This way we can understand how the Lord through his empowered representatives have staged the scene for Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s appearance as the Yuga-Avatar. First to annihilate the misuse of the Vedas, he appeared as Buddha, then after Buddha established non-violence, moral conduct, austerity, meditation, pure life, then the Lord was able to re-establish the Vedas but in order to do so he had to keep the same conclusion as the Buddhist and in the form of Lord Shiva, who is an expansion of Lord Narayana himself, he came and appeared in order to re-establish the conclusions of the Vedas. And then he appeared in his form of Ramanujacfarya, said it to be Lakshman incarnation, he came to establish the real essence of the Vedas, which was pure devotional service. You see Ramanujacarya was very strict, he considered the only valid evidence anywhere is in the shastra, not from inference anywhere else, only the shastra’ is the authority. In this way, he was able to keep right to the shastra and establish Narayana as the Supreme Absolute Truth, through the Upanishads, through the Vedas, through all of this. Especially he dealt with the Upanishads because he knew that the Upanishad and the Vedanta sutras is really the only scriptures that the staunch mayavadis accept as the highest truth. So Ramanujacarya did not deal so much with the Puranas, he did not make commentaries on Srimad Bhagvatam, although, he accepted it. Most of his teachings were on the basis of Upanishad’s and the Vedanta Sutra because that’s where he could really convince people of the truth of the Vedas and take away the illusions of Shankar’s teachings. So in this way, Ramanuja came to re-establish the principles of pure bhakti and then Madhavacarya came to establish the worship of Krishna and then Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to just bring them all together and just the final ultimate essence of all philosophy acintya-bhedäbheda-tattva and not only that but he has given within the field of acintya-bhedäbheda-tattva philosophy, the most purest, essential highest relationships that can be developed through the 5 rasas with Lord Sri Krishna in Goloka Vrindavan.
