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\u015ar\u012b Caitanya-carit\u0101m\u1e5bta, Madhya-l\u012bl\u0101 20.245-255<\/p>\n\u015ar\u012b Caitanya-carit\u0101m\u1e5bta, Madhya-l\u012bl\u0101 20.245-255<\/p>\n
New York, Dec. 16, 1966<\/p>\n
Audio for this lecture: https:\/\/prabhupadavani.org\/transcriptions\/661216ccny\/<\/a> <\/p>\n Prabhup\u0101da: Now, we have been discussing about incarnations. These incarnations are concerned so far the maintenance of the material world is required. In the spiritual world there is no incarnation. There is a permanent situation of the spiritual planets, and in different planets, He, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, has different expansions under different symbolic representation, and they are differently named. There is no change. But in the material world, when we speak of incarnation, that is in relationship with this material world. In this… For the material world these incarnations are expanded. And what are they? First the puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra; then l\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra; then gu\u1e47\u0101vat\u0101ra, three; then manvantar\u0101vat\u0101ra, four; then yug\u0101vat\u0101ra, five; and then \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra. \u015aakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u015ar\u012b Caitanya-carit\u0101m\u1e5bta, Madhya-l\u012bl\u0101 20.245-255 New York, Dec. 16, 1966 Audio for this lecture: https:\/\/prabhupadavani.org\/transcriptions\/661216ccny\/ Prabhupada Radio: https:\/\/prabhupadaradio.com Prabhup\u0101da: avat\u0101ra haya k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47era \u1e63a\u1e0d-vidha prak\u0101ra puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra eka, l\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra \u0101ra gu\u1e47\u0101vat\u0101ra, \u0101ra manvantar\u0101vat\u0101ra yug\u0101vat\u0101ra, \u0101ra \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra Now, we … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-db"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 18:13:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\navat\u0101ra haya k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47era \u1e63a\u1e0d-vidha prak\u0101ra
\npuru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra eka, l\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra \u0101ra
\ngu\u1e47\u0101vat\u0101ra, \u0101ra manvantar\u0101vat\u0101ra
\nyug\u0101vat\u0101ra, \u0101ra \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra<\/p>\n
\nSo these incarnations are manifested at different times according to the need. Just like in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 it is stated,
\nyad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya
\ngl\u0101nir bhavati bh\u0101rata
\nabhyutth\u0101nam adharmasya
\ntad\u0101tm\u0101na\u1e41 s\u1e5bj\u0101my aham
\n[Bg. 4.7]\nThere is a system. In the process of this material world there is a system. Just like for maintenance of your state, United States, there is system of government, and there is an aim. Just like your government does not like that…, there should be no Communistic persons, and you write that “We trust in God.” It is better to trust in God. You have got a system. Similarly, the maintenance of the whole material world, there is a system. It is not blind. Foolish creatures, they think that everything has come out of nothing, and it is being managed by nature. No. Behind nature there is God. In the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 you have learned, may\u0101dhyak\u1e63e\u1e47a prak\u1e5bti\u1e25 s\u016byate sa-car\u0101caram: [Bg. 9.10] “Under My superintendence the material nature is working.” Material nature is not blind. Just like foolish person, because he cannot see President Johnson and the governmental personalities, they think, “It is going on. Nobody is there behind this government, and it is going on.” So similarly, persons who have no knowledge in the affairs of this material world, they think that “This material nature is working, and automatically, by magic, the sun is coming out, the moon is coming out, and the season is changing, and everything is going on just like magic, and we are the master of everything.” Never think…, these foolish persons never think that they are not masters, they are servant, servant of the material nature.
\nSo that is their foolishness. Therefore, when there is too much foolishness, so there is need of avat\u0101ra, incarnation, to correct. Yad\u0101 yad\u0101 hi dharmasya gl\u0101nir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. Whenever there is, I mean to say, discrepancies in the maintenance of law and order of this material nature, there is need of avat\u0101ra, incarnation. Because it is God’s kingdom, it is also secondary kingdom—real kingdom is in the spiritual world—so God comes in different avat\u0101ra. And when the material world is created, the first avat\u0101ra is puru\u1e63a-avat\u0101ra. The Mah\u0101-Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, Garbhodaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b, They create. And then l\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra. L\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra, under some particular circumstances, to save some particular devotee, or to display some particular feature… Just like Lord R\u0101ma, He incarnated. He is l\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra. Then gu\u1e47\u0101vat\u0101ra. For maintenance of this material world there are different kinds of modes of nature, and to control those modes of nature there are avat\u0101ras, Brahm\u0101, Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, Mahe\u015bvara. L\u012bl\u0101vat\u0101ra. Then manvantar\u0101vat\u0101ra. The changes of millenniums, that manvantar\u0101vat\u0101ra. And then yug\u0101vat\u0101ras, yug\u0101vat\u0101ra, in each and every yuga. Just like this Kali-yuga. This is called Kali-yuga. In the Kali-yuga the incarnation is Lord Caitanya.
