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<div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2>
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<div id="CC_Preface_and_Introduction" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Preface and Introduction"><h3>CC Preface and Introduction</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Preface|CC Preface]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Before accepting sannyāsa (the renounced order), Lord Caitanya was known as Viśvambhara. The word viśvambhara refers to one who maintains the entire universe and who leads all living entities. This maintainer and leader appeared as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya to give humanity these sublime teachings.</p>
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<div id="CCIntroduction_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Preface_and_Introduction" book="CC" index="5" link="CC Introduction" link_text="CC Introduction">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Introduction|CC Introduction]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu officially renounced this illusion at the age of twenty-four, although His wife was sixteen and His mother seventy and He was the only male in the family. Although He was a brāhmaṇa and was not rich, He took sannyāsa, the renounced order of life, and thus extricated Himself from family entanglement.</p>
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<div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.57|CC Adi 1.57, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">This verse is from the Kṛṣṇa-karṇāmṛta, which was written by a great Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī named Bilvamaṅgala Ṭhākura, who is also known as Līlāśuka. He intensely desired to enter into the eternal pastimes of the Lord, and he lived at Vṛndāvana for seven hundred years in the vicinity of Brahma-kuṇḍa, a still-existing bathing tank in Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi25_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="110" link="CC Adi 2.5" link_text="CC Adi 2.5">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.5|CC Adi 2.5, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Furthermore, Lord Caitanya is also the master of all wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation because He is Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. He is described as pūrṇa, or complete. In the feature of Lord Caitanya, the Lord is an ideal renouncer, just as Śrī Rāma was an ideal king. Lord Caitanya accepted the order of sannyāsa and exemplified exceedingly wonderful principles in His own life. No one can compare to Him in the order of sannyāsa. Although in Kali-yuga acceptance of the sannyāsa order is generally forbidden, Lord Caitanya accepted it because He is complete in renunciation. Others cannot imitate Him but can only follow in His footsteps as far as possible. Those who are unfit for this order of life are strictly forbidden by the injunctions of the śāstras to accept it. Lord Caitanya, however, is complete in renunciation as well as all other opulences. He is therefore the highest principle of the Absolute Truth.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi217_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="122" link="CC Adi 2.17" link_text="CC Adi 2.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 2.17|CC Adi 2.17, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Naked saints and sannyāsīs who undergo severe physical penances, who can raise the semen to the brain, and who are completely equipoised in Brahman can live in the realm known as Brahmaloka."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.8|CC Adi 3.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">A Bengali translation of this book was compiled by the great professor of astronomy and mathematics Bimal Prasād Datta, later known as Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī, who was our merciful spiritual master. He was honored with the title Siddhānta Sarasvatī for translating the Sūrya-siddhānta, and the title Gosvāmī Mahārāja was added when he accepted sannyāsa, the renounced order of life.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi334_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="260" link="CC Adi 3.34" link_text="CC Adi 3.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.34|CC Adi 3.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Some so-called Vaiṣṇavas say that the renounced order of life was not accepted in the Vaiṣṇava sampradāya, or disciplic succession, until Lord Caitanya. This is not a very intelligent proposition. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu took the sannyāsa order from Śrīpāda Keśava Bhāratī, who belonged to the Śaṅkara sect, which approves of only ten names for sannyāsīs. Long before the advent of Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya, however, the sannyāsa order existed in the Vaiṣṇava line of Viṣṇu Svāmī. In the Viṣṇu Svāmī Vaiṣṇava sampradāya, there are ten different kinds of sannyāsa names and 108 different names for sannyāsīs who accept the tri-daṇḍa, the triple staff of sannyāsa. This is approved by the Vedic rules. Therefore Vaiṣṇava sannyāsa was existent even before the appearance of Śaṅkarācārya, although those who know nothing about Vaiṣṇava sannyāsa unnecessarily declare that there is no sannyāsa in the Vaiṣṇava sampradāya.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.34|CC Adi 3.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">During the time of Lord Caitanya, the influence of Śaṅkarācārya in society was very strong. People thought that one could accept sannyāsa only in the disciplic succession of Śaṅkarācārya. Lord Caitanya could have performed His missionary activities as a householder, but He found householder life an obstruction to His mission. Therefore He decided to accept the renounced order, sannyāsa. Since His acceptance of sannyāsa was also designed to attract public attention, Lord Caitanya, not wishing to disturb the social convention, took the renounced order of life from a sannyāsī in the disciplic succession of Śaṅkarācārya, although sannyāsa was also sanctioned in the Vaiṣṇava sampradāya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi334_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="260" link="CC Adi 3.34" link_text="CC Adi 3.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.34|CC Adi 3.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Śaṅkara-sampradāya there are ten different names awarded to sannyāsīs: (1) Tīrtha, (2) Āśrama, (3) Vana, (4) Araṇya, (5) Giri, (6) Parvata, (7) Sāgara, (8) Sarasvatī, (9) Bhāratī and (10) Purī. Before one enters sannyāsa, he has one of the various names for a brahmacārī, the assistant to a sannyāsī. Sannyāsīs with the titles Tīrtha and Āśrama generally stay at Dvārakā, and their brahmacārī name is Svarūpa. Those known by the names Vana and Araṇya stay at Puruṣottama, or Jagannātha Purī, and their brahmacārī name is Prakāśa. Those with the names Giri, Parvata and Sāgara generally stay at Badarikāśrama, and their brahmacārī name is Ānanda. Those with the titles Sarasvatī, Bhāratī and Purī usually live at Śṛṅgerī in South India, and their brahmacārī name is Caitanya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi334_7" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="260" link="CC Adi 3.34" link_text="CC Adi 3.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.34|CC Adi 3.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya established four monasteries in India, in the four directions (north, south, east and west), and he entrusted them to four sannyāsīs who were his disciples. Now there are hundreds of branch monasteries under these four principal monasteries, and although there is an official symmetry among them, there are many differences in their dealings. The four different sects of these monasteries are known as Ānandavāra, Bhogavāra, Kīṭavāra and Bhūmivāra, and in course of time they have developed different ideas and different slogans.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.34|CC Adi 3.34, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the regulation of the disciplic succession, one who wishes to enter the renounced order in Śaṅkara's sect must first be trained as a brahmacārī under a bona fide sannyāsī, The brahmacārī’s name is ascertained according to the group to which the sannyāsī belongs. Lord Caitanya accepted sannyāsa from Keśava Bhāratī. When He first approached Keśava Bhāratī, He was accepted as a brahmacārī with the name Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Brahmacārī. After He took sannyāsa, He preferred to keep the name Kṛṣṇa Caitanya.</p>
<p>The great authorities in the disciplic succession had not offered to explain why Lord Caitanya refused to take the name Bhāratī after He took sannyāsa from a Bhāratī, until Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja volunteered the explanation that because a sannyāsī in the Śaṅkara-sampradāya thinks that he has become the Supreme, Lord Caitanya, wanting to avoid such a misconception, kept the name Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, placing Himself as an eternal servitor. A brahmacārī is supposed to serve the spiritual master; therefore He did not negate that relationship of servitude to His spiritual master. Accepting such a position is favorable for the relationship between the disciple and the spiritual master.</p>
<p>The authentic biographies also mention that Lord Caitanya accepted the daṇḍa (rod) and begging pot, symbolic of the sannyāsa order, at the time He took sannyāsa.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi349_9" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="275" link="CC Adi 3.49" link_text="CC Adi 3.49">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.49|CC Adi 3.49, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"In His early pastimes He appears as a householder with a golden complexion. His limbs are beautiful, and His body, smeared with the pulp of sandalwood, seems like molten gold. In His later pastimes He accepts the sannyāsa order, and He is equipoised and peaceful. He is the highest abode of peace and devotion, for He silences the impersonalist nondevotees."</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.49|CC Adi 3.49, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya accepted sannyāsa, leaving aside His householder life, to preach His mission. He has equanimity in different senses. First, He describes the confidential truth of the Personality of Godhead, and second, He satisfies everyone by knowledge and attachment to Kṛṣṇa. He is peaceful because He renounces all topics not related to the service of Kṛṣṇa. Śrīla Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa has explained that the word niṣṭhā indicates His being rigidly fixed in chanting the holy name of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Lord Caitanya subdued all disturbing opponents of devotional service, especially the monists, who are actually averse to the personal feature of the Supreme Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi358_11" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="284" link="CC Adi 3.58" link_text="CC Adi 3.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 3.58|CC Adi 3.58, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"By performing the sacrifice of congregational chanting of the holy name, learned scholars in the Age of Kali worship Lord Kṛṣṇa, who is now nonblackish because of the great upsurge of the feelings of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. He is the only worshipable Deity for the paramahaṁsas, who have attained the highest stage of the fourth order (sannyāsa). May that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Caitanya, show us His great causeless mercy."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This verse is Dvitīya Śrī Caitanyāṣṭaka 1, from the Stava-mālā of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.105|CC Adi 4.105, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Prior to the Lord's acceptance of the renounced order, Puruṣottama Bhaṭṭācārya, a resident of Navadvīpa, desired to enter the renounced order of life. Therefore he left home and went to Benares, where he accepted the position of brahmacarya from a Māyāvādī sannyāsī. When he became a brahmacārī, he was given the name Śrī Dāmodara Svarūpa. He left Benares shortly thereafter, without taking sannyāsa, and he came to Nīlācala, Jagannātha Purī, where Lord Caitanya was staying.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi4189_13" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="519" link="CC Adi 4.189" link_text="CC Adi 4.189">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.189|CC Adi 4.189, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The situation of the gopīs is perplexing, for although they did not want personal happiness, it was imposed upon them. The solution to this perplexity is that Śrī Kṛṣṇa's sense of happiness is limited by the happiness of the gopīs. Devotees at Vṛndāvana therefore try to serve the gopīs, namely Rādhārāṇī and Her associates. If one gains the favor of the gopīs, he easily gains the favor of Kṛṣṇa because on the recommendation of the gopīs Kṛṣṇa at once accepts the service of a devotee. Lord Caitanya, therefore, wanted to please the gopīs instead of Kṛṣṇa. But His contemporaries misunderstood Him, and for this reason Lord Caitanya renounced the order of householder life and became a sannyāsī.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.132|CC Adi 5.132, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In whatever form one knows the Lord, one speaks of Him in that way. In this there is no falsity, since everything is possible in Kṛṣṇa.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>In this connection we may mention an incident that took place between two of our sannyāsīs while we were preaching the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra in Hyderabad. One of them stated that "Hare Rāma" refers to Śrī Balarāma, and the other protested that "Hare Rāma" means Lord Rāma. Ultimately the controversy came to me, and I gave the decision that if someone says that the "Rāma" in "Hare Rāma" is Lord Rāmacandra and someone else says that the "Rāma" in "Hare Rāma" is Śrī Balarāma, both are correct because there is no difference between Śrī Balarāma and Lord Rāma. Here in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta we find that Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī has stated the same conclusion:</p>
:yei yei rūpe jāne, sei tāhā kahe
:sakala sambhave kṛṣṇe, kichu mithyā nahe
