CC Madhya 18.111
Bengali
প্রভু কহে, — ‘বিষ্ণু’ ‘বিষ্ণু’, ইহা না কহিবা !
জীবাধমে ‘কৃষ্ণ’-জ্ঞান কভু না করিবা ! ১১১ ॥
জীবাধমে ‘কৃষ্ণ’-জ্ঞান কভু না করিবা ! ১১১ ॥
Verse text
prabhu kahe, — ‘viṣṇu’ ‘viṣṇu’ ihā nā kahibā!
jīvādhame ‘kṛṣṇa’-jñāna kabhu nā karibā!
jīvādhame ‘kṛṣṇa’-jñāna kabhu nā karibā!
Synonyms
Translation
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately exclaimed, “Viṣṇu! Viṣṇu! Do not call Me the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A jīva cannot become Kṛṣṇa at any time. Do not even say such a thing!
Purport
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu immediately stated that a living being, however exalted he may be, should never be compared to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. All of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s preaching protests the monistic philosophy of the Māyāvāda school. The central point of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is that the jīva, the living entity, can never be accepted as Kṛṣṇa or Viṣṇu. This viewpoint is elaborated in the following verses.