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20211112 Three Principal Forms of Bhagavān 2.tad-ekātma-rūpa b.svāṁsa 1. puruṣa-avatāra

12 Nov 2021|Duration: 00:40:16|English|Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book|Transcription|Śrī Māyāpur, India

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation

Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation

By His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on 12th November 2021 in

Śrīdhāma Māyāpur, India

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram

hariḥ oṁ tat sat

Introduction: Today is the compilation of Caitanya līlā book, the chapter today is entitled:

Three Principal Forms of Bhagavān -2.tad-ekātma-rūpa – b.svāṁsa (Personal Expansions) – 1. puruṣa-avatāra - Part 1

Under the section: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.243

etāvat kṛṣṇa-svarūpera chaya-prakāra vilāsera antargata prābhava o vaibhava-rūpa dvividha prakāśera vilāsa varṇita; ekṣaṇe svāṁśa o śaktyāveśa-rūpa dvividhāvatāra vakṣyamāṇa —

prakāśa-vilāsera ei kailuṅ vivaraṇa
svāṁśera bheda ebe śuna, sanātana

Translation: “I have already described the pastime and prakāśa forms. Now please hear about the different personal expansions.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the details of the Lord’s expansions are being described here by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu recorded in Caitanya-caritāmṛta.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.244

svāṁśera pradhānataḥ dui rūpa—
(1) prakṛtira adhiṣṭhātā cālaka,
(2) sādhura pālaka o asādhura vināśaka-rūpe nānā avatāra —

saṅkarṣaṇa, matsyādika,—dui bheda tāṅra
saṅkarṣaṇa—puruṣāvatāra, līlāvatāra āra

Translation: “The first personal expansion is Saṅkarṣaṇa, and the others are incarnations like the fish incarnation. Saṅkarṣaṇa is an expansion of the Puruṣa, or Viṣṇu. The incarnations such as Matsya, the fish incarnation, appear in different yugas for specific pastimes.

Purport by Śrīla Prabhupāda: The puruṣa-avatāras are the Lords of the universal creation. These are Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. There are also līlā-avatāras, and these include (1) Catuḥsana, or the four Kumāras, (2) Nārada, (3) Varāha, (4) Matsya, (5) Yajña, (6) Nara-Nārāyaṇa, (7) Kārdami Kapila, (8) Dattātreya, (9) Hayaśīrṣā, (10) Haṁsa, (11) Dhruvapriya, or Pṛśnigarbha, (12) Ṛṣabha, (13) Pṛthu, (14) Nṛsiṁha, (15) Kūrma, (16) Dhanvantari, (17) Mohinī, (18) Vāmana, (19) Bhārgava Paraśurāma, (20) Rāghavendra, (21) Vyāsa, (22) Pralambāri Balarāma, (23) Kṛṣṇa, (24) Buddha and (25) Kalki.

These twenty-five Personalities of Godhead are known as līlā-avatāras. Because they appear in each day of Brahmā, or in each kalpa (millennium), they are sometimes known as kalpa-avatāras. Of these incarnations, Haṁsa and Mohinī are neither permanent nor very well known, but They are listed among the prābhava-avatāras. Kapila, Dattātreya, Ṛṣabha, Dhanvantari and Vyāsa are eternally situated and very widely known. They are also counted among the prābhava incarnations. Kūrma, Matsya, Nārāyaṇa, Varāha, Hayagrīva, Pṛśnigarbha and Baladeva, the killer of Pralambāsura, are counted among the vaibhava-avatāras.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.245

chaya-prakāra avatāra —

avatāra haya kṛṣṇera ṣaḍ-vidha prakāra
puruṣāvatāra eka, līlāvatāra āra

Translation: “There are six types of incarnations [avatāras] of Kṛṣṇa. One comprises the incarnations of Viṣṇu [puruṣa-avatāras], and another comprises the incarnations meant for the performance of pastimes [līlā-avatāras].

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.246

guṇāvatāra, āra manvantarāvatāra
yugāvatāra, āra śaktyāveśāvatāra

Translation: “There are incarnations that control the material qualities [guṇa-avatāras], incarnations who appear during the reign of each Manu [manvantara-avatāras], incarnations in different millenniums [yuga-avatāras] and incarnations of empowered living entities [śaktyāveśa-avatāras].