<p>If someone calls Lord Rāmacandra by the vibration Hare Rāma, understanding it to mean "O Lord Rāmacandra!" he is quite right. Similarly, if one says that Hare Rāma means "O Śrī Balarāma!" he is also right. Those who are aware of the viṣṇu-tattva do not fight over all these details.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.149|CC Adi 5.149, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Among the sannyāsīs of the Śaṅkara-sampradāya there are different names for brahmacārīs. Each sannyāsī has some assistants, known as brahmacārīs, who are called by different names according to the names of the sannyāsī. Among such brahmacārīs there are four names: Svarūpa, Ānanda, Prakāśa and Caitanya. Nityānanda Prabhu maintained Himself as a brahmacārī; He never took sannyāsa. As a brahmacārī His name was Nityānanda Svarūpa, and therefore the sannyāsī under whom He was living must have been from the tīrthas or āśramas of the Śaṅkara-sampradāya, because one of the names for the assistant brahmacārī of such a sannyāsī is Svarūpa.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi5203_16" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="804" link="CC Adi 5.203" link_text="CC Adi 5.203">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.203|CC Adi 5.203, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Another famous book by Sanātana Gosvāmī is the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, which states the rules and regulations for all divisions of Vaiṣṇavas, namely, Vaiṣṇava householders, Vaiṣṇava brahmacārīs, Vaiṣṇava vānaprasthas and Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs. This book was especially written, however, for Vaiṣṇava householders.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi723_17" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="971" link="CC Adi 7.23" link_text="CC Adi 7.23">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.23|CC Adi 7.23, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are some rascals who dare to speak against the mission of Lord Caitanya by criticizing the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement for accepting Europeans and Americans as brāhmaṇas and offering them sannyāsa. But here is an authoritative statement that in distributing love of Godhead one should not consider whether the recipients are Europeans, Americans, Hindus, Muslims, etc. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should be spread wherever possible, and one should accept those who thus become Vaiṣṇavas as being greater than brāhmaṇas, Hindus or Indians. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu desired that His name be spread in each and every town and village on the surface of the globe. Therefore, when the cult of Caitanya Mahāprabhu is spread all over the world, should those who embrace it not be accepted as Vaiṣṇavas, brāhmaṇas and sannyāsīs? These foolish arguments are sometimes raised by envious rascals, but Kṛṣṇa conscious devotees do not care about them. We strictly follow the principles set down by the Pañca-tattva.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.24|CC Adi 7.24, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement was started single-handedly, and no one provided for our livelihood, but at present we are spending hundreds and thousands of dollars all over the world, and the movement is increasing more and more. Thus there is no question of scarcity. Although jealous persons may be envious, if we stick to our principles and follow in the footsteps of the Pañca-tattva, this movement will go on unchecked by imitation svāmīs, sannyāsīs, religionists, philosophers or scientists, for it is transcendental to all material considerations. Therefore those who propagate the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement should not be afraid of such rascals and fools.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi726_19" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="974" link="CC Adi 7.26" link_text="CC Adi 7.26">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.26|CC Adi 7.26, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement will inundate the entire world and drown everyone, whether one be a gentleman, a rogue or even lame, invalid or blind.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Here again it may be emphasized that although jealous rascals protest that Europeans and Americans cannot be given the sacred thread or sannyāsa, there is no need even to consider whether one is a gentleman or a rogue because this is a spiritual movement which is not concerned with the external body of skin and bones. Because it is being properly conducted under the guidance of the Pañca-tattva, strictly following the regulative principles, it has nothing to do with external impediments.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi727_20" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="975" link="CC Adi 7.27" link_text="CC Adi 7.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.27|CC Adi 7.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Instead of being envious that Kṛṣṇa consciousness is spreading all over the world by the grace of Lord Caitanya, those who are jealous should be happy, as indicated here by the words parama ullāsa. But because they are kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs or prākṛta-bhaktas (materialistic devotees who are not advanced in spiritual knowledge), they are envious instead of happy, and they try to find faults in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Yet Śrīmat Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī writes in his Caitanya-candrāmṛta that when influenced by Lord Caitanya's Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, materialists become averse to talking about their wives and children, supposedly learned scholars give up their tedious studies of Vedic literature, yogīs give up their impractical practices of mystic yoga, ascetics give up their austere activities of penance and austerity, and sannyāsīs give up their study of Sāṅkhya philosophy. Thus they are all attracted by the bhakti-yoga practices of Lord Caitanya and cannot relish a mellow superior to that of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi728_21" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="976" link="CC Adi 7.28" link_text="CC Adi 7.28">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.28|CC Adi 7.28, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is not stereotyped or stagnant. It will spread all over the world in spite of all objections by fools and rascals that European and American mlecchas cannot be accepted as brāhmaṇas or sannyāsīs. Here it is indicated that this process will spread and inundate the entire world with Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.33|CC Adi 7.33, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus the Lord accepted the sannyāsa order of life after full consideration.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>There was no need for Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to accept sannyāsa, for He is God Himself and therefore has nothing to do with the material bodily concept of life. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not identify Himself with any of the eight varṇas and āśramas, namely, brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacārī, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. He identified Himself as the Supreme Spirit. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, or for that matter any pure devotee, never identifies with these social and spiritual divisions of life, for a devotee is always transcendental to these different gradations of society. Nevertheless, Lord Caitanya decided to accept sannyāsa on the grounds that when He became a sannyāsī everyone would show Him respect and in that way be favored. Although there was actually no need for Him to accept sannyāsa, He did so for the benefit of those who might think Him an ordinary human being. The main purpose of His accepting sannyāsa was to deliver the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs. This will be evident later in this chapter.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi733_23" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="979" link="CC Adi 7.33" link_text="CC Adi 7.33">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.33|CC Adi 7.33, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The kutārkikas, nindakas, pāṣaṇḍīs and adhama paḍuyās all avoided the benefit of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's movement of developing love of Godhead. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu felt compassion for them, and it is for this reason that He decided to accept the sannyāsa order, for by seeing Him as a sannyāsī they would offer Him respects. The sannyāsa order is still respected in India. Indeed, the very dress of a sannyāsī still commands respect from the Indian public. Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa to facilitate preaching His devotional cult, although otherwise He had no need to accept the fourth order of spiritual life.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi734_24" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="980" link="CC Adi 7.34" link_text="CC Adi 7.34">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.34|CC Adi 7.34, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu remained in householder life for twenty-four years, and on the verge of His twenty-fifth year He accepted the sannyāsa order.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>There are four orders of spiritual life, namely, brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa, and in each of these āśramas there are four divisions. The divisions of the brahmacarya-āśrama are sāvitrya, prājāpatya, brāhma and bṛhat, and the divisions of the gṛhasthāśrama are vārtā (professionals), sañcaya (accumulators), śālīna (those who do not ask anything from anyone) and śiloñchana (those who collect grains from the paddy fields). Similarly, the divisions of the vānaprastha-āśrama are vaikhānasa, vālakhilya, auḍumbara and pheṇapa, and the divisions of sannyāsa are kuṭīcaka, bahūdaka, haṁsa and niṣkriya. There are two kinds of sannyāsīs, who are called dhīras and narottamas, as stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (1.13.26–27). At the end of the month of January in the year 1432 śakābda (A.D. 1510), Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the sannyāsa order from Keśava Bhāratī, who belonged to the Śaṅkara-sampradāya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi735_25" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="981" link="CC Adi 7.35" link_text="CC Adi 7.35">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.35|CC Adi 7.35, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After accepting the sannyāsa order, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu attracted the attention of all those who had evaded Him, beginning with the logicians.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi737_26" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="983" link="CC Adi 7.37" link_text="CC Adi 7.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.37|CC Adi 7.37, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">An ācārya should devise a means by which people may somehow or other come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. First they should become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and all the prescribed rules and regulations may later gradually be introduced. In our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we follow this policy of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. For example, since boys and girls in the Western countries freely intermingle, special concessions regarding their customs and habits are necessary to bring them to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. The ācārya must devise a means to bring them to devotional service. Therefore, although I am a sannyāsī I sometimes take part in getting boys and girls married, although in the history of sannyāsa no sannyāsī has personally taken part in marrying his disciples.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi740_27" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="986" link="CC Adi 7.40" link_text="CC Adi 7.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.40|CC Adi 7.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">While Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was passing through Vārāṇasī on His way to Vṛndāvana, the Māyāvādī sannyāsī philosophers blasphemed against Him in many ways.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi741_28" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="987" link="CC Adi 7.41" link_text="CC Adi 7.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.41|CC Adi 7.41, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The blasphemers said, "Although a sannyāsī, He does not take interest in the study of Vedānta but instead always engages in chanting and dancing in saṅkīrtana."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi741_29" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="987" link="CC Adi 7.41" link_text="CC Adi 7.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.41|CC Adi 7.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Māyāvādī sannyāsīs neither chant nor dance. Their technical objection is that this method of chanting and dancing is called tauryatrika, which indicates that a sannyāsī should completely avoid such activities and engage his time in the study of Vedānta. Actually, such men do not understand what is meant by Vedānta.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi741_30" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="987" link="CC Adi 7.41" link_text="CC Adi 7.41">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.41|CC Adi 7.41, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Māyāvādīs' accusation that devotees do not study Vedānta is false. The Māyāvādīs do not know that chanting, dancing and preaching the principles of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, called bhāgavata-dharma, are the same as studying Vedānta. Since they think that reading Vedānta philosophy is the only function of a sannyāsī and they did not find Caitanya Mahāprabhu engaged in such direct study, they criticized the Lord. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has given special stress to the study of Vedānta philosophy: vedānta-vākyeṣu sadā ramantaḥ kaupīnavantaḥ khalu bhāgyavantaḥ. "A sannyāsī, accepting the renounced order very strictly and wearing nothing more than a loincloth, should always enjoy the philosophical statements in the Vedānta-sūtra. Such a person in the renounced order is to be considered very fortunate." The Māyāvādīs in Vārāṇasī blasphemed Lord Caitanya because His behavior did not follow these principles. Lord Caitanya, however, bestowed His mercy upon these Māyāvādī sannyāsīs and delivered them by means of His Vedānta discourses with Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi742_31" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="988" link="CC Adi 7.42" link_text="CC Adi 7.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.42|CC Adi 7.42, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"This Caitanya Mahāprabhu is an illiterate sannyāsī and therefore does not know His real function. Guided only by His sentiments, He wanders about in the company of other sentimentalists."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi745_32" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="991" link="CC Adi 7.45" link_text="CC Adi 7.45">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.45|CC Adi 7.45, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya stayed at the house of Candraśekhara, a clerk, although a sannyāsī is not supposed to reside in a śūdra's house. Five hundred years ago, especially in Bengal, it was the system that persons who were born in the families of brāhmaṇas were accepted as brāhmaṇas, and all those who took birth in other families—even the higher castes, namely, the kṣatriyas and vaiśyas—were considered śūdras, non-brāhmaṇas.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi746_33" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="992" link="CC Adi 7.46" link_text="CC Adi 7.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.46|CC Adi 7.46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As a matter of principle, Lord Caitanya regularly accepted His food at the house of Tapana Miśra. He never mixed with other sannyāsīs, nor did He accept invitations from them.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi746_34" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="992" link="CC Adi 7.46" link_text="CC Adi 7.46">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.46|CC Adi 7.46, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As a matter of principle, Lord Caitanya regularly accepted His food at the house of Tapana Miśra. He never mixed with other sannyāsīs, nor did He accept invitations from them.