14.18
mahotsava kara, saba bolaha brahmana
aji dina bhala,--kariba nama-karana
SYNONYMS
mahotsava—a festival; kara—observe; saba—all; bolaha—call; brahmana—the brahmanas; aji—today; dina—day; bhala—auspicious; kariba—I shall perform; nama-karana—the name-giving ceremony "I propose to perform a name-giving ceremony.
We should observe a festival and call for the brahmanas because today is very auspicious.
PURPORT
It is a Vedic principle to observe a festival in connection with Narayana and brahmanas.
Giving a child a particular name is among the purificatory processes known as dasa-vidha-samskara, and on the day of such a ceremony one should observe a festival by worshiping Narayana and distributing prasada, chiefly among the brahmanas.
When Nilambara Cakravarti, Sacimata and Jagannatha Misra understood from the marks on the Lord’s lotus feet that the child Nimai was not an ordinary child but an incarnation of Narayana, they decided that on that very same day, which was very auspicious, they should observe a festival for His name-giving ceremony.
In this connection we can particularly see how an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is ascertained by His bodily symptoms, His activities and the prediction of the sastras.
By factual evidence a person can be accepted as an incarnation of God, not whimsically or by the votes of rascals and fools.
There have been many imitation incarnations in Bengal since the appearance of Lord Caitanya, but any impartial devotee or learned man can understand that Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was accepted as an incarnation of Krsna not on the basis of popular votes but by evidence from the sastras and bona fide scholars.
It was not ordinary men who accepted Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In the beginning His identity was ascertained by learned scholars like Nilambara Cakravarti, and later all His activities were confirmed by the six Gosvamis, especially Srila Jiva Gosvami and Srila Rupa Gosvami, and many other learned scholars, with evidence from the sastra.
An incarnation of God is such from the very beginning of His life.
It is not that by performing meditation one can become an incarnation of God all of a sudden.
Such false incarnations are meant for fools and rascals, not sane men.