When Lord Chaitanya hid his divinity, why do devotees broadcast his divinity?

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thank you question when lord Chaitanya is known as the channa avatar the hidden avatar then why don’t devotees let him stay hidden why do devotees glorify him as the supreme lord answer every term has its meaning in context let’s consider what was the point of lord Chaitanya appearing as a channa avatar the point was that at that time in India there was impersonalism and its many mutants that were spreading wherein it had become almost like a trend that any person who was a great spiritual teacher that followers would make that person into god or that person would himself claim to be god so maha prabhu didn’t want to contribute in any way or trigger this trend also he has come specifically in the mood of Radharani Krishna coming in the mood of Radharani to relish that transcendental love and also he comes to demonstrate how one is to practice bhakti and therefore for those purposes it is the lord’s natural humility that he does not emphasize his divinity at the same time the point was that the lord did not seek to give authority to his message by by resorting to his divinity he focused simply on attracting people to bhakti by the sweetness of bhakti by the gloriousness of his example as a bhakta as a pure devotee given a bhakta so it is the nature of love that when we love someone we naturally want to glorify that person so when the lord was with his devotees it was the love of the lord that he focused the glorification on krishna and on the devotees of krishna he never claimed that anyone was his devotee sometimes his devotees would use that word but it is also the love of the devotees that the devotees want to glorify the lord so the magnitude of the compassion of the lord the magnitude of the love of the lord becomes clear when we understand him not just as a devotee but also as a lord playing the role of a devotee those who consider him to be simply a great saint a great sanyasi they also get benefited by his example but those who appreciate his divinity and then appreciate his playing the role of devotee gain a far greater appreciation and attraction towards him so it is not so much to defy the lord that the devotees glorify lord chaitanya but is more to inspire attraction towards him in the hearts of everyone a bhaktan thakur in his book adopts an integrated approach where he says in his introduction in the book about lord chaitanya he says that as far as the devotees are concerned as far as vaishnavas are concerned he uses those terms interchangeably they have accepted that chaitanya is non different from krishna but we leave the question of his identity to our esteemed readers to decide what is important is not the status of chaitanya but the gift of love that he is giving ultimately it is that experience of love for adoption of the process of bhakti which will give us the experience of love that is more important and to enhance the following of that the devotees talk about his divinity also so basically lord chaitanya didn’t want personal glorification of himself as god and that’s why during his times while he was manifest on the earth he was not usually glorified as the supreme but that was not something which he ever clearly mandated that nobody should ever even after his departure from the world not talk about his divinity so the devotees sometimes seem to go against the word of the lord but that is simply to fulfill at a deeper level the purpose of the lord they are the first class second class third class devotees as they say the third level devotee doesn’t even follow the instruction the second level follows the letter of the instruction and doesn’t even think about the purpose the first level focuses on the purpose and like following the spirit of the law sometimes may require suspending the letter of the law so in that sense the devotees suspend maha prabhu’s statement that he should not be glorified as lord so that his mission can be