Text 80] The Residents of Varanasi Become Vaisnavas 339

TRANSLATION

When PrakaSananda Sarasvati supported himself by quoting the verse from
Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu immediately protested by ut-
tering the holy name of Lord Visnu. The Lord then presented Himself as a most
fallen living entity, and He said, ‘If someone accepts a fallen conditioned soul
as Visnu, Bhagavan, or an incarnation, he commits a great offense.”

PURPORT

Although Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was Visnu, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, He nonetheless, to teach us a lesson, denied belonging to the Visnu
category. Unfortunately, there are many so-called Visnu incarnations in this age of
Kali. People do not know that posing oneself as an incarnation is most offensive.
People should not accept an ordinary man as an incarnation of God, for this also is
a very great offense.

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Wes ‘faye’ gfe qeI—-AS SA-wy-AT |
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jive ‘visnu’ buddhi dire —yei brahma-rudra-sama
narayane mane tare ‘pdsandite’ ganana

SYNONYMS
jive—an ordinary living being; visnu—as Lord Visnu; buddhi—acceptance;
dure—let alone; yei—anyone who; brahma-rudra-sama—equal to personalities
like Lord Brahma and Lord Siva; néréyane—Lord Narayana, Visnu; mane—ac-
cepts; tare—such a person; pdsandite ganana—is grouped among the pdasandis,
atheistic offenders.

TRANSLATION

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu continued, ‘To say nothing of ordinary living en-
tities, even Lord Brahma and Lord Siva cannot be considered on the level of
Visnu or Narayana. If one considers them as such, he is immediately con-
sidered an offender and atheist.

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Aw atatais cas SHUT TAess |
FALWAT AHS HAMAS) SCAPAT I” be I