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This exemplary behavior of Lord Caitanya definitely proves that a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī cannot accept invitations from Māyāvādī sannyāsīs or intimately mix with them.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi750_35" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="996" link="CC Adi 7.50" link_text="CC Adi 7.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.50|CC Adi 7.50, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">While Caitanya Mahāprabhu was in Benares or Kāśī, the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs blasphemed Him in many ways because although He was a sannyāsī He was indulging in chanting and dancing. Tapana Miśra and Candraśekhara heard this criticism, and it was intolerable for them because they were great devotees of Lord Caitanya. They could not stop it, however, and therefore they appealed to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu because this blasphemy was so intolerable that they had decided to give up their lives.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi751_36" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="997" link="CC Adi 7.51" link_text="CC Adi 7.51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.51|CC Adi 7.51, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are all criticizing Your Holiness. We cannot tolerate hearing such criticism, for this blasphemy breaks our hearts."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi751_37" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="997" link="CC Adi 7.51" link_text="CC Adi 7.51">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.51|CC Adi 7.51, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although a kaniṣṭha-adhikārī also cannot tolerate such blasphemy, he is not competent to stop it by citing śāstric evidences. Therefore Tapana Miśra and Candraśekhara are understood to be kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs because they could not refute the arguments of the sannyāsīs in Benares. They appealed to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu to take action, for they felt that they could not tolerate such criticism although they also could not stop it.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi754_38" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1000" link="CC Adi 7.54" link_text="CC Adi 7.54">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.54|CC Adi 7.54, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear Lord, I have invited all the sannyāsīs of Benares to my home. My desires will be fulfilled if You also accept my invitation."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This brāhmaṇa knew that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was the only Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī in Benares at that time and all the others were Māyāvādīs. It is the duty of a gṛhastha to sometimes invite sannyāsīs to take food at his home. This gṛhastha-brāhmaṇa wanted to invite all the sannyāsīs to his house, but he also knew that it would be very difficult to induce Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu to accept such an invitation because the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs would be present. Therefore he fell down at His feet and fervently appealed to the Lord to be compassionate and grant his request. Thus he humbly submitted his desire.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi755_39" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1001" link="CC Adi 7.55" link_text="CC Adi 7.55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.55|CC Adi 7.55, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear Lord, I know that You never mix with other sannyāsīs, but please be merciful unto me and accept my invitation."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>An ācārya, or great personality of the Vaiṣṇava school, is very strict in his principles, but although he is as hard as a thunderbolt, sometimes he is as soft as a rose. Thus actually he is independent. He follows all the rules and regulations strictly, but sometimes he slackens this policy. It was known that Lord Caitanya never mixed with the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, yet He conceded to the request of the brāhmaṇa, as stated in the next verse.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi756_40" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1002" link="CC Adi 7.56" link_text="CC Adi 7.56">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.56|CC Adi 7.56, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Caitanya smiled and accepted the invitation of the brāhmaṇa. He made this gesture to show His mercy to the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Tapana Miśra and Candraśekhara appealed to the lotus feet of the Lord regarding their grief at the criticism of Him by the sannyāsīs in Benares. Caitanya Mahāprabhu merely smiled, yet He wanted to fulfill the desires of His devotees, and the opportunity came when the brāhmaṇa came to request Him to accept his invitation to be present in the midst of the other sannyāsīs. This coincidence was made possible by the omnipotency of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi758_41" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1004" link="CC Adi 7.58" link_text="CC Adi 7.58">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.58|CC Adi 7.58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The next day, when Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to the house of that brāhmaṇa, He saw all the sannyāsīs of Benares sitting there.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi759_42" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1005" link="CC Adi 7.59" link_text="CC Adi 7.59">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.59|CC Adi 7.59, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">As soon as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu saw the sannyāsīs He immediately offered obeisances, and then He went to wash His feet. After washing His feet, He sat down by the place where He had done so.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>By offering His obeisances to the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very clearly exhibited His humbleness to everyone. Vaiṣṇavas must not be disrespectful to anyone, to say nothing of a sannyāsī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches, amāninā māna-dena: one should always be respectful to others but should not demand respect for himself. A sannyāsī should always walk barefoot, and therefore when he enters a temple or a society of devotees he should first wash his feet and then sit down in a proper place. In India it is still the prevalent custom that one put his shoes in a specified place and then enter the temple barefoot after washing his feet. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is an ideal ācārya, and those who follow in His footsteps should practice the methods of devotional life that He teaches us.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi761_43" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1007" link="CC Adi 7.61" link_text="CC Adi 7.61">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.61|CC Adi 7.61, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When the sannyāsīs saw the brilliant illumination of the body of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, their minds were attracted, and they all immediately gave up their sitting places and stood in respect.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi762_44" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1008" link="CC Adi 7.62" link_text="CC Adi 7.62">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.62|CC Adi 7.62, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The leader of all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs present was named Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, and after standing up he addressed Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu as follows with great respect.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>As Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu showed respect to all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, similarly the leader of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, Prakāśānanda, also showed his respects to the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi763_45" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1009" link="CC Adi 7.63" link_text="CC Adi 7.63">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.63|CC Adi 7.63, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Here is the distinction between Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī. In the material world everyone wants to introduce himself as very important and great, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu introduced Himself very humbly and meekly. The Māyāvādīs were sitting in an exalted position, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu sat in a place that was not even clean. Therefore the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs thought that He must have been aggrieved for some reason, and Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī inquired about the cause for His lamentation.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi764_46" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1010" link="CC Adi 7.64" link_text="CC Adi 7.64">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.64|CC Adi 7.64, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord replied, "I belong to a lower order of sannyāsīs. Therefore I do not deserve to sit with you."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are always very puffed up because of their knowledge of Sanskrit and because they belong to the Śaṅkara-sampradāya. They are always under the impression that unless one is a brāhmaṇa and a very good Sanskrit scholar, especially in grammar, one cannot accept the renounced order of life or become a preacher. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs always misinterpret all the śāstras with their word jugglery and grammatical compositions, yet Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya himself condemned such jugglery of words in the verse prāpte sannihite kāle na hi na hi rakṣati ḍukṛñ karaṇe. Ḍukṛñ refers to suffixes and prefixes in Sanskrit grammar. Śaṅkarācārya warned his disciples that if they concerned themselves only with the principles of grammar, not worshiping Govinda, they were fools who would never be saved. Yet in spite of Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya's instructions, foolish Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are always busy juggling words on the basis of strict Sanskrit grammar.</p>
<p>Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are very puffed up if they hold the elevated sannyāsa title Tīrtha, Āśrama or Sarasvatī. Even among Māyāvādīs, those who belong to other sampradāyas and hold other titles, such as Vana, Araṇya or Bhāratī, are considered to be lower-grade sannyāsīs. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa from the Bhāratī-sampradāya, and thus He considered Himself a lower sannyāsī than Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī. To remain distinct from Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs, the sannyāsīs of the Māyāvādi-sampradāya always think themselves to be situated in a very much elevated spiritual order, but Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in order to teach them how to become humble and meek, accepted Himself as belonging to a lower sampradāya of sannyāsīs. Thus He wanted to point out clearly that a sannyāsī is one who is advanced in spiritual knowledge. One who is advanced in spiritual knowledge should be accepted as occupying a better position than those who lack such knowledge.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi764_47" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1010" link="CC Adi 7.64" link_text="CC Adi 7.64">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.64|CC Adi 7.64, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Māyāvādi-sampradāya sannyāsīs are generally known as Vedāntīs, as if Vedānta were their monopoly. Actually, however, Vedāntī refers to a person who perfectly knows Kṛṣṇa. As confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (15.15), vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ: By all the Vedas it is Kṛṣṇa who is to be known. The so-called Māyāvādī Vedāntīs do not know who Kṛṣṇa is; therefore their title of Vedāntī, or "knower of Vedānta philosophy," is simply a pretension. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs always think of themselves as real sannyāsīs and consider sannyāsīs of the Vaiṣṇava order to be brahmacārīs. A brahmacārī is supposed to engage in the service of a sannyāsī and accept him as his guru. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs therefore declare themselves to be not only gurus but jagad-gurus, or the spiritual masters of the entire world, although, of course, they cannot see the entire world. Sometimes they dress gorgeously and travel on the backs of elephants in processions, and thus they are always puffed up, accepting themselves as jagad-gurus. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, however, has explained that jagad-guru properly refers to one who is the controller of his tongue, mind, words, belly, genitals and anger. Pṛthivīṁ sa śiṣyāt: such a jagad-guru is completely fit to make disciples all over the world. Due to false prestige, Māyāvādī sannyāsīs who do not have these qualifications sometimes harass and blaspheme a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī who humbly engages in the service of the Lord.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi765_48" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1011" link="CC Adi 7.65" link_text="CC Adi 7.65">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.65|CC Adi 7.65, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The respectful behavior of Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī toward Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is very much to be appreciated. Such behavior is calculated to be ajñāta-sukṛti, or pious activities that one executes unknowingly. Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu very tactfully gave Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī an opportunity to advance in ajñāta-sukṛti so that in the future he might actually become a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi767_49" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1013" link="CC Adi 7.67" link_text="CC Adi 7.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.67|CC Adi 7.67, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"You belong to our Śaṅkara-sampradāya and live in our village, Vārāṇasī. Why then do You not associate with us? Why is it that You avoid even seeing us?"</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>A Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī or a Vaiṣṇava in the second stage of advancement in spiritual knowledge can understand four principles—namely, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the devotees, the innocent and the jealous—and he behaves differently with each. He tries to increase his love for Godhead, make friendship with devotees and preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness among the innocent, but he avoids the jealous who are envious of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself exemplified such behavior, and this is why Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī inquired why He did not associate or even talk with them. Caitanya Mahāprabhu confirmed by example that a preacher of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement generally should not waste his time talking with Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, but when there are arguments on the basis of śāstra, a Vaiṣṇava must come forward to talk and defeat them in philosophy.