Pusta Krishna, Mayapur, March 16:
“In this way, my Lord, You have appeared in different incarnations—as human beings, as animals, as a great saintly person, as demigods and as a fish and a tortoise. In this way You maintain the whole creation in different planetary systems and kill the demoniac principles in every age. My Lord, You therefore protect the principles of religion. In the age of Kali You do not assert Yourself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore You are known as Tri-yuga, or the Lord who appears in three yugas.”
Prabhupada:
ittham nr-tiryag-rsi-deva-jhasavatarair lokan vibhavayasi hamsi jagat pratipan dharmam maha-purusa pasi yuganuvrttam channah kalau yad abhavas tri-yugo ’tha sa tvam
So here is a very specific statement about Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is avatara. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the same Supreme Personality of Godhead, but He’s channa. Channa means covered, not directly, because He has appeared as a devotee. Avatara…
Rupa Gosvami has found out that He’s avatara of Krishna. All the devotees, Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, Rupa Gosvami, and in the sastra, and the Upanisad, Mahabharata, in every… Sadhu-sastra. Avatara should be confirmed by great devotees, personalities, and must be collaborated with the statement in the sastra.
So here is another statement in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The directly, it is stated in the Eleventh Canto, you know,
krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam sangopangastra-parsadam yajnaih sankirtanaih prayair yajanti hi sumedhsah [SB 11.5.32]
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, when He was being described before King Nimi by Karabhajana Muni the different incarnation in different millenniums, yuga-dharma-vrttam… Caitanya Mahaprabhu is also described by Vrndavana dasa Thakura, yuga-dharma-palo. So Caitanya Mahaprabhu is described here as channah kalau.
In the Kali-yuga He’s not appearing as other incarnations, not like Nrsimhadeva or many, Vamanadeva, Lord Ramacandra. He is appearing as a devotee. Why? Now, this is the most magnanimous avatara. People are so foolish, they could not understand Krishna. When Krishna said, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam [Bg. 18.66], they took it: “Who is this person ordering like that, Sarva-dharman parityajya? What right?”
That is our material disease. If somebody is ordered to do something, he protests, “Who are you to order me?” This is the position. God Himself, Krishna, what can He say? He orders, the Supreme Person, Supreme Being. He must order. He’s the supreme controller. He must order.
That is God. But we are so foolish that when God orders that “You do this,” we take it otherwise: “Oh, who is this man? He’s ordering like that. And sarva-dharman parityajya, ‘giving up everything’? Why shall I give Him?” Sarva-dharman: “I have created so many dharmas, ‘isms.’ I shall give it up? Why shall I give it up?” Therefore the same Lord came again as Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
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