Purport: The guṇa-avatāras are three — Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and Lord Viṣṇu (Bhāg. 10.88.3). The avatāras who appear during the reign of each Manu, known as manvantara-avatāras, are listed as follows in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Eighth Canto, chapters 1, 5 and 13): (1) Yajña, (2) Vibhu, (3) Satyasena, (4) Hari, (5) Vaikuṇṭha, (6) Ajita, (7) Vāmana, (8) Sārvabhauma, (9) Ṛṣabha, (10) Viṣvaksena, (11) Dharmasetu, (12) Sudhāmā, (13) Yogeśvara and (14) Bṛhadbhānu. All together these are fourteen in number, and of these, Yajña and Vāmana are also counted among the līlā-avatāras. All these manvantara incarnations are sometimes called vaibhava-avatāras.

The four yuga-avatāras are (1) śukla (white) in Satya-yuga (Bhāg. 11.5.21), (2) rakta (red) in Tretā-yuga (Bhāg. 11.5.24), (3) śyāma (dark blue) in Dvāpara-yuga (Bhāg. 11.5.27) and (4) generally kṛṣṇa (black) but in special cases pīta (yellow) as Caitanya Mahāprabhu in Kali-yuga (Bhāg. 11.5.32 and 10.8.13).

The śaktyāveśa-avatāras are categorized into (1) forms of divine absorption (bhagavad-āveśa), such as Kapiladeva or Ṛṣabhadeva, and (2) divinely empowered forms (śaktyāveśa), of whom seven are foremost: (1) Śeṣa Nāga in the Vaikuṇṭha world, empowered for the personal service of the Supreme Lord (sva-sevana-śakti), (2) Anantadeva, empowered to bear all the planets within the universe (bhū-dhāraṇa-śakti), (3) Lord Brahmā, empowered with the energy to create the cosmic manifestation (sṛṣṭi-śakti), (4) Catuḥsana, or the Kumāras, specifically empowered to distribute transcendental knowledge (jñāna-śakti), (5) Nārada Muni, empowered to distribute devotional service (bhakti-śakti), (6) Mahārāja Pṛthu, specifically empowered to rule and maintain the living entities (pālana-śakti) and (7) Paraśurāma, specifically empowered to cut down rogues and demons (duṣṭa-damana-śakti).

Jayapatākā Swami: So, different kinds of incarnations are described in these verses, some are personally expansions of the Lord and some are expansions of expansions and some are empowered living entities. So, in this way, the Absolute Truth is situated in various forms.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.247

kiśora kṛṣṇera chaya-prakāra vilāsera madhye vayodharma-bhede dvividha vilāsa vā līlā —

bālya, paugaṇḍa haya vigrahera dharma
eta-rūpe līlā karena vrajendra-nandana

Translation: “Childhood and boyhood are the typical ages of the Deity. Kṛṣṇa, the son of Mahārāja Nanda, performed His pastimes as a child and as a boy.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa’s childhood and boyhood pastime sin Gokula are very special and He performed these pastimes in the mood of a cowherd and when He goes to Mathurā and Dvārakā He change His mood to a kṣatriya.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.248

kṛṣṇera asaṁkhya avatāra —

ananta avatāra kṛṣṇera, nāhika gaṇana
śākhā-candra-nyāya kari dig-daraśana

Translation: “There are innumerable incarnations of Kṛṣṇa, and there is no possibility of counting them. We can simply indicate them by giving the example of the moon and the branches of a tree.

Purport: Although the moon appears to be located in the branches of a tree, it is actually situated very far away. Similarly, none of the avatāras, or incarnations, of Lord Kṛṣṇa are within this material world, but they are visible by the causeless mercy of the Lord. We should not consider them to belong to this material world. As stated by Lord Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā (Bg. 9.11):

avajānanti māṁ mūḍhā
mānuṣīṁ tanum āśrītam
paraṁ bhāvam ajānanto
mama bhūta-maheśvaram

“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.”

Avatāras descend of their own free will, and although they may act like ordinary human beings, they do not belong to this material world. Lord Kṛṣṇa and His avatāras can be understood only by the grace of the Lord.

nāyam ātmā pravacanena labhyo
na medhayā na bahunā śrutena
yam evaiṣa vṛṇute tena labhyas
tasyaiṣa ātmā vivṛṇute tanūṁ svām
(Kaṭha Upaniṣad 1.2.23)

“The Supreme Lord is not obtained by means of expert explanations, vast intelligence or even much hearing. He is obtained only by one whom He Himself chooses. To such a person, He manifests His own form.”

athāpi te deva padāmbuja-dvaya-
prasāda-leśānugṛhīta eva hi
jānāti tattvaṁ bhagavan-mahimno
na cānya eko ’pi ciraṁ vicinvan
(Bhāg. 10.14.29)

“My Lord, if one is favored by even a slight trace of the mercy of Your lotus feet, he can understand the greatness of Your personality. But those who speculate to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead are unable to know You, even though they continue studying the Vedas for many years.”

