krama kari' - dividing according to grades; kahe prabhu - Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu spoke; vaiṣṇava-lakṣaṇa - the symptoms of Vaiṣṇavas; vaiṣṇava - the ordinary Vaiṣṇava (the positive platform); vaiṣṇava-tara - the better Vaiṣṇava (the comparative platform); āra - and; vaiṣṇava-tama - the best Vaiṣṇava (the superlative platform).

In this way, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught the distinctions between different types of Vaiṣṇavas — the Vaiṣṇava, Vaiṣṇavatara and Vaiṣṇavatama. He thus successively explained all the symptoms of a Vaiṣṇava to the inhabitants of Kulīna-grāma.