CC Adi 4.16
The Lord’s desire to appear was born from two reasons:
- the Lord wanted
to taste the sweet essence of the mellows of love of God,
- and He wanted
to propagate devotional service in the world on the platform of
spontaneous attraction.
CC Ādi 4.230 "Desiring to understand the glory of Rādhārāṇī’s love, the wonderful
qualities in Him that She alone relishes through Her love, and 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 Śrīmatī Śacī-devī, as the moon appeared from the ocean.”
From the Introduction to Adi Chapter 4- 3 reasons for the Lord's appearance
In this chapter of the epic Caitanya-caritāmṛta,
Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has stressed that Lord Caitanya appeared for
three principal purposes of His own.
- The first purpose was to relish
the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, who is the prime reciprocator of
transcendental love of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Lord Kṛṣṇa is the reservoir of
transcendental loving transactions with Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. The subject
of those loving transactions is the Lord Himself, and Rādhārāṇī is the
object. Thus the subject, the Lord, wanted to relish the loving mellow
in the position of the object, Rādhārāṇī.
- The
second reason for His appearance was to understand the transcendental
mellow of Himself. Lord Kṛṣṇa is all sweetness. Rādhārāṇī’s attraction
for Kṛṣṇa is sublime, and to experience that attraction and understand
the transcendental sweetness of Himself, He accepted the mentality of
Rādhārāṇī.
- The third reason that Lord Caitanya
appeared was to enjoy the bliss tasted by Rādhārāṇī. The Lord thought
that undoubtedly Rādhārāṇī enjoyed His company and He enjoyed the
company of Rādhārāṇī, but the exchange of transcendental mellow between
the spiritual couple was more pleasing to Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī than to Śrī
Kṛṣṇa. Rādhārāṇī felt more transcendental pleasure in the company of
Kṛṣṇa than He could understand without taking Her position, but for Śrī
Kṛṣṇa to enjoy in the position of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī was impossible
because that position was completely foreign to Him. Kṛṣṇa is the
transcendental male, and Rādhārāṇī is the transcendental female.
Therefore, to know the transcendental pleasure of loving Kṛṣṇa, Lord
Kṛṣṇa Himself appeared as Lord Caitanya, accepting the emotions and
bodily luster of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī.
Lord
Caitanya appeared in order to fulfill these confidential desires, and
also to preach the special significance of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare
Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare
Hare and to answer the call of Advaita Prabhu. These were secondary
reasons.