In accordance with the needs of the times and for the welfare of the world, the supremely merciful Sri Bhagavan and His dear associates descend, bringing the gifts of their instructions. They drive far away all godless persons, whose atheistic thoughts are averse to dharma, and they establish sanatana dharma in the form of suddha-bhakti, which is the means for the eternal welfare of the jivas.

In the present yuga with its powerful influence of Kali, Sri Gaurasundara, the munificent incarnation of Kali-yuga, saves the fallen souls by bestowing prema (love of God) which had not been previously given. His followers, who are themselves in the line of Sri Svarupa Damodara and Rupa Gosvami, have appeared on this earth as Sri Gaurasundara’s potencies in the form of acaryas. They appear in order to immerse the ignorant jivas, who are intoxicated by materialism, in suddha prema-dharma (pure love of God).

Real knowledge of transcendental matters can never be obtained through the material senses, for Bhagavan, bhakti and the bhakta are all beyond the purview of sense perception. In this world one may be able to describe the character of literary, historic, political, munificent or moral personalities, along with their identity and circumstances of birth.

However, it is not possible to describe the character of a bhakta of Sri Bhagavan through the material senses, for bhaktas are perceived purely by their own mercy. We can only understand something about the extraordinary transcendental character of the bhaktas of Bhagavan when, by their grace, they display their character in the pure heart of a person devoted to the service of Bhagavan (sevonmukha).

Transcendental objects have no birth and death and no father and mother; this is true of Vaisnavas as well. They are not subject to birth and death, nor do they have worldly family, caste, or asrama. In this material world the Vaisnavas’ material situations are only a performance of prakata (manifested) and aprakata (unmanifested) pastimes. By the desire of Sri Bhagavan, Vaisnavas, or bhaktas appear in this world in some family or lineage, but the sastras forbid us to think that they have a material origin.