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In the Chaitanya-caritamrta, Krishnadasa Kaviraja Goswami has stressed that Lord Chaitanya appeared for three principal reasons of His own. The first purpose was to relish the position of Srimati Radharani, who is the prime reciprocator of transcendental love of Sri Krishna. Lord Krishna is the reservoir of transcendental loving transactions with Srimati Radharani. The subject of those loving transactions is the Lord Himself, and Radharani is the object. Thus the subject, the Lord, wanted to relish the mellow in the position of the object, Radharani.

The second reason for His appearance was to understand the transcendental mellow of Himself. Lord Krishna is all sweetness. Radharani's attraction for Krishna is sublime, and to experience that attraction and understand the transcendental sweetness of Himself, He accepted the mentality of Radharani.

The third reason that Lord Chaitanya appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Radharani. The Lord thought that undoubtedly Radharani enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the company of Radharani, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Srimati Radharani than to Sri Krishna. Radharani felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of Krishna than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Sri Krishna to enjoy in the position of Srimati Radharani was impossible because that position was completely foreign to Him. Krishna is the transcendental male, and Radharani is the transcendental female. Therefore, to know the transcendental pleasure of loving Krishna, Lord Krishna Himself appeared as Lord Chaitanya, accepting the emotions and bodily luster of Srimati Radharani.

Therefore Sri Krishna as Lord Chaitanya appeared to fulfill His internal confidential desires, and externally, to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and to answer the call of His devotees. -

2007-05-22 19:28:13 · answer #1 · answered by Jayaraman 7 · 4 0

He was an incarnation of Lord Krishna, and exhibited the mood of Radha (who is a great devotee of Krishna) But Lord Jagannath is Krishna so I guess you could say Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is an incarnation of Jagannath. Lavender and Atheist (first two answerers) need to f'ing back off if they can't respect our religion.

2016-05-20 10:39:57 · answer #2 · answered by nadia 2 · 0 0

Your intellect can not dig the reasons for appearance of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This is the stupidity of our small mind. Masters come to this planet time and again, to guide us to traverse a good life.

Love and Regards
Master's Grace

2007-05-22 19:21:00 · answer #3 · answered by Master's Grace 2 · 0 2

Bhagat G aap to jaani jaan ho
phjir yeh kaisi lila apne bhagton ke saath
yeh kaisi jigyasa

2007-05-22 19:21:16 · answer #4 · answered by rakesh s 4 · 0 0

1) Desiring to understand the glory of Radharani's love,
2) the wonderful qualities in Him that She alone relishes through Her love, and
3) the happiness She feels when She realizes the sweetness of His love,
the Supreme Lord Hari, richly endowed with Her emotions, appeared from the womb of Srimati Saci-devi, as the moon appeared from the ocean.
http://vedabase.net/cc/adi/1/en1

It is not that Radharani is separate from Krishna. Radharani is also Krishna, for there is no difference between the energy and the energetic. Without energy, there is no meaning to the energetic, and without the energetic, there is no energy. Similarly, without Radha there is no meaning to Krishna, and without Krishna there is no meaning to Radha. Because of this, the Vaishnava philosophy first of all pays obeisances to and worships the internal pleasure potency of the Supreme Lord. Thus the Lord and His potency are always referred to as Radha-Krishna. Similarly, those who worship Narayana first of all utter the name of Lakshmi, as Lakshmi-Narayana. Similarly, those who worship Lord Rama first of all utter the name of Sita. In any case-Sita-Rama, Radha-Krishna, Lakshmi-Narayana-the potency always comes first.

Radha and Krishna are one, and when Krishna desires to enjoy pleasure, He manifests Himself as Radharani. The spiritual exchange of love between Radha and Krishna is the actual display of Krishna's internal pleasure potency. Although we speak of "when" Krishna desires, just when He did desire we cannot say. We only speak in this way because in conditioned life we take it that everything has a beginning; however, in spiritual life everything is absolute, and so there is neither beginning nor end. Yet in order to understand that Radha and Krishna are one and that They also become divided, the question "When?" automatically comes to mind. When Krishna desired to enjoy His pleasure potency, He manifested Himself in the separate form of Radharani, and when He wanted to understand Himself through the agency of Radha, He united with Radharani, and that unification is called Lord Caitanya. This is all explained by Srila Krishnadasa Kaviraja in the fifth verse of the Caitanya-caritamrita.

In the next verse the author further explains why Krishna assumed the form of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Krishna desired to know the glory of Radha's love. "Why is She so much in love with Me?" Krishna asked. "What is My special qualification that attracts Her so? And what is the actual way in which She loves Me?" It seems strange that Krishna, as the Supreme, should be attracted by anyone's love. A man searches after the love of a woman because he is imperfect-he lacks something. The love of a woman, that potency and pleasure, is absent in man, and therefore a man wants a woman. But this is not the case with Krishna, who is full in Himself. Thus Krishna expressed surprise: "Why am I attracted by Radharani? And when Radharani feels My love, what is She actually feeling?" To taste the essence of that loving exchange, Krishna made His appearance in the same way that the moon appears on the horizon of the sea. Just as the moon was produced by the churning of the sea, by the churning of spiritual loving affairs the moon of Caitanya Mahaprabhu appeared. Indeed, Lord Caitanya's complexion was golden, just like the luster of the moon. Although this is figurative language, it conveys the meaning behind the appearance of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The full significance of His appearance will be explained in later chapters.
http://vedabase.net/cc/introduction/en1

2007-05-22 20:17:53 · answer #5 · answered by Gaura 7 · 2 0

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