advaita-ÄcÄrya-gosÄñi sÄká¹£Ät Ä«Å›vara
prabhu guru kari' mÄne, tiá¹…ho ta' kiá¹…kara
advaita-ÄcÄrya - Advaita Ä€cÄrya; gosÄñi - the Lord; sÄká¹£Ät Ä«Å›vara - directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prabhu - Lord ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu; guru kari' mÄne - accepts Him as His teacher; tiá¹…ho ta' kiá¹…kara - but He is the servant.
Lord Advaita Ä€cÄrya is directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Although Lord Caitanya accepts Him as His preceptor, Advaita Ä€cÄrya is a servant of the Lord.
Lord Caitanya always offered respects to Advaita Prabhu as He would to His father because Advaita was even older than His father; yet Advaita Prabhu always considered Himself a servant of Lord Caitanya. ÅšrÄ« Advaita Prabhu and Īśvara PurÄ«, Lord Caitanya’s spiritual master, were both disciples of MÄdhavendra PurÄ«, who was also the spiritual master of NityÄnanda Prabhu. Thus Advaita Prabhu, as Lord Caitanya’s spiritual uncle, was always to be respected because one should respect one’s spiritual master’s Godbrothers as one respects one’s spiritual master. Because of all these considerations, ÅšrÄ« Advaita Prabhu was superior to Lord Caitanya, yet Advaita Prabhu considered Himself Lord Caitanya’s subordinate.