\nIt is stated in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam… There is a chapter. Nava-yogendra, nine great mystics, met one very powerful king, and they explained, each and every one of them. They explained about spiritual things. And there was a transcendentalist amongst them. Amongst the nine personalities, there was one whose name was Camasa Muni. The Camasa Muni said… That is explained in the \u015ar\u012bmad-Bh\u0101gavatam. When he was asked by Viveha Mah\u0101r\u0101ja, the King Viveha, “What is the avat\u0101ra of this Kali-yuga, especial?” then he mentioned,
\nk\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-var\u1e47a\u1e41 tvi\u1e63\u0101k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a\u1e41
\ns\u0101\u1e45gop\u0101\u1e45g\u0101stra-p\u0101r\u1e63adam
\nyaj\u00f1ai\u1e25 sa\u1e45k\u012brtana-pr\u0101yair
\nyajanti hi su-medhasa\u1e25
\n[SB 11.5.32]\n“Now, in this age of Kali-yuga, there will be avat\u0101ra, incarnation, who is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, but His color of the body is not black.” That is Lord Caitanya. Lord Caitanya was very fair complexion, nice looking. So k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-var\u1e47a\u1e41 tvi\u1e63\u0101. Tvi\u1e63\u0101, by complexion, He is not K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, but He is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-var\u1e47am tvi\u1e63\u0101k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47am and s\u0101\u1e45go ‘p\u0101\u1e45g\u0101stra-p\u0101r\u1e63adam. And He is associated by His confidential, I mean to say, devotees. You’ll find Lord Caitanya always crowded by His devotees, always. His dancing mood—you have seen the picture. Special associates, that Advaita, Gad\u0101dhara, Nity\u0101nanda. So that incarnation, who is K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, but His color, His complexion, is not black, but He is associated with devotees… And the process of worshiping that incarnation is to chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare.
\nSo in this yuga, this Kali-yuga, incarnation is Lord Caitanya, and the process of worship is this sound vibration. That is mentioned. In every avat\u0101ra, every incarnation… Just like Lord Buddha. His name is also mentioned. And there will be another incarnation, Kalki. That is also mentioned. So they are mentioned, yug\u0101vat\u0101ra. And \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra. \u015aakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra. All avat\u0101ras, their mission is to preach the message of God. Avat\u0101ra has no other business. The message of God. \u015aakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra. This Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare\/ Hare R\u0101ma, Hare R\u0101ma, R\u0101ma R\u0101ma, Hare Hare, this is also considered \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra, the incarnation of sound. Incarnation of sound. It is described by Lord Caitanya that kali-k\u0101le n\u0101ma r\u016bpe avat\u0101ra: “In this Kali-yuga, in this age, this incarnation of name—Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare Hare—to give facility to the conditioned soul.” They cannot do anything. It is very difficult to perform any other religious rituals. This, the best anywhere, everywhere—you can chant Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, Hare K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. N\u0101mn\u0101m ak\u0101ri bahudh\u0101 nija-sarva-\u015bakti. \u015aakti, this word is used, \u015bakti. And from \u015bakti, that energy, \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra. So this name is also \u015bakty\u0101ve\u015b\u0101vat\u0101ra.
\nb\u0101lya, pauga\u1e47\u1e0da haya vigrahera dharma
\neta-r\u016bpe l\u012bl\u0101 karena vrajendra-nandana
\nAnd when K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a personally comes, He can be seen in two features, b\u0101lya, pauga\u1e47\u1e0da: His childhood and boyhood, up to sixteenth year. That is the real feature of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, ki\u015bora. And further features, that is expansion of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, V\u0101sudeva. V\u0101sudeva\u1e25 sarvam iti [Bg. 7.19].