Jayapatākā Swami: So, reading the Vedic literatures and hearing from the ācāryas in the disciplic succesion, one of the four bona fide disciplic successions, having some mercy from the Lord, one is able to understand the position of Supreme Personality of Godhead, that He comes out of His own free will, He is not conditioned by the material energy, nor is He a product of the material energy. He existed before the material energy and He exist after the material energy, and He comes down to this material energy by His own free will.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.249

Śrīmad-Bhāgavate (1.3.26)

avatārā hy asaṅkhyeyā
hareḥ sattva-nidher dvijāḥ
yathā ’vidāsinaḥ kulyāḥ
sarasaḥ syuḥ sahasraśaḥ

Translation: “‘O learned brāhmaṇas, just as hundreds and thousands of small rivulets issue from great reservoirs of water, innumerable incarnations flow from Śrī Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the reservoir of all power.’

Purport: This verse is quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.26).

Jayapatākā Swami: So, there is no limit to how many avatāras come from Lord Kṛṣṇa just as He is unlimited, His expansions or avatāras are also unlimited.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.250

(a) sarva-prathame tinaṭī puruṣāvatāra—

kāraṇa-garbha-kṣīrasāgaraśāyī —

prathamei kare kṛṣṇa ‘puruṣāvatāra’
seita puruṣa haya trividha prakāra

Translation: “In the beginning, Kṛṣṇa incarnates Himself as the puruṣa-avatāras, or Viṣṇu incarnations. These are of three types.

Purport: Up to this verse, the many types of expansions have been described. Now the manifestations of the Lord’s different potencies will be described.

Jayapatākā Swami: Karanadokasayi Vishu or Māha-Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu are the three Viṣṇu expansions One Māha-Viṣṇu, one Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu in every universe, and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu in every atom and every heart of every living being.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.251

Laghu-Bhāgavatāmṛte (1.33) sātvata-tantra-vākya —

viṣṇos tu trīṇi rūpāṇi
puruṣākhyāny atho viduḥ
ekaṁ tu mahataḥ sraṣṭṛ
dvitīyaṁ tv aṇḍa-saṁsthitam
tṛtīyaṁ sarva-bhūta-sthaṁ
tāni jñātvā vimucyate

Translation: “‘Viṣṇu has three forms called puruṣas. The first, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is the creator of the total material energy [mahat], the second is Garbhodaśāyī, who is situated within each universe, and the third is Kṣīrodaśāyī, who lives in the heart of every living being. He who knows these three becomes liberated from the clutches of māyā.’

Purport: This verse appears in the Laghu-bhāgavatāmṛta (Pūrva-khaṇḍa 2.9), where it has been quoted from the Sātvata-tantra.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.252

eka kṛṣṇai trividha svarūpa-śaktira adhiṣṭhātā —

ananta-śakti-madhye kṛṣṇera tina śakti pradhāna
‘icchā-śakti’, ‘jñāna-śakti’, ‘kriyā-śakti’ nāma

Translation: “Kṛṣṇa has unlimited potencies, out of which three are chief — willpower, the power of knowledge and the creative energy.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.253

svayaṁ kṛṣṇa—icchā vā ānanda-śaktira evaṁ catur-vyūhara madhye

(1) vāsudeva-rūpe tinii samvicchaktira prabhu —

icchā-śakti-pradhāna kṛṣṇa—icchāya sarva-kartā
jñāna-śakti-pradhāna vāsudeva adhiṣṭhātā

Translation: “The predominator of the willing potency is Lord Kṛṣṇa, for by His supreme will everything comes into existence. In willing, there is a need for knowledge, and that knowledge is expressed through Vāsudeva.

Jayapatākā Swami: The science of the Absolute Truth, how the different potencies of the Lord manifest, is explained here.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.254

icchā-jñāna-kriyā vinā nā haya sṛjana
tinera tina-śakti meli’ prapañca-racana

Translation: “There is no possibility of creation without thinking, feeling, willing, knowledge and activity. The combination of the supreme will, knowledge and action brings about the cosmic manifestation.

