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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
lakṣa lakṣa loka āise prabhuke dekhite mahā-bhiḍa haila dvāre, nāre praveśite
SYNONYMS
lakṣa lakṣa —hundreds and thousands;  loka —people;  āise —came;  prabhuke —unto the Lord;  dekhite —to see;  mahā-bhiḍa —a great crowd;  haila —there happened;  dvāre —at the door;  nāre —may not;  praveśite —to enter.
TRANSLATION
The crowd at the door of His residence was so great that it numbered hundreds and thousands.
TEXT 157
প্রভু যবে যান বিশ্বেশ্বর-দরশনে ।   লক্ষ লক্ষ লোক আসি’ মিলে সেই স্থানে ॥ ১৫৭ ॥
prabhu yabe yā’na viśveśvara-daraśane lakṣa lakṣa loka āsi’ mile sei sthāne
SYNONYMS
prabhu —Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  yabe —when;  yā’na —goes;  viśveśvara —the deity of Vārāṇasī;  daraśane —to visit;  lakṣa lakṣa —hundreds and thousands;  loka —people;  āsi’ —come;  mile —meet;  sei —that;  sthāne —on the place.
TRANSLATION
When the Lord went to visit the temple of Viśveśvara, hundreds and thousands of people assembled to see Him.
PURPORT
The important point in this verse is that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu regularly visited the temple of Viśveśvara (Lord Śiva) at Vārāṇasī. Vaiṣṇavas generally do not visit a demigod’s temple, but here we see that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu regularly visited the temple of Viśveśvara, who was the predominating deity of Vārāṇasī. Generally Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  and worshipers of Lord Śiva live in Vārāṇasī, but how is it that Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who took the part of a Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī , also visited the Viśveśvara temple? The answer is that a Vaiṣṇava does not behave impudently toward the demigods. A Vaiṣṇava gives proper respect to all, although he never accepts a demigod to be as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
In the  Brahma-saṁhitā  there are  mantras  offering obeisances to Lord Śiva, Lord Brahmā, the sun-god and Lord Gaṇeśa, as well as Lord Viṣṇu, all of whom are worshiped by the impersonalists as  pañcopāsanā . In their temples impersonalists also