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi767_50" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1013" link="CC Adi 7.67" link_text="CC Adi 7.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.67|CC Adi 7.67, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, only one who takes sannyāsa in the disciplic succession from Śaṅkarācārya is a Vedic sannyāsī. Sometimes it is challenged that the sannyāsīs who are preaching in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are not genuine because they do not belong to brāhmaṇa families, for Māyāvādīs do not offer sannyāsa to one who does not belong to a brāhmaṇa family by birth. Unfortunately, however, they do not know that at present everyone is born a śūdra (kalau śūdra-sambhavaḥ). It is to be understood that there are no brāhmaṇas in this age because those who claim to be brāhmaṇas simply on the basis of birthright do not have the brahminical qualifications. However, even if one is born in a non-brāhmaṇa family, if he has the brahminical qualifications he should be accepted as a brāhmaṇa, as confirmed by Śrīla Nārada Muni and the great saint Śrīdhara Svāmī. This is also stated in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Both Nārada and Śrīdhara Svāmī completely agree that one cannot be a brāhmaṇa by birthright but must possess the qualities of a brāhmaṇa. Thus in our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement we never offer the sannyāsa order to a person whom we do not find to be qualified in terms of the prescribed brahminical principles. Although it is a fact that unless one is a brāhmaṇa he cannot become a sannyāsī, it is not a valid principle that an unqualified man who is born in a brāhmaṇa family is a brāhmaṇa whereas a brahminically qualified person born in a non-brāhmaṇa family cannot be accepted. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement strictly follows the injunctions of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, avoiding misleading heresy and manufactured conclusions.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi768_51" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1014" link="CC Adi 7.68" link_text="CC Adi 7.68">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.68|CC Adi 7.68, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"You are a sannyāsī. Why then do You indulge in chanting and dancing, engaging in Your saṅkīrtana movement in the company of fanatics?"</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.69|CC Adi 7.69, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Meditation and the study of Vedānta are the sole duties of a sannyāsī. Why do You abandon these to dance with fanatics?"</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>As explained in regard to verse 41, Māyāvādī sannyāsīs do not approve of chanting and dancing. Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, like Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, misunderstood Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu to be a misled young sannyāsī, and therefore he asked Him why He indulged in the association of fanatics instead of executing the duty of a sannyāsī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi770_53" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1016" link="CC Adi 7.70" link_text="CC Adi 7.70">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.70|CC Adi 7.70, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Due to renunciation, Vedānta study, meditation and the strict regulative principles of their daily routine, Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are certainly in a position to execute pious activities. Thus Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, on account of his piety, could understand that Caitanya Mahāprabhu was not an ordinary person but the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sākṣāt nārāyaṇa: he considered Him to be Nārāyaṇa Himself. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs address one another as Nārāyaṇa because they think that they are all going to be Nārāyaṇa or merge with Nārāyaṇa in the next life.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi773_54" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1019" link="CC Adi 7.73" link_text="CC Adi 7.73">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.73|CC Adi 7.73, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">If one adheres to the regulative principles under the order of the spiritual master, he very easily achieves the ultimate goal of his life. A person who is addicted to the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra very easily gets the opportunity to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly. There is no need for such a person to understand the grammatical jugglery in which Māyāvādī sannyāsīs generally indulge.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.95-96|CC Adi 7.95-96, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu presented himself in this way: “I am a great fool and do not have knowledge of right and wrong. In order to understand the real meaning of the Vedānta-sūtra, I never followed the explanation of the Śaṅkara-sampradāya or Māyāvādī sannyāsīs. I’m very much afraid of the illogical arguments of the Māyāvādī philosophers.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.99|CC Adi 7.99, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were moved. Their minds changed, and thus they spoke with pleasing words.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs met Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Vārāṇasī to criticize the Lord regarding His participation in the saṅkīrtana movement, which they did not like. This demonic nature of opposition to the saṅkīrtana movement perpetually exists. As it existed in the time of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, similarly it existed long before that, even in the time of Prahlāda Mahārāja.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi799_57" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1043" link="CC Adi 7.99" link_text="CC Adi 7.99">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.99|CC Adi 7.99, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are āsuraṁ bhāvam āśritāḥ, which means that they have taken the path of the asuras (demons), who do not believe in the existence of the form of the Lord. The Māyāvādīs say that the ultimate source of everything is impersonal, and in this way they deny the existence of God. Saying that there is no God is direct denial of God, and saying that God exists but has no head, legs or hands and cannot speak, hear or eat is a negative way of denying His existence.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.99|CC Adi 7.99, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Impersonalist Māyāvādīs always try to defy Vaiṣṇavas because Vaiṣṇavas accept the Supreme Personality as the supreme cause and want to serve Him, talk with Him and see Him, just as the Lord is also eager to see His devotees and talk, eat and dance with them. These personal exchanges of love do not appeal to the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs. Therefore the original purpose of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs of Benares in meeting Caitanya Mahāprabhu was to defeat His personal conception of God. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, as a preacher, turned the minds of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs. They were melted by the sweet words of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and thus became friendly and spoke to Him also in sweet words.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.100|CC Adi 7.100, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">By discharging devotional service under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master, or ācārya, he develops love of Godhead. One whose love of Godhead (kṛṣṇa-prema) is awakened and who thus becomes a devotee of the inconceivable Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be considered extremely fortunate. The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs admitted this fact to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. It is not easy for one to become a Kṛṣṇa conscious person, but by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu it can be possible, as will be proven in the course of this narration.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7101_60" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1045" link="CC Adi 7.101" link_text="CC Adi 7.101">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.101|CC Adi 7.101, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments in this connection, "Māyāvādī sannyāsīs accept that the commentary by Śrī Śaṅkarācārya known as Śārīraka-bhāṣya gives the real meaning of the Vedanta-sūtra. In other words, Māyāvādī sannyāsīs accept the meanings expressed in the explanations of the Vedānta-sūtra by Śaṅkarācārya, which are based on monism. Thus they explain the Vedānta-sūtra, the Upaniṣads and all such Vedic literatures in their own impersonal way." The great Māyāvādī sannyāsī Sadānanda Yogīndra has written a book known as Vedānta-sāra, in which he writes, vedānto nāma upaniṣat-pramāṇam. tad-upakārīṇi śārīraka-sūtrādīni ca. According to Sadānanda Yogīndra, the Vedānta-sūtra and Upaniṣads, as presented by Śrī Śaṅkarācārya in his Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary, are the only sources of Vedic evidence. Actually, however, Vedānta refers to the essence of Vedic knowledge, and it is not a fact that there is nothing more than Śaṅkarācārya's Śārīraka-bhāṣya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7102_61" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1046" link="CC Adi 7.102" link_text="CC Adi 7.102">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.102|CC Adi 7.102, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After hearing the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs speak in that way, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu smiled slightly and said, "My dear sirs, if you don’t mind I can say something to you regarding Vedānta philosophy."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, appreciating Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, inquired from Him why He did not discuss Vedānta philosophy. Actually, however, the entire system of Vaiṣṇava activities is based on Vedānta philosophy. Vaiṣṇavas do not neglect Vedānta, but they do not care to understand Vedānta on the basis of the Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary. Therefore, to clarify the situation, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, with the permission of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, wanted to speak regarding Vedānta philosophy.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7103_62" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1047" link="CC Adi 7.103" link_text="CC Adi 7.103">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.103|CC Adi 7.103, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing this, the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs became somewhat humble and addressed Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Nārāyaṇa Himself, who they all agreed He was.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Māyāvādī sannyāsīs address each other as Nārāyaṇa. Whenever they see another sannyāsī, they offer him respect by calling oṁ namo nārāyaṇāya ("I offer my respect unto you, Nārāyaṇa"), although they know perfectly well what kind of Nārāyaṇa he is. Nārāyaṇa has four hands, but although they are puffed up with the idea of being Nārāyaṇa, they cannot exhibit more than two. Since their philosophy declares that Nārāyaṇa and an ordinary human being are on the same level, they sometimes use the term daridra-nārāyaṇa ("poor Nārāyaṇa"), which was invented by a so-called svāmī who did not know anything about Vedānta philosophy. Therefore although all these Māyāvādī sannyāsīs who called themselves Nārāyaṇa were actually unaware of the position of Nārāyaṇa, due to their austerities Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu enabled them to understand Him to be Nārāyaṇa Himself. Lord Caitanya is certainly the Supreme Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa appearing as a devotee of Nārāyaṇa, and thus the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, understanding that He was directly Nārāyaṇa Himself whereas they were false, puffed-up Nārāyaṇas, spoke to Him as follows.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7104_63" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1048" link="CC Adi 7.104" link_text="CC Adi 7.104">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.104|CC Adi 7.104, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"With one's materially contaminated senses one cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His name, form, qualities or paraphernalia, but if one renders service unto Him, the Lord reveals Himself." (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.234) Here one can see the effect of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs' service toward Nārāyaṇa. Because the Māyāvādīs offered a little respect to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and because they were pious and actually followed the austere rules and regulations of sannyāsa, they had some understanding of Vedānta philosophy, and by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu they could appreciate that He was none other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is endowed with all six opulences. One of these opulences is His beauty. By His extraordinarily beautiful bodily features, the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs recognized Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu as Nārāyaṇa Himself. He was not a farcical Nārāyaṇa like the daridra-nārāyaṇas invented by so-called sannyāsīs.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7105_64" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1049" link="CC Adi 7.105" link_text="CC Adi 7.105">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.105|CC Adi 7.105, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In this verse the words tomāra prabhāve ("Your influence") are very important. Unless one is spiritually advanced he cannot influence an audience. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has sung, śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu, bhajana-anukūla. "Unless one associates with a pure devotee, he cannot be influenced to understand devotional service." These Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were fortunate enough to meet the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the form of a devotee, and certainly they were greatly influenced by the Lord. They knew that since a perfectly advanced spiritualist never says anything false, all his words are reasonable and agree with the Vedic version. A highly realized person never says anything that has no meaning. Māyāvādī philosophers claim to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and this has no meaning, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu never uttered such nonsense. The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were convinced about His personality, and therefore they wanted to hear the purport of Vedānta philosophy from Him.