Vedānta does not recognize the Incarnation of God. According to it, Chaitanyadeva is only a bubble of the non-dual Brahman.
Do you know what the vision of Divine Consciousness is like? It is like the sudden illumination of a dark room when a match is struck.
The Incarnation of God is accepted by those who follow the path of bhakti. A woman belonging to the Kartabhaja sect observed my condition, and remarked: 'You have inner realization. Don't dance and sing too much. Ripe grapes must be preserved carefully in cotton. The mother-in-law lessens her daughter-in-law's activities when the daughter-in-law is with child. One characteristic of God-realization is that the activities of a man with such realization gradually drop away. Inside this man [meaning Sri Ramakrishna] is the real Jewel.'
Watching me eat, she remarked, 'Sir, are you yourself eating, or are you feeding someone else?'
- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 307 (16 October 1883)
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