Jai Sri Krsna Caitanya and Jai Kalki Avatara
BY: LOKAGURU DASA
Jan 17, USA (SUN) — Payonidhi prabhu has quoted many wonderful purports and lectures to support his contention that Kalki Avatara comes in every Kali yuga (Misconceptions about Kalki Avatara). The question is not whether Sri Kalki appears in this Kali yuga, but how He appears.
Firstly, it is a fact that Lord Caitanya appears one time in a day of Lord Brahma (1 out of 2,000 Kali yugas). Therefore, in this one Kali yuga, our Kali yuga, who is the yuga avatara? Now, Payonidhi prabhu may have forgotten about Srila Prabhupada writing in Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya 6.99 purport that:
“In this Age of Kali there are no lila-avataras, but there is an incarnation of the Lord manifested in the body of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.”
Caitanya-caritamrta Madhya 6.98-104:
(Madhya 6.98) "In Srimad-Bhagavatam and Mahabharata it is stated that the Lord appears directly, but you say that in this age there is no manifestation or incarnation of Lord Visnu.”
(Madhya 6.99) "In this Age of Kali there is no lila-avatara of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; therefore He is known as Triyuga. That is one of His holy names."
PURPORT
“A lila-avatara is an incarnation of the Lord who performs a variety of activities without making any special endeavor. He always has one pastime after another, all full of transcendental pleasure, and these pastimes are fully controlled by the Supreme Person. The Supreme Person is totally independent of all others in these pastimes. ...... In his book Laghu-bhagavatamrta, Srila Rupa Gosvami has enumerated the following twenty-five lila-avataras: Catuh-sana, Narada, Varaha, Matsya, Yajna, Nara-Narayana, Kapila, Dattatreya, Hayasirsa (Hayagriva), Hamsa, Prsnigarbha, Rsabha, Prthu, Nrsimha, Kurma, Dhanvantari, Mohini, Vamana, Parasurama, Raghavendra, Vyasa, Balarama, Krsna, Buddha and Kalki.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not mentioned as a lila-avatara because He is an incarnation in disguise (channa-avatara). In this Age of Kali there are no lila-avataras, but there is an incarnation of the Lord manifested in the body of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.This has been explained in Srimad-Bhagavatam.”(SB11.5.31-32)
(Madhya 6.100) “Gopinatha Acarya continued, "There is certainly an incarnation in every age, and such an incarnation is called the yuga-avatara. But your heart has become so hardened by logic and argument that you cannot consider all these facts.”
(Madhya 6.101) "In the past, your son has had bodies of three different colors, according to the age. These colors were white, red and yellow. In this age [Dvapara-yuga] He has accepted a blackish body.”
PURPORT
This verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.8.13) was spoken by Garga Muni when he was performing the rituals at Lord Krsna's name-giving ceremony. He states that the incarnations of the Lord in other ages had been white, red and yellow. This yellow color refers to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, whose bodily complexion was yellowish. This confirms that in the past Kali-yugas, the Lord also had incarnated in a body that was yellow in hue. It is understood that the Lord incarnates in different colors for the different yugas (Satya, Treta, Dvapara and Kali). Accepting the color yellow (pita), as well as other characteristics, the Lord incarnated as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. This is the verdict of all Vedic authorities.
(Madhya 6.102) "In the Age of Kali, as well as in Dvapara-yuga, the people offer prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead by various mantras and observe the regulative principles of the supplementary Vedic literature. Now please hear of this from me.”
PURPORT
This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.5.31).
(Madhya 6.103) "In this Age of Kali, those who are intelligent perform the congregational chanting of the Hare Krsnamaha-mantra, worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who appears in this age always describing the glories of Krsna. That incarnation is yellowish in hue and is always associated with His plenary expansions [such as Sri Nityananda Prabhu] and personal expansions [such as Gadadhara], as well as His devotees and associates [such as Svarupa Damodara]."
This verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.5.32) is explained by Sri Jiva Gosvami in his Krama-sandarbha, as quoted by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura in regard to the explanation of Adi-lila, Third Chapter, verse 52.
(Madhya 6.104) "The Lord [in the incarnation of Gaurasundara] has a golden complexion. Indeed, His entire body, which is very nicely constituted, is like molten gold. Sandalwood pulp is smeared all over His body. He will take the fourth order of spiritual life [sannyasa] and will be very self-controlled. He will be distinguished from Mayavadi sannyasis in that He will be fixed in devotional service and will spread the sankirtana movement."
PURPORT
“Gopinatha Acarya quoted this verse from the Mahabharata's Visnu-sahasra-nama-stotra.
Thus, according to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Krsna Das Kaviraja in Caitanya-caritamrta, Lord Caitanya is the avatara for Kali yuga, not Kalki Avatara.