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7128_65" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1072" link="CC Adi 7.128" link_text="CC Adi 7.128">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.128|CC Adi 7.128, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">As such explanations of the Bhagavad-gītā are absurd, so also is Śaṅkarācārya's explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra, and no sane and reasonable man will accept it. At present, however, the Vedānta-sūtra is misrepresented not only by the so-called Vedāntīs but also by other unscrupulous persons who are so degraded that they even recommend that sannyāsīs eat meat, fish and eggs. In this way, the so-called followers of Śaṅkara, the impersonalist Māyāvādīs, are sinking lower and lower. How can these degraded men explain the Vedānta-sūtra, which is the essence of all Vedic literature?</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7134_66" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1078" link="CC Adi 7.134" link_text="CC Adi 7.134">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.134|CC Adi 7.134, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu thus showed for each and every sūtra the defects in Śaṅkarācārya's explanations, all the assembled Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were struck with wonder.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7135_67" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1079" link="CC Adi 7.135" link_text="CC Adi 7.135">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.135|CC Adi 7.135, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">All the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs said, "Your Holiness, kindly know from us that we actually have no quarrel with Your refutation of these meanings, for You have given a clear understanding of the sūtras."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7137_68" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1081" link="CC Adi 7.137" link_text="CC Adi 7.137">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.137|CC Adi 7.137, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"Now let us see," the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs continued, "how well You can describe the sūtras in terms of their direct meaning." Hearing this, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu began His direct explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7143_69" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1087" link="CC Adi 7.143" link_text="CC Adi 7.143">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.143|CC Adi 7.143, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Many big sannyāsīs who were supposedly liberated and very advanced have come down again to materialistic activities, although they left this world as mithyā (false). When a devotee develops in devotional service, however, he no longer has attachments to such philanthropic activities.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7147_70" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1091" link="CC Adi 7.147" link_text="CC Adi 7.147">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.147|CC Adi 7.147, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs thus heard the explanation of Caitanya Mahāprabhu on the basis of sambandha, abhidheya and prayojana, they spoke very humbly.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Everyone who actually desires to understand the Vedānta philosophy must certainly accept the explanation of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and the Vaiṣṇava ācāryas who have also commented on the Vedānta-sūtra according to the principles of bhakti-yoga. After hearing the explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the sannyāsīs, headed by Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, became very humble and obedient to the Lord, and they spoke as follows.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7148_71" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1092" link="CC Adi 7.148" link_text="CC Adi 7.148">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.148|CC Adi 7.148, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The complete path of bhakti-yoga is based upon the process of becoming humble and submissive. By the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs were very humble and submissive after hearing His explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra, and they begged to be pardoned for the offenses they had committed by criticizing the Lord for simply chanting and dancing and not taking part in the study of the Vedānta-sūtra.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7149_72" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1093" link="CC Adi 7.149" link_text="CC Adi 7.149">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.149|CC Adi 7.149, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">From that moment when the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs heard the explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra from the Lord, their minds changed, and on the instruction of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they too chanted "Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa!" always.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>In this connection it may be mentioned that sometimes the sahajiyā class of devotees opine that Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī and Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī are the same man. Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī was a great Vaiṣṇava devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, but Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, the head of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs in Benares, was a different person. Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī belonged to the Rāmānuja-sampradāya, whereas Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī belonged to the Śaṅkarācārya-sampradāya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7150_73" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1094" link="CC Adi 7.150" link_text="CC Adi 7.150">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.150|CC Adi 7.150, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Thus Lord Caitanya excused all the offenses of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs and very mercifully blessed them with kṛṣṇa-nāma.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the mercy incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is addressed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī as mahā-vadānyāvatāra, or the most magnanimous incarnation. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī also says, karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau: it is only by His mercy that He has descended in this Age of Kali. Here this is exemplified. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not like to see Māyāvādī sannyāsīs because He thought of them as offenders to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, but here He excuses them (tāṅ-sabāra kṣami' aparādha). This is an example in preaching. Āpani ācari' bhakti śikhāimu sabāre. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches us that those whom preachers meet are almost all offenders who are opposed to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but it is a preacher's duty to convince them of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and then induce them to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7151_74" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1095" link="CC Adi 7.151" link_text="CC Adi 7.151">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.151|CC Adi 7.151, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After this, all the sannyāsīs took the Lord into their midst, and thus they all took their meal together.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Previously Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had neither mixed nor talked with the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, but now He took lunch with them. It is to be concluded that when Lord Caitanya induced them to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and excused them for their offenses, they were purified, and therefore there was no objection to taking lunch, or bhagavat-prasādam, with them, although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu knew that the food had not been offered to the Deity. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs do not worship the Deity, or if they do so they generally worship the deity of Lord Śiva or the pañcopāsanā (Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Śiva, Durgā-devī, Gaṇeśa and Sūrya). Here we do not find any mention of the demigods or Viṣṇu, and yet Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted food in the midst of the sannyāsīs on the basis that they had chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra and that He had excused their offenses.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7152_75" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1096" link="CC Adi 7.152" link_text="CC Adi 7.152">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.152|CC Adi 7.152, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After taking lunch among the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is known as Gaurasundara, returned to His residence. Thus the Lord performs His wonderful pastimes.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7153_76" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1097" link="CC Adi 7.153" link_text="CC Adi 7.153">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.153|CC Adi 7.153, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing the arguments of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and seeing His victory, Candraśekhara, Tapana Miśra and Sanātana Gosvāmī were all extremely pleased.</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Here is an example of how a sannyāsī should preach. When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu went to Vārāṇasī, He went there alone, not with a big party. Locally, however, He made friendships with Candraśekhara and Tapana Miśra, and Sanātana Gosvāmī also came to see Him. Therefore, although He did not have many friends there, due to His sound preaching and His victory in arguing with the local sannyāsīs on the Vedānta philosophy, He became greatly famous in that part of the country, as explained in the next verse.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7154_77" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1098" link="CC Adi 7.154" link_text="CC Adi 7.154">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.154|CC Adi 7.154, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Many Māyāvādī sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī came to see the Lord after this incident, and the entire city praised Him.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7157_78" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1101" link="CC Adi 7.157" link_text="CC Adi 7.157">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.157|CC Adi 7.157, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The important point in this verse is that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu regularly visited the temple of Viśveśvara (Lord Śiva) at Vārāṇasī. Vaiṣṇavas generally do not visit a demigod's temple, but here we see that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu regularly visited the temple of Viśveśvara, who was the predominating deity of Vārāṇasī. Generally Māyāvādī sannyāsīs and worshipers of Lord Śiva live in Vārāṇasī, but how is it that Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who took the part of a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī, also visited the Viśveśvara temple? The answer is that a Vaiṣṇava does not behave impudently toward the demigods. A Vaiṣṇava gives proper respect to all, although he never accepts a demigod to be as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi7163_79" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1107" link="CC Adi 7.163" link_text="CC Adi 7.163">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.163|CC Adi 7.163, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">There are some foolish critics who say that Europeans and Americans cannot be offered sannyāsa, but here we find that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to preach the saṅkīrtana movement all over the universe. For preaching work, sannyāsīs are essential. These critics think that only Indians or Hindus should be offered sannyāsa to preach, but their knowledge is practically nil. Without sannyāsīs, the preaching work will be impeded. Therefore, under the instruction of Lord Caitanya and with the blessings of His associates, there should be no discrimination in this matter, but people in all parts of the world should be trained to preach and given sannyāsa so that the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's saṅkīrtana movement will expand boundlessly. We do not care about the criticism of fools. We shall go on with our work and simply depend on the blessings of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His associates, the Pañca-tattva.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi810_80" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1126" link="CC Adi 8.10" link_text="CC Adi 8.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.10|CC Adi 8.10, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu thought, "Unless people accept Me they will all be destroyed." Thus the merciful Lord accepted the sannyāsa order.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi810_81" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1126" link="CC Adi 8.10" link_text="CC Adi 8.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.10|CC Adi 8.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (12.3.51) it is said, kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya mukta-saṅgaḥ paraṁ vrajet: "Simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, or Lord Kṛṣṇa's name, one is liberated and goes back home, back to Godhead." This Kṛṣṇa consciousness must be achieved through the mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. One cannot be complete in Kṛṣṇa consciousness unless he accepts Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His associates as the only means for success. It is because of these considerations that the Lord accepted sannyāsa, for thus people would offer Him respect and very quickly come to the platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Since Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is Kṛṣṇa Himself, inaugurated the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, without His mercy one cannot be elevated to the transcendental platform of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi811_82" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1127" link="CC Adi 8.11" link_text="CC Adi 8.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.11|CC Adi 8.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"If a person offers obeisances to Me, even due to accepting Me only as an ordinary sannyāsī, his material distresses will diminish, and he will ultimately get liberation."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi811_83" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1127" link="CC Adi 8.11" link_text="CC Adi 8.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 8.11|CC Adi 8.11, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa so that even a foolish person who accepted Him as an ordinary sannyāsī would offer Him respect, for this would help diminish his material distresses and ultimately liberate him from the material clutches. