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The External Reasons for Lord Caitanya's Appearance

Cc Ādi 3.81
Text
antaḥ kṛṣṇaṁ bahir gauraṁ
darśitāṅgādi-vaibhavam
kalau saṅkīrtanādyaiḥ sma
kṛṣṇa-caitanyam āśritāḥ
Synonyms

antaḥ-internally; kṛṣṇam-Lord Kṛṣṇa; bahiḥ-externally; gauram-fair-colored; darśita-displayed; aṅga-limbs; ādi-beginning with; vaibhavam-expansions; kalau-in the Age of Kali; saṅkīrtana-ādyaiḥ-by congregational chanting, etc.; sma-certainly; kṛṣṇa-caitanyam-unto Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu; āśritāḥ-sheltered.

Translation

"I take shelter of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is outwardly of a fair complexion but is inwardly Kṛṣṇa Himself. In this Age of Kali He displays His expansions [His aṅgas and upāṅgas] by performing congregational chanting of the holy name of the Lord."

Purport

Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has placed the verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam quoted in text 52 (kṛṣṇa-varṇaṁ tviṣākṛṣṇam) as the auspicious introduction to his Bhāgavata-sandarbha, or Ṣaṭ-sandarbha. He has composed this text (81), which is, in effect, an explanation of the Bhāgavatam verse, as the second verse of the same work. The verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was enunciated by Karabhājana, one of the nine great sages, and it is elaborately explained by the Sarva-saṁvādinī, Jīva Gosvāmī's commentary on his own Ṣaṭ-sandarbha.