Jayapatākā Swami: Einstein, after studying the material world, said that there must be some intelligence behind, we can see here how the different potencies of Kṛṣṇa manifest to create the material world.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.255

tinii balarāma vā saṅkarṣaṇa-rūpe sandhinī-śaktira prabhu, trividha-śakti-dvāre cidacijjagat-prākaṭya –

kriyā-śakti-pradhāna saṅkarṣaṇa balarāma
prākṛtāprākṛta-sṛṣṭi karena nirmāṇa

Translation: “Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa is Lord Balarāma. Being the predominator of the creative energy, He creates both the material and the spiritual world.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the material and spiritual worlds are created though the agency of Balarāma through His Saṅkarṣaṇa expansion.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.256

saṅkarṣaṇai ādi-puruṣa vā kāraṇaśāyī o cid-vaibhava sattāra kāraṇa –

ahaṅkārera adhiṣṭhātā kṛṣṇera icchāya
goloka, vaikuṇṭha sṛje cic-chakti-dvārāya

Translation: “That original Saṅkarṣaṇa [Lord Balarāma] is the cause of both the material and the spiritual creation. He is the predominating Deity of egotism, and by the will of Kṛṣṇa and the power of the spiritual energy, He creates the spiritual world, which consists of the planet Goloka Vṛndāvana and the Vaikuṇṭha planets.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, this explains how the spiritual world is expanded through Lord Balarāma, the original Saṅkarṣaṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.257

cicchakti-vilāsa tadrapavaibhava saṅkarṣaṇa haite prakāśita —

yadyapi asṛjya nitya cic-chakti-vilāsa
tathāpi saṅkarṣaṇa-icchāya tāhāra prakāśa

Translation: “Although there is no question of creation as far as the spiritual world is concerned, the spiritual world is nonetheless manifested by the supreme will of Saṅkarṣaṇa. The spiritual world is the abode of the pastimes of the eternal spiritual energy.

Jayapatākā Swami: The spiritual world is not created but it is manifested by Lord Balarāma and He keeps it manifested , He is the first expansion of Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.258

anantarūpī saṅkarṣaṇa haite goloka-dhāma-prākaṭya—

Brahma-saṁhitāya (5.2)—

sahasra-patraṁ kamalaṁ
gokulākhyaṁ mahat padam
tat-karṇikāraṁ tad-dhāma
tad anantāṁśa-sambhavam

Translation: “‘Gokula, the supreme abode and planet, appears like a lotus flower that has a thousand petals. The whorl of that lotus is the abode of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. This lotus-shaped supreme abode is created by the will of Lord Ananta.’

Purport: This verse is quoted from the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.2).

Jayapatākā Swami: Lord Anantadeva is an expansion of Lord Balarāma. And Lord Balarāma, He is ultimately willing the expansion of the spiritual world.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.259

sāṁkhyavāda-nirāsa, saṅkarṣaṇera īkṣaṇa-śakti-kṣubdhā jaḍā māyāi kriyāvatī haiyā viśva-sṛṣṭi-kāriṇī –

māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa
jaḍa-rūpā prakṛti nahe brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa

Translation: “By the agency of the material energy, this same Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa creates all the universes. The dull material energy — known in modern language as nature — is not the cause of the material universe.

Jayapatākā Swami: This is very important to understand, His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda has explained that ‘Life comes Life’ and that dull material energy on its own cannot create anything. So, this verse clarifies the actual activities of the material world, ultimately caused by Supreme Personality of Godhead and not by the material energy, which the modern scientists some of whom state that everything comes from accident, and in this Śrīla Prabhupāda describes that these so-called scientist are over stepping their powers, they cannot say how things are created. So, here Lord Caitanya is instructing Sanātana Gosvāmī how the material world comes into being by the will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is not by Big Bang or Big Bounce or any other mundane theory. So, these Vedic literatures are descending knowledge, give the actual science of manifestation of the material world.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.260

jaḍa haite sṛṣṭi nahe īśvara-śakti vine
tāhātei saṅkarṣaṇa kare śaktira ādhāne

Translation: “Without the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s energy, dull matter cannot create the cosmic manifestation. Its power does not arise from the material energy itself but is endowed by Saṅkarṣaṇa.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Saṅkarṣaṇa prabhu, who is iccha-śaktī causes the material world to come to life by inserting the small separated particles, expansions of Kṛṣṇa.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.261

upamā –

īśvarera śaktye sṛṣṭi karaye prakṛti
lauha yena agni-śaktye pāya dāha-śakti

Translation: “Dull matter alone cannot create anything. The material energy produces the creation by the power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Iron itself has no power to burn, but when iron is placed in fire, it is empowered to burn.

