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His nice dancing, along with His associates, he also joined and began to sing
with Him:
Hari! Hari!

All the inhabitants of Benares were struck with wonder by seeing the dancing
of Lord Chaitanya in ecstasy. Lord Chaitanya, however, checked Himself
in His continuous ecstasy, and stopped His dancing when He saw that the
Mayavadi Sannyasis were also present. As soon as He stopped His chanting
and dancing, Prakasananda Saraswati fell at the feet of Lord Chaitanya.
Lord Chaitanya tried to stop him and said: “Oh, you are the Spiritual Master
of the whole world, Jagat Guru, and I am not equal even to your disciple. You
should not therefore worship an inferior like Me, Who is not even equal to the
disciple of your disciple. You are exactly like Supreme Brahman, and if you
fall down at My Feet it is a very great offense on My part. Although you have
no vision of duality, still for the teachings of the people in general you should
not do this.”

Prakasananda Saraswati replied, “Previously I spoke ill of You many
times. Therefore, in order to free myself from the result of my offense, I fall
down at Your Feet.” He quoted in this connection a verse of Vedic literature
in which it is stated that when even a liberated soul commits offense to the
Supreme Lord he becomes again a victim of the material contamination. He
quoted another verse from Srimad Bhagwatam, from the Tenth Canto, Thirty-
fourth Chapter, in connection with Nanda Maharaj and the attack of a serpent
who was previously Vidyadhavarehita. This serpent, being touched by the
Lotus Feet of Krishna, regained his previous body and thus he was freed from
the reaction of his sinful activities.

Lord Chaitanya, after hearing the equation of himself with Krishna, mildly
protested against such behavior. The fact is, He wanted to warn people in
general not to compare the Supreme Lord with any living entity. Although
He was the Supreme Lord Himself, still, to teach us, He protested against
this comparison, and said that nobody should be compared with the Supreme
Lord Krishna—that is the greatest offense. Lord Chaitanya always maintained
that Vishnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is great and the living enti-
ties, however great they may be, are not the infinite, but are infinitesimal.
He quoted, in this connection, a verse from Vaishnava Tantra, in the Padma
Purana, where it is stated: “Any person who compares the Supreme Lord
even with the greatest of demigods like Brahma and Shiva, must be con-
sidered a number one atheist.”

Prakasananda replied, “I can understand that You are the Supreme