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī points out in this connection that Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is the combined form of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa (mahāprabhu śrī-caitanya, rādhā-kṛṣṇa—nahe anya). Therefore when fools considered Caitanya Mahāprabhu to be an ordinary human being and thus treated Him disrespectfully, the merciful Lord, in order to deliver these offenders, accepted sannyāsa so that they would offer Him obeisances, accepting Him as a sannyāsī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa to bestow His great mercy on people in general, who cannot appreciate Him as Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa Themselves.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi9Summary_84" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1201" link="CC Adi 9 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 9 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9 Summary|CC Adi 9 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">It is figuratively described that both the tree itself and the trunk of the tree are Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Paramānanda Purī and eight other great sannyāsīs are like the spreading roots of the tree. From the main trunk there extend two special branches, Advaita Prabhu and Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, and from those branches grow other branches and twigs. The tree surrounds the entire world, and the fruits of the tree are to be distributed to everyone. In this way the tree of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu intoxicates the entire world. It should be noted that this is a figurative example meant to explain the mission of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi910_85" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1211" link="CC Adi 9.10" link_text="CC Adi 9.10">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.10|CC Adi 9.10, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Mādhavendra Purī, also known as Śrī Mādhava Purī, belonged to the disciplic succession from Madhvācārya and was a greatly celebrated sannyāsī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was the third disciplic descendant from Śrī Mādhavendra Purī. The process of worship in the disciplic succession of Madhvācārya was full of ritualistic ceremonies, with hardly a sign of love of Godhead.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_86" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Paramānanda Purī, Keśava Bhāratī, Brahmānanda Purī and Brahmānanda Bhāratī, Śrī Viṣṇu Purī, Keśava Purī, Kṛṣṇānanda Purī, Śrī Nṛsiṁha Tīrtha and Sukhānanda Purī—these nine sannyāsī roots all sprouted from the trunk of the tree. Thus the tree stood steadfastly on the strength of these nine roots.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_87" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Among his sannyāsī disciples, Īśvara Purī and Paramānanda Purī were very dear to Mādhavendra Purī. Thus Paramānanda Purī, like Svarūpa Dāmodara, who was also a sannyāsī, was very dear to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and was His constant associate. When Lord Caitanya accepted the renounced order, Paramānanda Purī offered Him the daṇḍa. Paramānanda Purī was always engaged in meditation, and Śrī Svarūpa was always engaged in chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. As Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered full respect to His spiritual master, Īśvara Purī, He similarly respected Paramānanda Purī and Svarūpa Dāmodara." It is described in the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter Three, that when Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu first saw Paramānanda Purī He made the following statement:</p>
<p>āji dhanya locana, saphala āji janma</p>
:saphala āmāra āji haila sarva-dharma
:prabhu bale āji mora saphala sannyāsa
:āji mādhavendra more ha-ilā prakāśa
<p>"My eyes, My mind, My religious activities and My acceptance of the sannyāsa order have now all become perfect because today Mādhavendra Purī is manifest before Me in the form of Paramānanda Purī."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_88" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to some authoritative opinions, although Keśava Bhāratī belonged to the Śaṅkara-sampradāya, he had formerly been initiated by a Vaiṣṇava. He is said to have been a Vaiṣṇava on account of having been initiated by Mādhavendra Purī, for some say that he took sannyāsa from Mādhavendra Purī. The temple and Deity worship started by Keśava Bhāratī are still existing in the village known as Khāṭundi, which is under the postal jurisdiction of Kāndarā in the district of Burdwan.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_89" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Mādhava Bhāratī’s disciple Balabhadra, who also later became a sannyāsī of the Bhāratī-sampradāya, had two sons in his family life, named Madana and Gopāla. Madana, whose family's surname was Bhāratī, lived in the village of Āuriyā, and Gopāla, whose family's surname was Brahmacārī, lived in the village of Denduḍa.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_90" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"Sāndīpani Muni, who formerly offered the sacred thread to Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, later became Keśava Bhāratī." It is he who offered sannyāsa to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. There is another statement about Keśava Bhāratī from the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (117): iti kecit prabhāṣante ’krūraḥ keśava-bhāratī. "According to some authoritative opinions, Keśava Bhāratī is an incarnation of Akrūra." Keśava Bhāratī offered the sannyāsa order to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in the year 1432 śakābda (A.D. 1510) in Katwa. This is stated in the Vaiṣṇava-mañjuṣā, Part Two.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_91" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmānanda Purī: Śrī Brahmānanda Purī was one of the associates of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu while He was performing kīrtana in Navadvīpa, and he also joined Lord Caitanya in Jagannātha Purī. We may note in this connection that the name Brahmānanda is accepted not only by Māyāvādī sannyāsīs but by Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs also. One of our foolish Godbrothers criticized our sannyāsī Brahmānanda Svāmī, saying that this was a Māyāvādī name. The foolish man did not know that Brahmānanda does not always refer to the impersonal Brahman. Parabrahman, the Supreme Brahman, is Kṛṣṇa. A devotee of Kṛṣṇa can therefore also be called Brahmānanda; this is evident from the fact that Brahmānanda Purī was one of the chief sannyāsī associates of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi91315_92" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1214" link="CC Adi 9.13-15" link_text="CC Adi 9.13-15">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 9.13-15|CC Adi 9.13-15, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Brahmānanda Bhāratī: Brahmānanda Bhāratī went to see Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha-dhāma. At that time he used to wear only a deerskin to cover himself, and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu indirectly indicated that He did not like this deerskin covering. Brahmānanda Bhāratī therefore gave it up and accepted a loincloth of saffron color, as used by Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs. For some time he lived with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi108_93" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1263" link="CC Adi 10.8" link_text="CC Adi 10.8">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.8|CC Adi 10.8, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (90), Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita (Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura) is described as an incarnation of Nārada Muni, and Śrī Rāma Paṇḍita, his younger brother, is said to be an incarnation of Parvata Muni, a great friend of Nārada's. Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita's wife, Mālinī, is celebrated as an incarnation of the nurse Ambikā, who fed Lord Kṛṣṇa with her breast milk, and as already noted, his niece Nārāyaṇī, the mother of Ṭhākura Vṛndāvana dāsa, the author of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, was the sister of Ambikā in kṛṣṇa-līlā. We also understand from the description of Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata that after Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's acceptance of the sannyāsa order, Śrīvāsa Paṇḍita left Navadvīpa, possibly because of feelings of separation, and domiciled at Kumārahaṭṭa.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1013_94" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1268" link="CC Adi 10.13" link_text="CC Adi 10.13">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.13|CC Adi 10.13, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu decided to accept the renounced order of life, Candraśekhara Ācārya was informed of this by Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, and therefore he was present when Lord Caitanya accepted sannyāsa from Keśava Bhāratī in Katwa. It is he who first spread the word in Navadvīpa of Lord Caitanya's accepting sannyāsa. Śrī Candraśekhara Ācārya was present during many important incidents in the pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He therefore forms the second branch of the tree of Lord Caitanya.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1022_95" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1277" link="CC Adi 10.22" link_text="CC Adi 10.22">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.22|CC Adi 10.22, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Jagadānanda Paṇḍita (as an incarnation of Satyabhāmā) always wanted to see to the comfort of Lord Caitanya, but since the Lord was a sannyāsī He did not accept the luxuries that Jagadānanda Paṇḍita offered.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1040_96" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1295" link="CC Adi 10.40" link_text="CC Adi 10.40">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.40|CC Adi 10.40, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Before disclosing His desire to take the renounced order of life, Lord Caitanya first went to the house of Mukunda Datta, but at that time Mukunda Datta requested Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu to continue His saṅkīrtana movement for a few days more before taking sannyāsa. This is stated in the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya-khaṇḍa, Chapter Twenty-six. The information of Lord Caitanya's accepting the renounced order was made known to Gadādhara Paṇḍita, Candraśekhara Ācārya and Mukunda Datta by Nityānanda Prabhu, and therefore all of them went to Katwa and arranged for kīrtana and all the paraphernalia for Lord Caitanya's acceptance of sannyāsa. After the Lord took sannyāsa, they all followed Him, especially Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu, Gadādhara Prabhu and Mukunda Datta, who followed Him all the way to Puruṣottama-kṣetra. In this connection one may refer to Śrī Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter Two. In the place known as Jaleśvara, Nityānanda Prabhu broke the sannyāsa rod of Caitanya Mahāprabhu ([[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.97|CC Madhya 1.97]]). Mukunda Datta was also present at that time. He went every year from Bengal to see Lord Caitanya at Jagannātha Purī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1067_97" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1322" link="CC Adi 10.67" link_text="CC Adi 10.67">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.67|CC Adi 10.67, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu started His civil disobedience movement in defiance of the Kazi, Śrīdhara danced in jubilation. The Lord used to drink water from his water jug. Śrīdhara presented a squash to Śacīdevī to cook before Lord Caitanya took sannyāsa. Every year he went to see Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu at Jagannātha Purī. According to Kavi-karṇapūra, Śrīdhara was a cowherd boy of Vṛndāvana whose name was Kusumāsava.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10105_98" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1359" link="CC Adi 10.105" link_text="CC Adi 10.105">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.105|CC Adi 10.105, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">In the year 1433 Śakābda (A.D. 1511), when Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was touring South India, He stayed for four months during the period of Cāturmāsya at the house of Veṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa, who then got the opportunity to serve the Lord to his heart's content. Gopāla Bhaṭṭa also got the opportunity to serve the Lord at this time. Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī was later initiated by his uncle, the great sannyāsī Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10106_99" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1360" link="CC Adi 10.106" link_text="CC Adi 10.106">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.106|CC Adi 10.106, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is said that Śaṅkarāraṇya was the sannyāsa name of Śrīla Viśvarūpa, who was the elder brother of Viśvambhara (the original name of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu). Śaṅkarāraṇya expired in 1432 Śakābda (A.D. 1510) at Sholapur, where there is a place of pilgrimage known as Pāṇḍarapura. This is referred to in the Madhya-līlā, Chapter Nine, verses 299 and 300.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10114_100" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1368" link="CC Adi 10.114" link_text="CC Adi 10.114">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.114|CC Adi 10.114, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura writes in his Anubhāṣya, “Jagannātha Tīrtha was one of the nine principal sannyāsīs who were Lord Caitanya's associates."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10130_101" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1382" link="CC Adi 10.130" link_text="CC Adi 10.130">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.130|CC Adi 10.130, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to some authoritative opinions, the celebrated logician Raghunātha Śiromaṇi was also a student of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya's. In effect, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya became the leader of all students of logic. Although he was a gṛhastha (householder), he even taught many sannyāsīs in the knowledge of logic.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10134_102" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1386" link="CC Adi 10.134" link_text="CC Adi 10.134">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.134|CC Adi 10.134, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The Gaura-gaṇoddeśa-dīpikā (120–24) states that Rāmānanda Rāya was formerly Arjuna. He is also considered to have been an incarnation of the gopī Lalitā, although in the opinion of others he was an incarnation of Viśākhādevī. He was a most confidential devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, "Although I am a sannyāsī, My mind is sometimes perturbed when I see a woman. But Rāmānanda Rāya is greater than Me, for he is always undisturbed, even when he touches a woman." Only Rāmānanda Rāya was endowed with the prerogative to touch a woman in this way; no one should imitate him. Unfortunately, there are rascals who imitate the activities of Rāmānanda Rāya. We need not discuss them further.