Why is Parashurama mentioned in the Dashavatara stotra and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu not mentioned?

From Seema Saraogi:

If Parasuram was an empowered avatar, why is He counted in the Dasavatar and Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, being Krsna Himself, is not counted among the Dasavatar?

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Question from Seema Sarogi Mataji If Parshuram was an empowered avatar Why is he counted in Dasha Avatar And Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu being Krishna himself Is not counted among the Dasha Avatar Lord Parshuram is not Necessarily always an empowered avatar There are different Yugas Different Kalpas and sometimes He can manifest himself As directly The Supreme Lord Himself So Dasha Avatar Stotra Talks about Ten Dasha Avatar Stotra is composed by Jaydev Goswami And occurs at the start of His Devotional Classic Geeta Govinda Similarly there are references to Dasha Avatar In the Puranas also So in general Whenever a listing of the avatars is given In the scriptures Whenever the Lord Has performed any extraordinary Feat At that time Whether it is performed directly by him Or by a representative of him Who has been empowered by the Lord The concept of the avatar is such that There is a Chronological disruption There is a Listing of avatars At that time The philosophical levels Involving the analysis Of who is exactly What level of avatar Is usually not discussed over there If you look at the Srimad Bhagavatam itself Srimad Bhagavatam gives a list of avatars At several places In the Third chapter of the first canto It’s entitled Krishna is the source Of all incarnations There is a list of many avatars And while describing those avatars There is a description Of both Kinds of avatars Similarly In the second canto The seven chapters schedule incarnations With specific functions as described So even at that time also The incarnations are Described in a Mixed way When the particular listing of Incarnations is given, it is given more from a Functional point of view, it is not from an Ontological point of view Functional point of view means That this avatar comes at this point And does this particular Activity So ontological point of view means That in reality In existence, what is the level Of that particular avatar So when the scriptures Are Giving certain description Those descriptions have a context And that context determines the purpose of that Description So if we look at the Srimad Bhagavatam overall We will find that It is very clear by the time we come to the tenth canto Not Just by the number of chapters that are Devoted to Krishna, say there are Ninety chapters devoted just to This pastimes of Krishna out of a Total of 335 chapters, no other Incarnation has any way numbered This number of pastimes So it is very clear that Not just From the sheer number of chapters But also from the overall Flow of the Srimad Bhagavatam that Krishna Is revealed to be the highest as is Told in this particular chapter also in 1.3 In the first canto, but When the listing of the avatars Is given When Shukadev Goswami is glorifying Narasimhadev or Glorifying Shukar Varahadev Or glorifying Vamanadev He is not going to In one sense Interfere with the Rasa of that glorification By telling oh actually I am glorifying Vamanadev but he is not supreme Krishna is supreme, you remember that Actually that sort of differentiation is unnecessary Because when the narrations are going on It is for the sake of experiencing rasa So when the tattva is being Described, it will be Systematically analyzed And at that time it will become very clear At this avatar At this particular level This avatar is at that particular level So now The Avatar Systematic analysis Is Not necessarily given that this avatar Is of this level.
It is not necessarily Given when a listing of avatars is being Explained. When the listing is Being done, at that time the primary purpose Is to describe their prominent function So if you want to understand The analytical position of the avatars Then we have to look elsewhere Where the focus is on tattva So Srila Rupa Goswami Has Extensively researched the Puranas And on the basis Of that research of the Puranas, he has compiled A book called the Laghu Bhagwat Amrit And the Laghu Bhagwat Amrit is practically a book of Avatar science That means it describes Systematically classifying the various kinds of Avatars and explaining this avatar is at this level This avatar is at this level And he of course gives scriptural Codes for all that But the The The important point is that He is Devoting that book Not for Not for describing the past times But Analyzing the ontological levels So when that is the focus Then the various levels will be talked about So dashavataras are Focused on because They have done especially extraordinary things And That’s why there may be a special listing Of the dashavataras Like in Jayadeva Goswami’s list Or somewhere else, wherever it might be In some of the Puranas But the important point is that That is more from the Functional point of view, what all extraordinary Activities they have done The selection of dashavataras As a listing Is not necessarily based on any Specific analysis Of their Ontological levels So Regarding the second part Of the question Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Is a channa avatar Channa kalavya dabhavastri Yugothasattam In the Srimad Bhagavatam, 7th Canto, 9th Chapter When Prahlad Maharaj is offering prayers To Narasimhadev At that time he describes That you come in Three yugas and that’s why you are called As triyugi But immediately he clarifies that that doesn’t mean That you don’t come in the other yuga In the Kali Yuga You come as channa Kalavya dabhavastri Yugothasattam, so you are called triyugi It is said that You come only in three yugas, that’s how you Get the name triyugi But he is clarifying that there is not the actual understanding Of triyugi The understanding of triyugi is that You come in Kalavya, in Kali Yuga As a channa avakar So Hidden incarnation Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s incarnation is very special In the sense that He is God but he is not Claiming to be God He is not proclaiming himself to be God And rather He is coming in Kali Yuga to teach People how to worship The Supreme Lord So because he is Coming for that specific purpose So prominently He assumes the role of a devotee There are certainly A number of occasions Where he does display his divinity Especially among his intimate associates And there are scriptural references Also There is a full Chaitanya Upanishad which is a part of the Shruti Vedas And on the site itself there are some 24 references which are given From various sources which talk about how Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s divinity is mentioned in the scriptures But It is not explicitly proclaimed directly Because His purpose was not so much To Proclaim his divinity as to Get people to practice Devotional service and not just Instruct them to practice devotional service But to instruct by example To himself Exemplify devotional service So therefore Because of this special function that He is performing That he is acting as a devotee And he is acting as a devotee for all of eternity In the sense that it is not just a function that he assumes In this world Even in the spiritual world Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Is Eternally practicing devotional service So Because that is his Both manifested role In the material world and eternal role in the spiritual world Where In Navadvip he is actually eternally Doing kirtan and relishing The names of Krishna And the revelations of Krishna So he is God who is eternally In the role of a devotee of the Lord So because of this His divinity is not explicitly mentioned In the scriptures And that’s why in the Dasavatar Stotra Which is a Extremely abbreviated list of Incarnations, his name doesn’t come But Dasavatar Is by no means an Exhaustive list Bhagavatam itself gives many more avatars For example the first canto Third chapter gives around 30 avatars And there itself it says the number of incarnations Is innumerable It is as numerous as The waves in the ocean So therefore Dasavatar Is a list which has importance Both because of Its scriptural and traditional Popularity But that doesn’t mean That that is a Either an exhaustive list Or nor does it necessarily mean that It is a list that is Indicative of the most important Incarnations in terms of Their ontological status In the spiritual world It is a list of 10 manifesting of the Lord who are especially Prominent in the kind Of roles that they played in this world