality of Godhead by an expansive designation.

TRANSLATION

“The word atma refers to all the different expansions of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. One of them is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
Himself, Krsna, and the others are different incarnations or expansions of
Krsna.

PURPORT

The word atm also includes all kinds of Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. This means that Krsna has unlimited expansions. This is described in
Brahma-sarithita (5.46):

diparcir eva hi dasantaram abhyupetya
dipayate vivrta-hetu-samana-dharma

yas tadrg eva hi ca visnutaya vibhati
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

These expansions are thus compared to candles that have been lit from an original
candle. All the secondary candles are equally powerful, but the original candle is
that from which all the others have been lit. Krsna is the original Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, and He is expanded as Balarama, Sankarsana, Aniruddha,
Pradyumna and Vasudeva. In this way there are innumerable incarnations and ex-
pansions who are also called Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TEXT 286

Sics acy CAB, CHE HA—“HItaIy’ |
‘fafiee’, Aiotee’,—gefay ata 1 eu Il

tante rame yei, sei saba——‘atmarama’
‘vidhi-bhakta’, ‘raga-bhakta’, —dui-vidha nama