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10146_103" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1397" link="CC Adi 10.146" link_text="CC Adi 10.146">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.146|CC Adi 10.146, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya acted as a brahmacārī, or personal assistant of a sannyāsī. A sannyāsī is not supposed to cook. Generally a sannyāsī takes prasādam at the house of a gṛhastha, and a brahmacārī helps in this connection. A sannyāsī is supposed to be a spiritual master and a brahmacārī his disciple. Balabhadra Bhaṭṭācārya acted as a brahmacārī for Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu when the Lord toured Mathurā and Vṛndāvana.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi10160_104" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1409" link="CC Adi 10.160" link_text="CC Adi 10.160">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 10.160|CC Adi 10.160, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It was the desire of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu that His cult be spread all over the world. Therefore there is a great necessity for many, many disciples of the branches of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's disciplic succession. His cult should be spread not only in a few villages, or in Bengal, or in India, but all over the world. It is very regrettable that complacent so-called devotees criticize the members of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness for accepting sannyāsa and spreading the cult of Lord Caitanya all over the world. It is not our business to criticize anyone, but because they try to find fault with this movement, the real truth must be stated. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted devotees all over the world, and Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura and Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura confirmed this. It is in pursuit of their will that the ISKCON movement is spreading all over the world. Genuine devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu must take pride in the spread of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement instead of viciously criticizing its propaganda work.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1217_105" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1492" link="CC Adi 12.17" link_text="CC Adi 12.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.17|CC Adi 12.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the renounced order of sannyāsa in the year 1431 Śakābda (A.D. 1509), He came to the house of Advaita Prabhu at Śāntipura. At that time, as stated in the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter One, Acyutānanda was only three years old.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1217_106" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1492" link="CC Adi 12.17" link_text="CC Adi 12.17">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.17|CC Adi 12.17, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Again, when Lord Caitanya beat Advaita Ācārya for explaining Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from an impersonalist viewpoint opposed to the principles of bhakti-yoga, Acyutānanda was also present. Therefore all these incidents must have occurred only two or three years before Lord Caitanya accepted the sannyāsa order. As mentioned above, in the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Antya-khaṇḍa, Chapter One, it is stated that Acyutānanda, the son of Advaita Ācārya, offered his obeisances to the Lord. Therefore it should be concluded that from the very beginning of his life Acyutānanda was a great devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1227_107" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1502" link="CC Adi 12.27" link_text="CC Adi 12.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.27|CC Adi 12.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura notes that the son of Gosvāmī Bhaṭṭācārya, Śrī Rādhāramaṇa Gosvāmī Bhaṭṭācārya, refused the title gosvāmī because it is generally meant for sannyāsīs, those who have taken the renounced order of life. One who is still in family life should not misuse the title gosvāmī. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura did not recognize the caste gosvāmīs because they were not in the line of the six gosvāmīs in the renounced order who were direct disciples of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu—namely Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrīla Bhaṭṭa Raghunātha Gosvāmī, Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī and Śrīla Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura said that the gṛhastha āśrama, or the status of family life, is a sort of concession for sense gratification. Therefore a gṛhastha should not falsely adopt the title gosvāmī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1227_108" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1502" link="CC Adi 12.27" link_text="CC Adi 12.27">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.27|CC Adi 12.27, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The ISKCON movement has never conferred the title gosvāmī upon a householder. Although all the sannyāsīs we have initiated in ISKCON are young, we have awarded them the titles of the renounced order of life, svāmī and gosvāmī, because they have completely dedicated their lives to preach the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura mentions that not only do the householder caste gosvāmīs disrespect the title gosvāmī, but also, following the principles of the smārta Raghunandana, they exhibit great foolishness by burning a straw image of Advaita Ācārya in a śrāddha ceremony, thus acting like Rākṣasas and disrespecting the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, which is the guide for Vaiṣṇavas. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura says that sometimes these smārta caste gosvāmīs write books on Vaiṣṇava philosophy or commentaries on the original scriptures, but a pure devotee should cautiously avoid reading them.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1242_109" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1517" link="CC Adi 12.42" link_text="CC Adi 12.42">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.42|CC Adi 12.42, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Mother Śacīdevī was similarly punished, as mentioned in the Caitanya-bhāgavata, Madhya-khaṇḍa, Chapter Twenty-two. Mother Śacīdevī, apparently showing her feminine nature, accused Advaita Prabhu of encouraging her son to become a sannyāsī. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, taking this accusation as an offense, asked Śacīdevī to touch the lotus feet of Advaita Ācārya to mitigate the offense she had supposedly committed.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1250_110" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1525" link="CC Adi 12.50" link_text="CC Adi 12.50">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.50|CC Adi 12.50, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">It is very risky to accept money or food from materialistic persons, for such acceptance pollutes the mind of the charity's recipient. According to the Vedic system, one should give charity to sannyāsīs and brāhmaṇas because one who thus gives charity becomes free from sinful activities. Formerly, therefore, brāhmaṇas would not accept charity from a person unless he were very pious.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1272_111" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1547" link="CC Adi 12.72" link_text="CC Adi 12.72">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.72|CC Adi 12.72, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Be he a learned scholar, a great ascetic, a successful householder or a famous sannyāsī, one who is against the cult of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is destined to suffer the punishment meted out by Yamarāja.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1273_112" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1548" link="CC Adi 12.73" link_text="CC Adi 12.73">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 12.73|CC Adi 12.73, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">"In other words, the branches or descendants of Advaita Ācārya who considered Advaita Ācārya the original cause of the devotional creeper, and who thus neglected or disobeyed the instructions of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, deprived themselves of the effect of being watered and thus dried up and died. It is further to be understood that not only the misguided descendants of Advaita Ācārya but anyone who has no connection with Caitanya Mahāprabhu—even if he is independently a great sannyāsī, learned scholar or ascetic—is like a dead branch of a tree."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi13Summary_113" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1572" link="CC Adi 13 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 13 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13 Summary|CC Adi 13 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The Thirteenth Chapter describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's appearance. The entire Ādi-līlā describes Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's household life, and similarly the Antya-līlā describes His life in the sannyāsa order. Within the Lord's antya-līlā, the first six years of His sannyāsa life are called the madhya-līlā. During this time, Caitanya Mahāprabhu toured southern India, went to Vṛndāvana, returned from Vṛndāvana and preached the saṅkīrtana movement.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1311_114" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1583" link="CC Adi 13.11" link_text="CC Adi 13.11">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.11|CC Adi 13.11, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After twenty-four years He accepted the renounced order of life, sannyāsa, and He resided for twenty-four years more at Jagannātha Purī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1337_115" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1609" link="CC Adi 13.37" link_text="CC Adi 13.37">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.37|CC Adi 13.37, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The activities of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu in His travels after He accepted sannyāsa are His principal pastimes. His activities during His remaining eighteen years are called the antya-līlā, or the final portion of His pastimes.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1374_116" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1644" link="CC Adi 13.74" link_text="CC Adi 13.74">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 13.74|CC Adi 13.74, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Viśvarūpa was the elder brother of Gaurahari, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. When arrangements were being made for the marriage of Viśvarūpa, He took sannyāsa and left home. He took the sannyāsa name of Śaṅkarāraṇya. In 1431 Śakābda Era (A.D. 1509), He disappeared in Pāṇḍarapura, in the district of Sholapur. As an incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, He is both the ingredient and immediate cause of the creation of this material world. He is nondifferent from Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for the aṁśa and the aṁśī, or the part and the whole, are not different. As an incarnation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Viśvarūpa belongs to the quadruple manifestation of catur-vyūha. In the Gaura-candrodaya it is said that Viśvarūpa, after His so-called demise, remained mixed within Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1455_117" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1750" link="CC Adi 14.55" link_text="CC Adi 14.55">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 14.55|CC Adi 14.55, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa at an early age, it is not necessary for His devotees to follow Him by also taking sannyāsa. One can stay a householder, but one must be a devotee of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Then one will be happy, with all the material opulences of a good home, good children, good mate, good wealth and everything he desires. Therefore the śāstras advise, yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana-prāyair yajanti hi su-medhasaḥ  ([[Vanisource:SB 11.5.32|SB 11.5.32]]). Every householder, therefore, who is actually intelligent should introduce the saṅkīrtana movement home to home and live peacefully in this life and go back to Godhead in the next.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi15Summary_118" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1793" link="CC Adi 15 Summary" link_text="CC Adi 15 Summary">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15 Summary|CC Adi 15 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">A synopsis of the Fifteenth Chapter is as follows. The Lord took lessons in grammar from Gaṅgādāsa Paṇḍita and became very expert in commenting upon grammar. He forbade His mother to take grains on the Ekādaśī day. He narrated a story that Viśvarūpa, after accepting the sannyāsa order, invited Him in a dream to accept sannyāsa also, but the Lord refused and was therefore sent back home. When Jagannātha Miśra passed away, the Lord married the daughter of Vallabhācārya, whose name was Lakṣmī. All these events are summarized in this chapter.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1512_119" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1805" link="CC Adi 15.12" link_text="CC Adi 15.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15.12|CC Adi 15.12, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hearing of this, Viśvarūpa immediately left home and went away to accept sannyāsa and travel from one place of pilgrimage to another.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1514_120" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1807" link="CC Adi 15.14" link_text="CC Adi 15.14">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15.14|CC Adi 15.14, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"My dear mother and father," the Lord said, "it is very good that Viśvarūpa has accepted the sannyāsa order, for thus He has delivered both His father's family and His mother's family."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>It is sometimes said that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu disapproved of the acceptance of the sannyāsa order in this Kali-yuga because in the śāstra it is said:</p>
:aśvamedhaṁ gavālambhaṁ sannyāsaṁ pala-paitṛkam
:devareṇa sutotpattiṁ kalau pañca vivarjayet
:([[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.164|CC Adi 17.164]])
<p>"In this Age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse in sacrifice, the offering of a cow in sacrifice, the acceptance of the order of sannyāsa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, and a man's begetting children in his brother's wife." (Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa, Kṛṣṇa-janma-khaṇḍa 185.180)</p>
