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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
PURPORT
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. Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī wrote a number of books, among which are  Caitanya-candrāmṛta ,  Rādhā-rasa-sudhā-nidhi ,  Saṅgīta-mādhava ,  Vṛndāvana-śataka  and  Navadvīpa-śataka . While traveling in Southern India, Caitanya Mahāprabhu met Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, who had two brothers, Vyeṅkaṭa Bhaṭṭa and Tirumalaya Bhaṭṭa, who were Vaiṣṇavas of the Rāmānuja-sampradāya. Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī was the nephew of Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī. From historical records it is found that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu traveled in South India in the year 1433  śakābda  during the Cāturmāsya period, and it was at that time that He met Prabodhānanda, who belonged to the Rāmānuja-sampradāya. How then could the same person meet Him as a member of the Śaṅkara-sampradāya in 1435  śakābda , two years later? It is to be concluded that the guess of the  sahijiyā-samprādaya  that Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī and Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī were the same man is a mistaken idea.
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এইমতে তাঁ-সবার ক্ষমি' অপরাধ। সবাকারে কৃষ্ণনাম করিলা প্রসাদ ॥ ১৫০ ॥
eimate tāṅ-sabāra kṣami' aparādha sabākāre kṛṣṇa-nāma karilā prasāda
SYNONYMS
ei-mate —in this way;  tāṅ-sabāra —of all the  sannyāsīs ;  kṣami' —excusing;  aparādha —offense;  sabākāre —all of them;  kṛṣṇa-nāma —the holy name of Kṛṣṇa;  karilā —gave;  prasāda —as mercy.
TRANSLATION
Thus Lord Caitanya excused all the offenses of the Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  and very mercifully blessed them with Kṛṣṇa-nāma.
PURPORT
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