160 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

self as a great devotee is teaching all the conditioned souls how devotional
service should be conducted. The conditioned souls who are interested in
devotional service should follow, therefore in the exemplary footsteps of
Lord Chaitanya, to learn how Krishna can be achieved by devotional service.
In other words, the Supreme Lord Himself teaches the conditioned soul
how He should be approached by devotional service.

By analytical study of the five diverse manifestations of the Supreme
Lord we can know that Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme
Absolute, and that Lord Nityananda is an immediate expansion of the Supreme
Absolute Truth. We can understand that Adwaita Prabhu is also in the category
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but he is the subordinate to Lord
Chaitanya and Nityananda Prabhu. The Supreme Personality of Godhead and
His immediate subordinate expansions are all worshippable by the other two,
namely, the internal potential representation, and the marginal potential
representation.

The internal potential representation, Gadadhara, represents the pure
devotee, and the marginal potential representation is a confidential devotee.
Both these categories are worshippers of the other three categories, but all
of them—the two worshippable categories and the two in the worshipper
category—are engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

There is a specific difference between the pure devotee and the confidential
devotee. Different potencies of the Lord are engaged in serving the Supreme
Lord in different transcendental relationships. They are situated in conjugal
love, in parental affection, in friendly affinity and in obedient servitude. By
impartial judgement, it is found that the internal potencies of the Supreme
Lord, engaged in conjugal love with Him, are the best of all devotees. As
such, both internal devotees and confidential devotees are attracted by the
conjugal love of the Supreme Absolute Truth, and are the most confidential
devotees of Lord Chaitanya. Other pure devotees, who are more or less
attached to Sri Nityananda Prabhu and to Adwaita Prabhu, are attracted by
other transcendental relationships, such as parental affection, friendly affinity
and obedient servitude. When such devotees are very much attached to the
activities of Lord Chaitanya, at once they become confidential devotees in
conjugal love with the Supreme Lord.

There is a very nice song sung by a great devotee and Acharya in the dis-
ciplic succession from Lord Chaitanya. His name is Sri Thakur Narottamdas.

Sri Thakur says as follows: “When will there be a transcendental vibration