\nananta avat\u0101ra k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47era, n\u0101hika ga\u1e47ana
\n\u015b\u0101kh\u0101-candra-ny\u0101ya kari dig-dara\u015bana
\navat\u0101r\u0101 hy asa\u1e45khyey\u0101
\nhare\u1e25 sattva-nidher dvij\u0101\u1e25
\nyath\u0101 ‘vid\u0101sina\u1e25 kuly\u0101\u1e25
\nsarasa\u1e25 syu\u1e25 sahasra\u015ba\u1e25
\nNow, He is concluding about the topics of incarnation, that “There are innumerable incarnations of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. Nobody can count.” He is giving the example = just like nobody can count how many waves are flowing in the river or in the ocean, similarly, it is impossible to count how many incarnation are there.
\nprathamei kare k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a ‘puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra’
\nseita puru\u1e63a haya trividha prak\u0101ra’
\nNow, the first avat\u0101ra, first incarnation, is the puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra. He divides Himself into three. This is stated in the Vi\u1e63\u1e47u Pur\u0101\u1e47a:
\nvi\u1e63\u1e47os tu tr\u012b\u1e47i r\u016bp\u0101\u1e47i
\npuru\u1e63\u0101khy\u0101ny atho vidu\u1e25
\neka\u1e41 tu mahata\u1e25 sra\u1e63\u1e6d\u1e5b
\ndvit\u012bya\u1e41 tv a\u1e47\u1e0da-sa\u1e41sthitam
\nt\u1e5bt\u012bya\u1e41 sarva-bh\u016bta-stha\u1e41
\nt\u0101ni j\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 vimucyate
\nT\u0101ni j\u00f1\u0101tv\u0101 vimucyate. Now, in the Bhagavad-g\u012bt\u0101 you have read that,
\njanma karma me divya\u1e41
\nyo j\u0101n\u0101ti tattvata\u1e25
\ntyaktv\u0101 deha\u1e41 punar janma
\nnaiti m\u0101m eti kaunteya
\n[Bg. 4.9]\nAnyone who understands about the appearance and disappearance of God or His incarnation, simply by understanding this, one is liberated. And that person who understands, after quitting this material body, no more he comes here, but he goes back to Godhead to become one of His associates. Such persons who knows about the incarnations, they are not impersonalists. Therefore they do not merge in the impersonal Brahman feature, but they go to the different spiritual planets.
\nSo vi\u1e63\u1e47os tu tr\u012b\u1e47i r\u016bp\u0101\u1e47i: “That Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, for the creation of this material world, takes into three forms, tr\u012b\u1e47i r\u016bp\u0101\u1e47i.” Vi\u1e63\u1e47os tu tr\u012b\u1e47i r\u016bp\u0101\u1e47i purus\u0101khy\u0101ny atho vidu\u1e25: “And all of them are known as puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ras.” Mah\u0101-Vi\u1e63\u1e47u puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra, Garbhodaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra and K\u1e63\u012brodaka\u015b\u0101y\u012b Vi\u1e63\u1e47u puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra. They are called puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra. Eka\u1e41 tu mahata\u1e25 sra\u1e63\u1e6d\u1e5b: “And the first puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra, who is called Mah\u0101-Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, He creates the material ingredients, which is called mahat-tattva.” Everything requires ingredients. So the, I mean to say, original ingredients, the, what is called, subtle ingredients, they were created first by this Mah\u0101-Vi\u1e63\u1e47u. Then, from those ingredients, universes were produced. And each universe, eka\u1e41 tu mahata\u1e25 dvit\u012bya\u1e41 tv a\u1e47\u1e0da-sa\u1e41sthitam. The first puru\u1e63\u0101vat\u0101ra, Mah\u0101-Vi\u1e63\u1e47u, creates the ingredients, and the second Mah\u0101-Vi\u1e63\u1e47u enters in each and every universe. He is called dvit\u012bya. And t\u1e5bt\u012bya\u1e41 sarva-bh\u016bta-stham: “And the third, He enters into the body of all living entities, Param\u0101tm\u0101, or the Supersoul.” This is the division of three first incarnation.
