Ādi-līlā, Chapter 3
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śeṣa-līlāya dhare nāma 'śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya' śrī-kṛṣṇa jānāye saba viśva kaila dhanya
SYNONYMS
śeṣa-līlāya —in His final pastimes;  dhare —He held;  nāma —the name;  śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya —Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya;  śrī-kṛṣṇa —about Lord Kṛṣṇa;  jānāye —He taught;  saba —all;  viśva —the world;  kaila —made;  dhanya —fortunate.
TRANSLATION
In His later pastimes He is known as Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. He blesses the whole world by teaching about the name and fame of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
PURPORT
Lord Caitanya remained a householder only until His twenty-fourth year had passed. Then He entered the renounced order and remained manifest in this material world until His forty-eighth year. Therefore  śeṣa-līlā , or the final portion of His activities, lasted twenty-four years.
Some so-called  Vaiṣṇavas  say that the renounced order of life is not accepted in the  Vaiṣṇava sampradāya , or disciplic succession, from 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  Viṣṇusvāmī . In the  Viṣṇusvāmī 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 .
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 .
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