70 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

The conclusion is that the Supreme Original Personality of Godhead is
Krishna—He is called Leela Purushottam, and He is principally in Vrindaban
as the Son of Nanda. It is also learned from the Hayasirsha Pancharacha that
nine forms are protecting two Puris, known as the Mathura Puri and the
Dwarka Puri: the four Forms of Vasudeva, Samkarshan, Pradyumna, and
Aniruddha, and besides these four Forms, there are Narayan Forms, Nrish-
ingha Forms, Hayagriva Forms, Varaha Forms and Brahma. The above
descriptions are different manifestations of the Prakasa and Vilasa Forms of
Lord Krishna.

Now Lord Chaitanya informs Sanatan Goswami that there are different
Forms of the Svamsa also: Svamsa Forms are divided into the Samkarshan
division and the incarnation division. From the Samkarshan division come
the three Purusha Avatars: the Karanodakshayee Vishnu, Garbhodakshayee
Vishnu and Kshirodakshayee Vishnu. The other division is called Leela avatars,
such as the Lord’s incarnation as a Fish, as a Tortoise, etc.

There are six kinds of incarnations: 1. the Purusha Avatar incarnations, 2.
the Leela Avatar incarnation, 3. the Guna Avatar, 4. the Manu Avatar, 5. the
Yuga Avatar, and 6. the Saktavesh Avatar. Out of six kinds of Vilasa mani-
festations of Krishna there are two divisions based on His age. They are called
Balya and Pauganda. The original Form of Krishna as the Son of Nanda
enjoys in two Forms of childhood, namely Balya and Pauganda.

The conclusion is that there is no end to the expansions and incarnations of
Krishna. Here Lord Chaitanya describes some of them to Sanatan just to give
him an idea of how the Lord is expanding and how He is enjoying. This is
confirmed in the Srimad Bhagwatam, in the First Canto, Third Chapter. It is
said there that there is no limit to the emanations of incarnations of the Supreme
Lord, just as there is no limit to the waves of the ocean.

Krishna’s first incarnation is as the three Purusa Avatars, namely the Maha
Vishnu (or Karanodakshayee) Avatar, Garbhodakshayee Avatar and Kshiro-
dakshayee Avatar. This is confirmed in the Sasvata, Tantra.

Krishna’s energies are also divisible into three: His energy of thinking,
His energy of feeling, and His energy of acting. In His energy of thinking He is
the Supreme Lord, in His energy of feeling He is Lord Vasudeva, and in His
energy of acting He is Samkarshan Valaram. Without thinking, feeling, and
acting there could be no possibility of the Creation. Although there is no
creation of the Spiritual World, yet there is the creation of this material world.
But both the Spiritual World and the material world are manifestations of the
energy of acting—in the Form of Samkarshan and Valaram—of Krishna.