<p>Nevertheless, we see that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself accepted sannyāsa and approved of the sannyāsa of His elder brother, Viśvarūpa. It is clearly said here, bhāla haila,—viśvarūpa sannyāsa karila pitṛ-kula, mātṛ-kula,—dui uddhārila. Therefore, should it be thought that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu made statements that are contradictory? No, actually He did not. It is recommended that one accept sannyāsa to dedicate his life for the service of the Lord, and everyone must take that kind of sannyāsa, for by accepting such sannyāsa one renders the best service to both his paternal and maternal families. But one should not accept the sannyāsa order of the Māyāvāda school, which has practically no meaning. We find many Māyāvādī sannyāsīs simply loitering in the street thinking themselves Brahman or Nārāyaṇa and spending all day and night begging so they can fill their hungry bellies. Māyāvādī sannyāsīs have become so degraded that there is a section of them who eat everything, just like hogs and dogs. It is such degraded sannyāsa that is prohibited in this age. Actually, Śrīla Śaṅkarācārya's principles for the acceptance of sannyāsa were very strict, but later the so-called Māyāvādī sannyāsīs became degraded because of their false philosophy, which propounds that by accepting sannyāsa one becomes Nārāyaṇa. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu rejected that kind of sannyāsa. But the acceptance of sannyāsa is one of the items of the varṇāśrama-dharma. How then can it be rejected?</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1518_121" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1811" link="CC Adi 15.18" link_text="CC Adi 15.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15.18|CC Adi 15.18, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord said, "Viśvarūpa took Me away from here, and He requested Me to accept the sannyāsa order."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1519_122" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1812" link="CC Adi 15.19" link_text="CC Adi 15.19">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15.19|CC Adi 15.19, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"I replied to Viśvarūpa, 'I have My helpless father and mother, and also I am but a child. What do I know about the sannyāsa order of life?'"</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1525_123" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1818" link="CC Adi 15.25" link_text="CC Adi 15.25">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 15.25|CC Adi 15.25, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After some days the Lord thought, "I did not take sannyāsa, and since I am remaining at home it is My duty to act as a gṛhastha."</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1618_124" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1846" link="CC Adi 16.18" link_text="CC Adi 16.18">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 16.18|CC Adi 16.18, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Tapana Miśra met Him, Caitanya Mahāprabhu was living in household life, and there was no indication that in the future He would accept the sannyāsa order. But by asking Tapana Miśra to go to Vārāṇasī, He indicated that in the future He would accept sannyāsa and that when He would teach Sanātana Gosvāmī, Tapana Miśra would take advantage of the opportunity to learn the object of life and the real process for attaining it.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1712_125" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1952" link="CC Adi 17.12" link_text="CC Adi 17.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.12|CC Adi 17.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The form of Ṣaḍ-bhuja, the six-armed Lord Gaurasundara, is a representation of three incarnations. The form of Śrī Rāmacandra is symbolized by a bow in one hand and an arrow in another, the form of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is symbolized by a stick and a flute like those generally held by a cowherd boy, and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu is symbolized by a sannyāsa-daṇḍa and a kamaṇḍalu, or waterpot.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1712_126" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="1952" link="CC Adi 17.12" link_text="CC Adi 17.12">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.12|CC Adi 17.12, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu was born in the village of Ekacakrā, in the district of Birbhum, as the son of Padmāvatī and Hāḍāi Paṇḍita. In His childhood He played like Balarāma. When He was growing up, a sannyāsī came to the house of Hāḍāi Paṇḍita and begged to have the paṇḍita's son as his brahmacārī assistant. Hāḍāi Paṇḍita immediately agreed and delivered his son to him, although the separation was greatly shocking, so much so that Hāḍāi lost his life after the separation. Nityānanda Prabhu traveled on many pilgrimages with the sannyāsī.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1771_127" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2008" link="CC Adi 17.71" link_text="CC Adi 17.71">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.71|CC Adi 17.71, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">On the mahā-prakāśa day, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu embraced Haridāsa Ṭhākura and informed him that he was none other than an incarnation of Prahlāda Mahārāja. When Viśvarūpa took sannyāsa, Śacīmātā thought that Advaita Ācārya had persuaded Him to do so. Therefore she accused Advaita Ācārya of this, which was an offense at His lotus feet. Later Lord Caitanya induced His mother to take the dust of Advaita Ācārya's lotus feet, and thus her vaiṣṇava-aparādha was nullified.</p>
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<div id="CCAdi1776_128" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2013" link="CC Adi 17.76" link_text="CC Adi 17.76">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.76|CC Adi 17.76, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"(The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, said:) 'My dear Uddhava, neither through aṣṭāṅga-yoga (the mystic yoga system to control the senses), nor through impersonal monism or an analytical study of the Absolute Truth, nor through study of the Vedas, nor through austerities, charity or acceptance of sannyāsa can one satisfy Me as much as by developing unalloyed devotional service unto Me.'"</p>
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<div id="CCAdi17164_129" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="2101" link="CC Adi 17.164" link_text="CC Adi 17.164">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.164|CC Adi 17.164, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"In this Age of Kali, five acts are forbidden: the offering of a horse in sacrifice, the offering of a cow in sacrifice, the acceptance of the order of sannyāsa, the offering of oblations of flesh to the forefathers, and a man's begetting children in his brother's wife."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>This is a quotation from the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa (Kṛṣṇa-janma-khaṇḍa 185.180).</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.250|CC Adi 17.250, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was in the mood of the gopīs and the student advocated the cause of Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Lord Caitanya was greatly angry. Seeing His anger, the foolish student, who was an ordinary atheistic smārta-brāhmaṇa, foolishly misjudged Him. Thus he and a party of students were ready to strike the Lord in retaliation. After this incident, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu decided to take sannyāsa so that people would not commit offenses against Him, considering Him an ordinary householder, for in India even now a sannyāsī is naturally offered respect.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.265|CC Adi 17.265, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">"I shall accept the sannyāsa order of life, for thus people will offer Me their obeisances, thinking of Me as a member of the renounced order."</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Among the members of the varṇāśrama institution's social orders (brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya and śūdra), the brāhmaṇa is considered the foremost, for he is the teacher and spiritual master of all the other varṇas. Similarly, among the spiritual orders (brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa), the sannyāsa order is the most elevated. Therefore a sannyāsī is the spiritual master of all the varṇas and āśramas, and a brāhmaṇa is also expected to offer obeisances to a sannyāsī. Unfortunately, however, caste brāhmaṇas do not offer obeisances to a Vaiṣṇava sannyāsī. They are so proud that they do not offer obeisances even to Indian sannyāsīs, what to speak of European and American sannyāsīs. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, however, expected that even the caste brāhmaṇas would offer respectful obeisances to a sannyāsī because five hundred years ago the social custom was to offer obeisances immediately to any sannyāsī, known or unknown.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.265|CC Adi 17.265, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The sannyāsīs of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement are bona fide. All the students of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement have undergone the regular process of initiation. As enjoined in the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa by Sanātana Gosvāmī, tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena dvijatvaṁ jāyate nṛṇām: by the regular process of initiation, any man can become a brāhmaṇa. Thus in the beginning the students of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement agree to live with devotees, and gradually, having given up four prohibited activities—illicit sex, gambling, meat-eating and intoxication—they become advanced in the activities of spiritual life. When one is found to be regularly following these principles, he is given the first initiation (hari-nāma), and he regularly chants at least sixteen rounds a day. Then, after six months or a year, he is initiated for the second time and given the sacred thread with the regular sacrifice and rituals. After some time, when he advances still further and is willing to give up this material world, he is given the sannyāsa order. At that time he receives the title svāmī or gosvāmī, both of which mean "master of the senses." Unfortunately, debauched so-called brāhmaṇas in India neither offer them respect nor accept them as bona fide sannyāsīs. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu expected the so-called brāhmaṇas to offer respect to such Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs. Nevertheless, it does not matter whether they offer respect, nor whether they accept these sannyāsīs as bona fide, for the śāstra describes punishment for such disobedient so-called brāhmaṇas. The śāstric injunction declares:</p>
:devatā-pratimāṁ dṛṣṭvā yatiṁ caiva tridaṇḍinam
:namaskāraṁ na kuryād yaḥ prāyaścittīyate naraḥ
<p>"One who does not offer respect to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to His Deity in the temple or to a tridaṇḍī sannyāsī must undergo prāyaścitta (atonement)." If one does not offer obeisances to such a sannyāsī, the prescribed prāyaścitta is to fast for one day.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.266|CC Adi 17.266, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the Vedic injunctions, only a brāhmaṇa may be offered sannyāsa. The Śaṅkara-sampradāya (ekadaṇḍa-sannyāsa-sampradāya) awards the sannyāsa order only to caste brāhmaṇas, or born brāhmaṇas, but in the Vaiṣṇava system even one not born in a brāhmaṇa family may be made a brāhmaṇa according to the direction of the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena dvijatvaṁ jāyate nṛṇām). Any person from any part of the world may be made a brāhmaṇa by the regular process of initiation, and when he follows brahminical behavior, observing the principle of abstaining from intoxication, illicit sex, meat-eating and gambling, he may be offered sannyāsa.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.266|CC Adi 17.266, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">All the sannyāsīs in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, who are preaching all over the world, are regular brāhmaṇa-sannyāsīs. Thus the so-called caste brāhmaṇas should not object to offering them respectful obeisances. By offering such obeisances, as recommended by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they will diminish their offenses and automatically awaken to their natural position of devotional service. As it is said, nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema sādhya kabhu naya: (Cc. madhya 22.107) kṛṣṇa-prema can be awakened in a purified heart. The more we offer obeisances to sannyāsīs, especially Vaiṣṇava sannyāsīs, the more we diminish our offenses and purify our hearts. Only in a purified heart can kṛṣṇa-prema awaken. This is the process of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu's cult, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.269|CC Adi 17.269, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">According to the system of Vedic society, whenever an unknown sannyāsī comes to a village or town, someone must invite him to take prasādam in his home. Sannyāsīs generally take prasādam in the house of a brāhmaṇa because the brāhmaṇa worships the Lord Nārāyaṇa śilā, or śālagrāma-śilā, and therefore there is prasādam that the sannyāsī may take. Keśava Bhāratī accepted the invitation of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Thus the Lord had a good opportunity to explain His desire to take sannyāsa from him.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.272|CC Adi 17.272, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">After saying this, Keśava Bhāratī, the spiritual master, went back to his village, Katwa. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu went there and accepted the renounced order of life (sannyāsa).</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.272|CC Adi 17.272, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">At the end of His twenty-fourth year, at the end of the fortnight of the waxing moon, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu left Navadvīpa and crossed the river Ganges at a place known as Nidayāra-ghāṭa. Then He reached Kaṇṭaka-nagara, or Kāṭoyā (Katwa), where He accepted ekadaṇḍa-sannyāsa according to the Śaṅkarite system. Since Keśava Bhāratī belonged to the Śaṅkarite sect, he could not initiate Caitanya Mahāprabhu into the Vaiṣṇava sannyāsa order, whose members carry the tridaṇḍa.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.272|CC Adi 17.272, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Candraśekhara Ācārya assisted in the routine ceremonial work of the Lord's acceptance of sannyāsa. By the order of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, kīrtana was performed for the entire day, and at the end of the day the Lord shaved off His hair. On the next day He became a regular sannyāsī, with one rod (ekadaṇḍa). From that day on, His name was Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. Before that, He was known as Nimāi Paṇḍita. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in the sannyāsa order, traveled all over Rāḍhadeśa, the region where the Ganges River cannot be seen. Keśava Bhāratī accompanied Him for some distance.</p>
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 17.273|CC Adi 17.273, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted sannyāsa, three personalities were with Him to perform all the necessary activities. They were Nityānanda Prabhu, Candraśekhara Ācārya and Mukunda Datta.</p>
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