\nananta-\u015bakti-madhye k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47era tina \u015bakti pradh\u0101na
\n‘icch\u0101-\u015bakti’, ‘kriy\u0101-\u015bakti’, ‘j\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti’ n\u0101ma
\nNow, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a has immense potencies, which are divided into three. What is that? Icch\u0101-\u015bakti, kriy\u0101-\u015bakti, j\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti. Icch\u0101-\u015bakti means His potency, whatever He wishes, that can be done, icch\u0101. Kriy\u0101-\u015bakti: then activity, kriy\u0101-\u015bakti. And j\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti, knowledge, knowledge. In the Vedic literature it is said, par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva \u015br\u016byate sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101 ca [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. Sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101 ca. Just like one potency is working, producing flowers, producing flowers. We are seeing that a flower is being produced automatically, so nicely scented, so nicely colored. But because we are fools, therefore we think it is being produced automatically. No. It is produced by the kriy\u0101-\u015bakti, by the active potency of God, kriy\u0101-\u015bakti. J\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti: and there is such perfect knowledge that nobody can see any defect. You see a butterfly, how it is nicely painted. You just see duplicate in both the wings. Just like an artist paint nicely, it is painted. So we think it is coming out of nothing. This is our foolishness. Here is, that it is coming out of the j\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti. But His j\u00f1\u0101na is so wide that simply by His desire, simply by His will, it can be executed. These are the things to be studied. Because we cannot see something before our eyes, that does not mean there is no existence. There is existence, but we do not know how one is working, how one is working. Sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101 ca. Sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101.
\nJust like you see the anatomical condition of your body. Now, how this body is produced, how nicely, that every mechanical arrangement, the eyes [piece?], and the…? Just like a big factory and big office. The brain is the office, and stomach is the factory, and it is creating energy, it is coming to the heart and another place… Just like soap factory. Sometimes, in some place, it is being, some part of the manufacture is finished, another… In this way it is going on. But it is coming out a small pea. And how it is developing. In everything you can see. You take a seed, how it develops, a great tree. How much potency is there. So sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101 ca. Everything is being done. I do not know. I claim, “It is my body,” but I do not know how even a hair is growing. I do not know how it is replaced. I cut in the morning, and the next day, I see again there is. So these things are going on. Sv\u0101bh\u0101vik\u012b j\u00f1\u0101na-bala-kriy\u0101 ca. We have to study God’s activity in this way, so many things, nature’s study. So those who are intelligent, they can see that these things are working. What is that? Icch\u0101-\u015bakti, kriy\u0101-\u015bakti, j\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti, these three potencies of God, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, is working.
\nicch\u0101-\u015bakti-pradh\u0101na k\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a-icch\u0101ya sarva-kart\u0101
\nj\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti-pradh\u0101na v\u0101sudeva adhi\u1e63\u1e6dh\u0101t\u0101
\nNow, out of these three different potencies, then K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a expands Himself also to conduct or to control or to act on these three potential power. The icch\u0101-\u015bakti, willing potency, that is being controlled by His expansion which is known as V\u0101sudeva. Icch\u0101-j\u00f1\u0101na vin\u0101 n\u0101 haya s\u1e5bjana. Without desire and without knowledge, nothing can be created, nothing. Suppose we are manufacturing so many things. Now, the manufacturer is first of all thinking, willing, that “This sort of thing, if we manufacture, it will be very nicely sold in the market.” That is icch\u0101-\u015bakti. Then he acts, acts on it. That is called j\u00f1\u0101na-\u015bakti. Without j\u00f1\u0101na, without willing, nothing is produced. So whenever you find something produced, you must know, behind that production there is that will, the supreme will, the supreme knowledge. This is study. Icch\u0101-\u015bakti-j\u00f1\u0101na…
\nicch\u0101-j\u00f1\u0101na vin\u0101 n\u0101 haya s\u1e5bjana
\ntinera tina-\u015bakti meli’ prapa\u00f1ca-racana
\nSo this icch\u0101-\u015bakti, this potency of will, supreme will, and the potency of supreme hand and the potency of supreme knowledge, these three things are conducting all affairs in this material world.
\nkriy\u0101-\u015bakti-pradh\u0101na sa\u1e45kar\u1e63a\u1e47a balar\u0101ma
\npr\u0101k\u1e5bt\u0101pr\u0101k\u1e5bta-s\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e6di karena nirm\u0101\u1e47a
\nAnd the potential activity, that is being done by the expansion of Sa\u1e45kar\u1e63a\u1e47a, either in this material world or in the spiritual world. So par\u0101sya \u015baktir vividhaiva \u015br\u016byate [Cc. Madhya 13.65, purport]. In this way the Lord is working in so many ways, and because we have no knowledge, we think that “There is no brain behind it. There is no knowledge behind it. Everything is coming out automatically, and we are the master of everything.” That is called illusion. So by K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a consciousness, you will be free from this illusion, and you will know how God is working by His different potential power.
\nThank you very much. Any question? [end]\n