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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
SYNONYMS
upekṣā —neglecting them;  kariyā —doing so;  kaila —did;  mathurā —the town named Mathurā;  gamana —traveling;  mathurā —Mathurā;  dekhiyā —after seeing it;  punaḥ —again;  kaila āgamana —came back.
TRANSLATION
Thus neglecting the blasphemy of the Vārāṇasī Māyāvādīs, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu proceeded to Mathurā, and after visiting Mathurā He returned to meet the situation.
PURPORT
Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not talk with the Māyāvādī philosophers when He first visited Vārāṇasī, but He returned there from Mathurā to convince them of the real purpose of Vedānta.
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काशीते लेखक शुद्ध-श्रीवृक्षशेखर ।
तौर घरे रहिला प्रभु स्वतंत्र शेखर ॥ 8৫ ॥
kāśīte lekhaka śūdra-śrīcandraśekhara tāṅra ghare rahilā prabhu svatantra īśvara
SYNONYMS
kāśīte —in Vārāṇasī;  lekhaka —writer;  śūdra —born of a  śūdra  family;  śrī-candra-śekhara —of the name Candraśekhara;  tāṅra ghare —in his house;  rahilā —remained;  prabhu —the Lord;  svatantra —independent;  īśvara —the supreme controller.
TRANSLATION
This time Lord Caitanya stayed at the house of Candraśekhara, although he was regarded as a śūdra or kāyastha, for the Lord, as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is completely independent.
PURPORT
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  śūdra  non- brāhmaṇas . Therefore although Śrī Candraśekhara was a clerk from a  kāyastha  family in upper India, he was considered a  śūdra . Similarly,  vaiśyas , especially those of the  suvarṇa-vaṇik  community, were accepted as  śūdras  in Bengal, and even the  vaidyas , who were generally physicians, were also considered  śūdras . Lord Caitanya