Ādi-līlā

Chapter 4: The Confidential Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance

Verse 9 of 262
Cc Ādi 4.9

কিন্তু কৃষ্ণের যেই হয অবতারকাল ভারহরণকাল তাতে হৈল মিশাল

किन्तु कृष्णेर येइ हय अवतारकाल भारहरणकाल ताते हैल मिशाल

kintu kṛṣṇera yei haya avatāra-kāla bhāra-haraṇa-kāla tāte ha-ila miśāla

Synonyms

kintubut; kṛṣṇeraof Lord Kṛṣṇa; yeithat which; hayais; avatāraof incarnation; kālathe time; bhāra-haraṇaof taking away the burden; kālathe time; tātein that; ha-ilathere was; miśālamixture..

Translation

But the time to lift the burden of the world mixed with the time for Lord Kṛṣṇa's incarnation.

Purport

We have information from Bhagavad-gītā that the Lord appears at particular intervals to adjust a time-worn spiritual culture. Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared at the end of Dvāpara-yuga to regenerate the spiritual culture of human society and also to manifest His transcendental pastimes. Viṣṇu is the authorized Lord who maintains the created cosmos, and He is also the principal Deity who makes adjustments for improper administration in the cosmic creation. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord, and He appears not to make such administrative adjustments but only to exhibit His transcendental pastimes and thus attract the fallen souls back home, back to Godhead. However, the time for administrative rectification and the time for Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa's appearance coincided at the end of the last Dvāpara-yuga. Therefore when Śrī Kṛṣṇa appeared, Viṣṇu, the Lord of maintenance, also merged in Him because all the plenary portions and parts of the absolute Personality of Godhead merge in Him during His appearance.

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