Why do both Krishna and Lord Chaitanya appear in Vaivasvata Manu’s period?
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that we see in vaivaswapmanu’s times the rama, krishna and chaitanya mahato all of them appear so is there any reason why vaivaswapmanu was specially favored the bhagavatam itself does not describe any specific reason and the bhagavatam starts off by describing that there are unlimited avatars of the lord describes that there are as many incarnations as there are waves in the ocean so that’s right in the first canto itself the point is that krishna he is love for us is unlimited and that’s why the point is that he comes again and again and again in various times to manifest his mercy to us this is one of the defining differences between the vedic tradition and other religions other religions also ultimately help us to connect with god but often they try to reserve or restrict god’s grace to only one particular incarnation or one particular descendant so then jesus is the only one so before you know from the times of abraham there was the idea that some incarnation is going to come some savior is going to come so when moses came those who accepted moses as the savior they are considered jesus they are considered jews and afterwards when jesus came those who accepted jesus as the savior they are considered christians and those who thought that no jesus is not the savior mohammed is the savior so they are the muslims so when mohammed came he saw everybody is somebody else is coming and that person is saying i am the savior so mohammed said i will end this he said i am the last savior no more savior so the point which i am making is in these traditions there is revelation of god but the revelation of god is often restricted to one particular incarnation or one particular not necessarily incarnation one particular messenger or one particular son or whoever but that is not the mood of the vedas god’s grace is unlimited and that’s why it comes again and again in various manifestations so yes so in every manvantara there is satyuga, teta yuga, dvapari, kali yuga and in fact this happens several times within each manvantara also and there are avatars that appear at particular times so yes krishna and chetan mahaprabhu are specially merciful no doubt but there is there are avatars which appear in each manvantara each yuga and these are called yuga avatars and so the point is krishna’s mercy is available at all times at the same time by his will because he is a person he has his own free will and he has his own choice so by his choice he appears at particular times now whether krishna’s appearing in vaivasvat manho or chetan mahaprabhu’s appearing in vaivasvat manho is a special favor because of some advance bhakti of vaivasvat manho that is not mentioned because if you look at the interactions of past times of krishna or chetan mahaprabhu there is no interaction with vaivasvat manho that are described so in that sense it is not specifically if you look at the past times of what we know it is not specifically because of any special bhakti of vaivasvat manho that the lord manifested during this times because it is not that he offered any special prayers, it is described for example in kulki’s prayer because to please yadu in his dynasty the lord appeared but there are no such prayers offered that to please vaivasvat manho during his time the lord appeared so that means this mercy is causeless it is not specifically because of vaivasvat manho’s any special bhakti it is just causeless so this is just the nature of the lord krishna descended 5000 years ago now those who intimately associate with krishna some of them are directly associates but some happened to be there at that time it is their fortune but is it that every person who was present on the earth 5000 years ago was a special soul not necessarily there are some souls who are special actually mishra chakrakar was in elaborate analysis of this some souls are eternal associates some souls are spiritually evolved beings who get an opportunity to associate with exalted devotees by being born at the time when the lord descends he is especially analyzing about the gopis of vrindavan they themselves are of different categories and some are just fortunate so when krishna for example is traveling from say indraprastha to dwarka he is going along the way and so many people get to see him it is not that all the people who are living in all those parts were necessarily advanced souls who were born at that particular time, it is just fortune so there is an element of causelessness in the mercy of the lord when he manifests in his descent so that same element of causelessness applies to how the lord manifested his special manifestations in the paiva suryam mantra