20211116 Three Principal Forms of Bhagavān -2.tad-ekātma-rūpa - b.svāṁsa (Personal Expansions) -4.manvantarāvatāra, 5.yugāvatāra Part 1

The following is a Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book Compilation given by His Holiness Jayapatākā Swami Mahārāja on November 16th, 2021 in Śrī Dhāma Māyāpur, India.

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Hare Kṛṣṇa! Dear Devotees! Today we will continue with the compilation of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Book

Today's chapter is entitled:
Three Principal Forms of Bhagavān - 2.tad-ekātma-rūpa - b.svāṁsa (Personal Expansions) - 4.manvantarāvatāra, 5.yugāvatāra Part 1
Under the section: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.319

(d) manvantarāvatāra varṇana –

manvantarāvatāra ebe śuna, sanātana
asaṅkhya gaṇana tāṅra, śunaha kāraṇa

Translation: “O Sanātana, now just hear about the incarnations who appear during the reign of each Manu [manvantara-avatāras]. They are unlimited, and no one can count them. Just hear of their source.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.320

manvantarāvatārera kāla —

brahmāra eka-dine haya caudda manvantara
caudda avatāra tāhāṅ karena īśvara

Translation: “In one day of Brahmā, there are fourteen changes of the Manus, and during the reign of each of those fourteen Manus, an incarnation is manifested by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Purport: From this verse it can be calculated that in one month (30 days) of Brahmā’s life there are 420 manvantara-avatāras and that in one year (360 days) of his life there are 5,040 manvantara incarnations. Thus, for the one hundred years of Brahmā’s life, there is a total of 504,000 manvantara-avatāras. In addition, the Manus themselves are considered partial incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, there is a saying that there are unlimited millions of universes and each universe, avatāra is appearing in every Manu. So, there is unlimited number of Manus or unlimited number of manvantara-avatāras. So, this is being explained by Lord Caitanya to Sanātana Gosvāmī.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.321

saṁkhyā-nirdeśa —

caudda eka dine, māse cāri-śata biśa
brahmāra vatsare pañca-sahasra calliśa

Translation: “There are 14 manvantara-avatāras in one day of Brahmā, 420 in one month, and 5,040 in one year.

Jayapatākā Swami: This gives the idea of the manvantara-avatāras

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.322

śateka vatsara haya ‘jīvana’ brahmāra
pañca-lakṣa cāri-sahasra manvantarāvatāra

Translation: “During the hundred years of Brahmā’s life, there are 504,000 manvantara-avatāras.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.323

kāraṇābdhiśāyīra niśvāsa-tyāga haite praśvāsa- grahaṇa- kāla paryanta brahmāra āyuḥ –

ananta brahmāṇḍe aiche karaha gaṇana
mahā-viṣṇu eka-śvāse brahmāra jīvana

Translation: “The number of manvantara-avatāras for only one universe has been given. One can only imagine how many manvantara-avatāras exist in the innumerable universes. And all these universes and Brahmās exist only during one exhalation of Mahā-Viṣṇu.

Jayapatākā Swami: This is giving an idea how many manvantara-avatāras there are.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.324

mahā-viṣṇura niśvāsera nāhika paryanta
eka manvantarāvatārera dekha lekhāra anta

Translation: “There is no limit to the exhalations of Mahā-Viṣṇu. Just see how impossible it is to speak or write of only the manvantara-avatāras!

Jayapatākā Swami: So, one breath of Māha-Viṣṇu is the whole hundred years of Brahmās life, the whole existence of the material world. So, and Māha-Viṣṇu breathes in and out unlimited times, so how great He is!

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.325

caudda manvantarāvatārera nāma —

svāyaṁbhuve ‘yajña’, svārociṣe ‘vibhu’ nāma
auttame ‘satyasena’, tāmase ‘hari’ abhidhāna

Translation: “In the Svāyambhuva-manvantara, the avatāra is named Yajña. In the Svārociṣa-manvantara, he is named Vibhu. In the Auttama-manvantara, He is named Satyasena, and in the Tāmasa-manvantara, He is named Hari.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, each Manvantara there is a specific manvantara-avatāra, so this science of the Absolute Truth explains how the Lord incarnates in different Manvantaras.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.326

raivate ‘vaikuṇṭha’, cākṣuṣe ‘ajita’, vaivasvate ‘vāmana’
sāvarṇye ‘sārvabhauma’, dakṣa-sāvarṇye ‘ṛṣabha’ gaṇana

Translation: “In the Raivata-manvantara, the avatāra is named Vaikuṇṭha, and in the Cākṣuṣa-manvantara, He is named Ajita. In the Vaivasvata-manvantara, He is named Vāmana, and in the Sāvarṇya-manvantara, He is named Sārvabhauma. In the Dakṣa-sāvarṇya-manvantara, he is named Ṛṣabha.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.327

brahma-sāvarṇye ‘viṣvaksena’, ‘dharmasetu’ dharma-sāvarṇye
rudra-sāvarṇye ‘sudhāmā’, ‘yogeśvara’ deva-sāvarṇye

Translation: “In the Brahma-sāvarṇya-manvantara, the avatāra is named Viṣvaksena, and in the Dharma-sāvarṇya, he is named Dharmasetu. In the Rudra-sāvarṇya he is named Sudhāmā, and in the Deva-sāvarṇya, he is named Yogeśvara.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.328

indra-sāvarṇye ‘bṛhadbhānu’ abhidhāna
ei caudda manvantare caudda ‘avatāra’ nāma

Translation: “In the Indra-sāvarṇya-manvantara, the avatāra is named Bṛhadbhānu. These are the names of the fourteen avatāras in the fourteen manvantaras.

