Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 7.70

prabhāve dekhiye tomā sākshāt nārāyana

hīnācāra kara kene, ithe ki kārana

SYNONYMS

prabhāve — in Your opulence; dekhiye — I see; tomā — You; sākshāt — directly; nārāyana — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; hīna-ācāra — lower-class behavior; kara — You do; kene — why; ithe — in this; ki — what is; kārana — reason.

TRANSLATION

"You look as brilliant as if You were Nārāyana Himself. Will You kindly explain the reason that You have adopted the behavior of lower-class people?"

PURPORT

Due to renunciation, Vedānta study, meditation and the strict regulative principles of their daily routine, Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are certainly in a position to execute pious activities. Thus Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, on account of his piety, could understand that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was not an ordinary person but the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sākshāt nārāyana: he considered Him to be Nārāyana Himself. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs address one another as Nārāyana because they think that they are all going to be Nārāyana or merge with Nārāyana in the next life. Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī appreciated that Caitanya Mahāprabhu had already directly become Nārāyana and did not need to wait until His next life. One difference between the Vaishnava and Māyāvādī philosophies is that Māyāvādī philosophers think that after giving up their bodies they are going to become Nārāyana by merging with His body, whereas Vaishnava philosophers understand that after the body dies they are going to have a transcendental, spiritual body in which to associate with Nārāyana.

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