Each of us should ask ourselves, is Srila Prabhupada contradicting himself or is this just an apparent contradiction? If this was an actual contradiction (if someone were to choose Payonidhi's quotes as the truth and exclude Lokaguru's quotes, this equals contradiction; or if someone were to choose Lokaguru's quotes and reject Payonidhi's quotes this would also equal contradiction.) Then that person(s) would be saying that Srila Prabhupada makes mistakes or is not a pure devotee. This is not the case because Srila Prabhupada is an uttama adhikari pure devotee, therefore this must be an apparent contradiction.
Is there any sastra that would harmonize the two sets of quotes? Srila Prabhupada himself reconciles the apparent contradiction in Caitanya-caritamrta Adi 4.10-12 where He writes that:
(CC Adi 4.10): “When the complete Supreme Personality of Godhead descends, all other incarnations of the Lord meet together within Him.”
(Adi 4.11-12) “Lord Narayana, the four primary expansions [Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha], Matsya and the other lila incarnations, the yuga-avataras, the manvantara incarnations and as many other incarnations as there are - all descend in the body of Lord Krsna. In this way the complete Supreme Godhead, Lord Krsna Himself, appears.”
And Srila Prabhupada also writes in (CC Adi 5.131-133): “When the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna appears, He is the shelter of all plenary parts. Thus at that time all His plenary portions join in Him.”
(Adi 5.132) “In whatever form one knows the Lord, one speaks of Him in that way. In this there is no falsity, since everything is possible in Krsna.”
PURPORT
“.... Therefore this matter may be difficult to understand. But the Gaudiya Vaisnava-sampradaya, headed by Rupa Gosvami, has established the principle of the Bhagavad-gita that everything emanates from Krsna, who says in the Bhagavad-gita, aham sarvasya prabhavah: "I am the original source of everything." "Everything" includes Narayana. Therefore Rupa Gosvami, in his Laghu-bhagavatamrta, has established that Krsna, not Narayana, is the original Personality of Godhead.
In this connection he has quoted a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.2.15) that states:
sva-santa-rupesv itaraiu svarupair
abhyardyamanesv anukampitatma
paravareso mahad-amsa-yukto
hy ajo 'pi jato bhagavan yathagnih
"When pure devotees of the Lord like Vasudeva are greatly disturbed by dangerous demons like Kamsa, Lord Krsna joins with all His pastime expansions, such as the Lord of Vaikuntha, and, although unborn, becomes manifest, just as fire becomes manifest by the friction of arani wood." Arani wood is used to ignite a sacrificial fire without matches or any other flame. Just as fire appears from arani wood, the Supreme Lord appears when there is friction between devotees and nondevotees. When Krsna appears, He appears in full, including within Himself all His expansions like Narayana, Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Aniruddha and Pradyumna. Krsna is always integrated with His other incarnations, like Nrsimhadev, Varaha, Vamana, Nara-Narayana, Hayagriva and Ajita. In Vrndavana sometimes Lord Krsna exhibits the functions of such incarnations.
In the Brahmana Purana it is said: "The same Personality of Godhead who is known in Vaikuntha as the four-handed Narayana, the friend of all living entities, and in the milk ocean as the Lord of Svetadvipa, and who is the best of all puranas, appeared as the son of Nanda. In a fire there are many sparks of different dimensions; some of them are very big, and some are small. The small sparks are compared to the living entities, and the large sparks are compared to the Visnu expansions of Lord Krsna. All the incarnations emanate from Krsna, and after the end of their pastimes they again merge with Krsna."
Therefore in the various Puranas Krsna is described sometimes as Narayana, sometimes as Ksirodakasayi Visnu, sometimes as Garbhodakasayi Visnu and sometimes as Vaikunthanatha, the Lord of Vaikuntha. Because Krsna is always full, Mula-sankarsana is in Krsna, and since all incarnations are manifested from Mula-sankarsana, it should be understood that He can manifest different incarnations by His supreme will, even in the presence of Krsna. Great sages have therefore glorified the Lord by different names. Thus when the original person, the source of all incarnations, is sometimes described as an incarnation, there is no discrepancy.
(Adi 5.133) “Therefore Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has exhibited to everyone all the pastimes of all the various incarnations.”
Thus Srila Prabhupada confirms that when Lord Caitanya appears in Kali Yuga, The Kalki Avatara appears, But Kalki Avatara appears within the body of Lord Caitanya because Lord Caitanya is Sri Krsna, full, complete, and the shelter of all plenary parts and incarnations. As for the statement by Payonidhi prabhu that, Srila “Narayana Maharaja and Mother Jadurani have many misconceptions about Kalki Avatara.” That statement is false. Srila Narayana Maharaja is an uttama adhikari pure devotee and has dedicated his life to propagating the holy names of the Lord. Jadurani dd is an advanced, very senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada. I pray that Payonidhi prabhu can find the necessary humility to ask for forgiveness for his false allegations. Payonidhi prabhu, Please forgive my harsh tone and any offences I have made to you.
Sincerely,
your servant,
Lokaguru das