Purport: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, in his Anubhāṣya, gives a list of Manus and their fathers’ names: (1) Svāyambhuva Manu, the son of Lord Brahmā; (2) Svārociṣa, the son of Svarocisa, or Agni, the predominating deity of fire; (3) Uttama, the son of King Priyavrata; (4) Tāmasa, the brother of Uttama; (5) Raivata, the twin brother of Tāmasa; (6) Cākṣuṣa, the son of the demigod Cakṣus; (7) Vaivasvata, the son of Vivasvān, the sun-god (whose name is mentioned in the Bhagavad-gītā [4.1]); (8) Sāvarṇi, a son born to the sun-god and his wife Chāyā; (9) Dakṣa-sāvarṇi, the son of the demigod Varuṇa; (10) Brahma-sāvarṇi, the son of Upaśloka; (11-14) Rudra-sāvarṇi, Dharma-sāvarṇi, Deva-sāvarṇi and Indra-sāvarṇi,the sons of Rudra, Ruci, Satyasahā and Bhūti respectively.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, the fourteen Manus in each day of Brahmā are mentioned here and each manvantara is very systematic.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.329

(e) yugāvatāra varṇana –

yugāvatāra ebe śuna, sanātana/ satya-tretā-dvāpara-kali-yugera gaṇana

Translation: “O Sanātana, now hear from Me about the yuga-avatāras, the incarnations for the millenniums. First of all, there are four yugas — Satya-yuga, Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga and Kali-yuga.

Jayapatākā Swami: Previously we heard about the manvantara-avatāras, which come, fourteen in the day of Brahmā but there are a thousand catur-yugas in the day of Brahmā. Each catur-yugas is made of these Satya-yuga, Tretā-yuga, Dvāpara-yuga and Kali-yuga. So, in each yuga also there is an avatāra.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.330

cāriyuge cārivarṇa avatāra –

śukla-rakta-kṛṣṇa-pīta—krame cāri varṇa
cāri varṇa dhari’ kṛṣṇa karena yuga-dharma

Translation: “In the four yugas — Satya, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali — the Lord incarnates in four colors: white, red, black and yellow respectively. These are the colors of the incarnations in different millenniums.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, Kṛṣṇa comes in different colors in different millenniums.

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.331

āsan varṇās trayo hy asya gṛhṇato ’nu-yugaṁ tanūḥ 
śuklo raktas tathā pīta idānīṁ kṛṣṇatāṁ gataḥ

Translation: “‘This child formerly had three colors according to the prescribed color for different millenniums. Formerly He was white, red and yellow, and now He has assumed a blackish color.’

Purport: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda This verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.8.13) was spoken by Garga Muni when performing the name-giving ceremony for Kṛṣṇa at the house of Nanda Mahārāja. The following two verses are also from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (11.5.21, 24).

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.332

kṛte śuklaś catur-bāhur jaṭilo valkalāmbaraḥ
kṛṣṇājinopavītākṣān bibhrad daṇḍa-kamaṇḍalū

Translation: “‘In Satya-yuga the Lord appeared in a body colored white, with four arms and matted hair. He wore tree bark and bore a black antelope skin. He wore a sacred thread and a garland of rudrākṣa beads. He carried a rod and a waterpot, and He was a brahmacārī.’

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.333

tretāyāṁ rakta-varṇo ’sau catur-bāhus tri-mekhalaḥ
hiraṇya-keśas trayy-ātmā sruk-sruvādy-upalakṣaṇaḥ

Translation: “‘In Tretā-yuga, the Lord appeared in a body that had a reddish hue and four arms. There were three distinctive lines on His abdomen, and His hair was golden. His form manifested the Vedic knowledge, and He bore the symbols of a sacrificial spoon, ladle and so on.’

Caitanya Caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.334

satye brahmacāriveṣī śukla-varṇa caturbhuja bhagavān evaṁ tretāya rakta-varṇa catur-bhuja bhagavān —

satya-yuge dharma-dhyāna karāya ‘śukla’-mūrti dhari’
kardamake vara dilā yeṅho kṛpā kari’

Translation: “As the white incarnation, the Lord taught religion and meditation. He offered benedictions to Kardama Muni, and in this way He showed His causeless mercy.

Purport: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Kardama Muni was one of the prajāpatis. He married Devahūti, the daughter of Manu, and their son was Kapiladeva. The Supreme Lord was very pleased with Kardama Muni’s austerities, and He appeared before Kardama Muni in a whitish body. This happened in the Satya-yuga millennium, when people were accustomed to practicing meditation.

Jayapatākā Swami: So, in each of the three yugas Satya, Tretā and Dvāpara, the Lord comes as proclaimed as an avatāra. In Kali-yuga He comes disguised, and He doesn’t reveal to everyone that He is an avatāra because in Kali-yuga many people claim they are avatāras. So, the Lord is known as Trī-yuga, and He only proclaims Himself in Satya, Tretā and Dvāpara yugas. He comes in Kali-yuga, but then He is a covered avatāra. So, this verse shows how Kapila muni, he came as the son of Devahūtī and Kardama Muni and He gave the sāṅkhya philosophy. So, in every yuga there is also an avatāra, who give the yuga-dharma and the various process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the sacrifice recommended for the Age.

Thus ends the chapter entitled:
Three Principal Forms of Bhagavān -2 tad-ekātma-rūpa - b.svāṁsa (Personal Expansions) - 4.manvantarāvatāra, 5.yugāvatāra
Under the section: Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Instructs Sanātana Gosvāmī in the Science of the Absolute Truth