Jayapatākā Swami: When the material energy is entered into by the separated spiritual particles which are living entities then the material energy starts to manifest in different forms.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.262

rāma-kṛṣṇai viśvera ekamātra janaka o niyāmaka –

Śrīmad-Bhāgavate (10.46.31)—

etau hi viśvasya ca bīja-yonī
rāmo mukundaḥ puruṣaḥ pradhānam
anvīya bhūteṣu vilakṣaṇasya
jñānasya ceśāta imau purāṇau

Translation: “‘Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa are the original efficient and material causes of the material world. As Mahā-Viṣṇu and the material energy, They enter into the material elements and create the diversities by multi-energies. Thus They are the cause of all causes.’

Purport: This verse is quoted from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.46.31).

Jayapatākā Swami: So, they cause things to happen so the cause of all causes , they cause things to cause, thus they are the cause of all causes.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.263

prapañcātīta dhāma haite kṛpā-pūrvaka prapañce prākaṭya vā avataraṇai avatāra —

sṛṣṭi-hetu yei mūrti prapañce avatare
sei īśvara-mūrti ‘avatāra’ nāma dhare

Translation: “The form of the Lord that descends into the material world to create is called an avatāra, or incarnation.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the  inwordcarnation literally means to take a material form the incarana, but He doesn’t do that, He actually descends with His own spiritual form into the material world, therefore Sanskrit word used is avatāra, which means descend.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.264

māyātīta paravyome sabāra avasthāna
viśve avatari’ dhare ‘avatāra’ nāma

Translation: “All the expansions of Lord Kṛṣṇa are actually residents of the spiritual world. But when they descend into the material world, they are called incarnations [avatāras].

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa is avatarī, the source of all expansions who live in spiritual world but when they descend into the material world, they are called avatāra, in English it is called incarnation but They are actually descending with their full spiritual identity.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.265

saṅkarṣaṇai prakṛti-vīkṣaṇa o bījavapanakārī ādi-puruṣāvatāra –

sei māyā avalokite śrī-saṅkarṣaṇa
puruṣa-rūpe avatīrṇa ha-ilā prathama

Translation: “To glance over that material energy and empower her, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa first incarnates as Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.266

Śrīmad-Bhāgavate (1.3.1)—

jagṛhe pauruṣaṁ rūpaṁ
bhagavān mahad-ādibhiḥ
sambhūtaṁ ṣoḍaśa-kalam
ādau loka-sisṛkṣayā

Translation: “‘In the beginning of the creation, the Lord expanded Himself in the form of the puruṣa incarnation, accompanied by all the ingredients of material creation. First He created the sixteen principal energies suitable for creation. This was for the purpose of manifesting the material universes.’

Purport: This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.3.1). For an explanation, refer to Ādi-līlā, chapter five, verse 84.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the Supreme Lord He does the first creation of the whole material world, unlimited material universes and secondary creation is done in each universe by Lord Brahmā

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.267

Śrīmad-Bhāgavate (2.6.42)

ādyo ’vatāraḥ puruṣaḥ parasya
kālaḥ svabhāvaḥ sad-asan manaś ca
dravyaṁ vikāro guṇa indriyāṇi
virāṭ svarāṭ sthāsnu cariṣṇu bhūmnaḥ

Translation: “‘Kāraṇābdhiśāyī Viṣṇu [Mahā-Viṣṇu] is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, the mind, the elements, the material ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form of the Lord, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and the sum total of all living beings, both moving and nonmoving.’

Purport: This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (2.6.42). For an explanation, refer to Ādi-līlā, chapter five, verse 83.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, without creating the material world there is no question of avatāra.  Avatāra or incarnation means descend from the spiritual world to the material world. So, the first form is Māha-Viṣṇu, he creates all the sixteen ingredients needed, then He also manifests or expands as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu in each universe.

Thus ends the chapter entitled, Three Principal Forms of Bhagavān -2.tad-ekātma-rūpa – b.svāṁsa (Personal Expansions) – 1. puruṣa-avatāra - Part 1

Under the section: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth

Transcribed and Verified by JPS Archives 12th November 2021

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