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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><br />
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<div class="heading">Śrī Raghunātha dāsa was the son of Govardhana Majumadāra. Their family priest was Balarāma Ācārya, who was a favorite of Haridāsa Ṭhākura's, and the family's spiritual master was Yadunandana Ācārya, a favorite of Vāsudeva Datta's.<br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 16.217|CC Madhya 16.217, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Hiraṇya and Govardhana were inhabitants of Saptagrāma in the district of Hugli. Actually they were inhabitants not of Saptagrāma but of a nearby village named Kṛṣṇapura. They took their birth in a big kāyastha family, and although their family title has not been ascertained, it is known that they came from an aristocratic family. The elder brother's name was Hiraṇya Majumadāra, and the younger brother's name was Govardhana Majumadāra. Śrī Raghunātha dāsa was the son of Govardhana Majumadāra. Their family priest was Balarāma Ācārya, who was a favorite of Haridāsa Ṭhākura's, and the family's spiritual master was Yadunandana Ācārya, a favorite of Vāsudeva Datta's.</p><br />
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<div class="heading">From Benāpola, Haridāsa Ṭhākura went to the village known as Cāndapura, where he lived at the house of Balarāma Ācārya.<br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3 Summary|CC Antya 3 Summary]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">After describing this incident, the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta also describes how Haridāsa Ṭhākura was tested at Benāpola, a village near Śāntipura. A person named Rāmacandra Khān, who was envious of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, sent a professional prostitute to attempt to defame him, but by the mercy of Haridāsa Ṭhākura, even the prostitute was delivered. Because of offending a pure Vaiṣṇava, Rāmacandra Khān was later cursed by Nityānanda Prabhu and ruined.</p><br />
<p>From Benāpola, Haridāsa Ṭhākura went to the village known as Cāndapura, where he lived at the house of Balarāma Ācārya. Thereafter, Haridāsa Ṭhākura was received by two brothers known as Hiraṇya and Govardhana Majumadāra, but in the course of a discussion he was offended by a caste brāhmaṇa known as Gopāla Cakravartī. Because of this offense, Gopāla Cakravartī was punished by being afflicted with leprosy.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.165|CC Antya 3.165, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Haridāsa Ṭhākura walked until he came to the village known as Cāndapura. There he stayed at the house of Balarāma Ācārya.</p><br />
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<div class="heading">In Cāndapura lived Balarāma Ācārya and Yadunandana Ācārya, the priests of these two personalities, and when Haridāsa Ṭhākura went there he lived with them.<br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.165|CC Antya 3.165, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">The village of Cāndapura is situated near the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamunā at Saptagrāma, in the district of Huglī. Cāndapura is just east of the house of the two brothers Govardhana and Hiraṇya, the father and uncle of Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī respectively. In Cāndapura lived Balarāma Ācārya and Yadunandana Ācārya, the priests of these two personalities, and when Haridāsa Ṭhākura went there he lived with them. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura says that the name of this village was later changed to Kṛṣṇapura.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.166|CC Antya 3.166, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Hiraṇya and Govardhana were the two governmental treasurers in that division of the country. Their priest was named Balarāma Ācārya.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.167|CC Antya 3.167, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Balarāma Ācārya, being favored by Haridāsa Ṭhākura, was very much attached to him. Therefore he kept Haridāsa Ṭhākura in the village with great care and attention.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.168|CC Antya 3.168, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the village, Haridāsa Ṭhākura was given a solitary thatched cottage, where he performed the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. He accepted prasādam at the house of Balarāma Ācārya.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.172|CC Antya 3.172, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">One day Balarāma Ācārya requested Haridāsa Ṭhākura with great humility to come to the assembly of the Majumadāras, Hiraṇya and Govardhana. Thus Balarāma Ācārya went there with Haridāsa Ṭhākura.</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.201|CC Antya 3.201, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The priest named Balarāma Ācārya also chastised Gopāla Cakravartī. "You are a foolish logician," he said. “What do you know about the devotional service of the Lord?</p><br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.214|CC Antya 3.214, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Haridāsa Ṭhākura was unhappy when he heard that the brāhmaṇa Gopāla Cakravartī had been attacked by leprosy. Thus after informing Balarāma Ācārya, the priest of Hiraṇya Majumadāra, he went to Śāntipura, the home of Advaita Ācārya.</p><br />
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2><br />
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<div class="heading">The priest named Balarāma Ācārya chastised Gopāla Cakravartī. "You are a foolish logician," he said. "What do you know about the devotional service of the Lord?"<br />
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:RTW 3.1|Renunciation Through Wisdom 3.1]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Jñāna-yoga should never be interpreted to mean the ascending process of enquiry, the inductive method, through which one aims only at separating reality from illusion by gradually rejecting the unreal. It is impossible to attain perfect knowledge without serving the Supreme Lord, who is full with all opulences and potencies, whose bodily luster is the Brahman effulgence, and whose partial expansion is the Supersoul. The brāhmaṇa Gopāla Cakravartī believed that jñāna, perfect knowledge, is far superior to devotional service of the Lord. But as recorded in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta ([[Vanisource:CC Antya 3.201|CC Antya 3.201]]):</p><br />
:balāi-purohita tāre karilā bhartsana<br />
:"ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tumi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?"<br />
<p>The priest named Balarāma Ācārya chastised Gopāla Cakravartī. "You are a foolish logician," he said. "What do you know about the devotional service of the Lord?"</p><br />
<p>If one pretends to be a devotee of the Lord but does not understand the difference between dry speculative knowledge and knowledge of the Supreme Absolute Truth, then such a person's devotion borders on impersonalism and is rank with cheap sentimentalism, which is totally against the spiritual teachings of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.</p><br />
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