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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
jealous persons criticize the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement because it engages equally both boys and girls in distributing love of Godhead. Not knowing that boys and girls in countries like Europe and America mix very freely, these fools and rascals criticize the boys and girls in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for intermingling. But these rascals should consider that one cannot suddenly change a community's social customs. However, since both the boys and girls are being trained to become preachers, those girls are not ordinary girls but are as good as their brothers who are preaching Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore, to engage both boys and girls in fully transcendental activities is a policy intended to spread the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. These jealous fools who criticize the intermingling of boys and girls will simply have to be satisfied with their own foolishness because they cannot think of how to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness by adopting ways and means which are favorable for this purpose. Their stereotyped methods will never help spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Therefore, what we are doing is perfect by the grace of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for it is He who proposed to invent a way to capture those who strayed from Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
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এত বলি’ মনে কিছু করিয়া বিচার।
সন্ন্যাস-আশ্রম প্রচু কৈলা অঙ্গীকার ॥ ৩৩ ॥
eta bali' mane kichu kariyā vicāra sannyāsa-āśrama prabhu kailā aṅgīkāra
SYNONYMS
eta bali' —saying this;  mane —within the mind;  kichu —something;  kariyā —doing;  vicāra —consideration;  sannyāsa-āśrama —the renounced order of life;  prabhu —the Lord;  kailā —did;  aṅgīkāra —accept.
TRANSLATION
Thus the Lord accepted the sannyāsa order of life after full consideration.
PURPORT
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 ,  śudra ,  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