Ādi-līlā, Chapter 7
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is exemplified. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not like to see Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  because He thought of them as offenders to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, but here He excuses them ( tāṅ-sabāra kṣami' aparādha ). This is an example in preaching.  Āpani ācari' bhakti-śikhāimu sabāre . Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu teaches us that those whom preachers meet are almost all offenders who are opposed to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but it is a preacher's duty to convince them of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement and then induce them to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra . Our propagation of the  saṅkīrtana  movement is continuing, despite many opponents, and people are taking this chanting process even in remote parts of the world like Africa. By inducing the offenders to chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mantra , Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu exemplified the success of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. We should follow very respectfully in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya, and there is no doubt that we shall be successful in our attempts.
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তবে সব সন্ন্যাসী মহাপ্রভুকে লৈয়া।
ভিক্ষা করিলেন সঙ্গে, মধ্যে বসাইয়া ॥ ১৫১ ॥
tabe saba sannyāsī mahāprabhuke laiyā bhikṣā karilena sabhe, madhye vasāiyā
SYNONYMS
tabe —after this;  saba —all;  sannyāsī —the Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs ;  mahāprabhuke —Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  laiyā —taking Him;  bhikṣā karilena —took  prasāda  or took lunch;  sabhe —all together;  madhye —in the middle;  vasāiyā —seating Him.
TRANSLATION
After this, all the  sannyāsīs  took the Lord in their midst, and thus they all took their meal together.
PURPORT
Previously Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu neither mixed nor talked with the Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs , but now He is taking lunch with them. It is to be concluded that when Lord Caitanya induced them to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and excused them for their offenses, they were purified, and therefore there was no objection to taking lunch or  Bhagavat-prasāda  with them, although Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu knew that the foodstuffs were not offered to the Deity. Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  do not worship the Deity, or if they do so they generally worship the deity of Lord Śiva or the  pañcopāsanā  (Lord Viṣṇu, Lord Śiva, Durgādevī, Gaṇeśa and Sūrya). Here we do not find any mention of the demigods or Viṣṇu, and yet Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted food in the midst of the  sannyāsīs  on the basis that they had chanted the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra  and that He had excused their offenses.