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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Ādi-līlā, Ch. 12]
pañcama varṣera bālaka kahe siddhāntera sāra śuniyā pāilā ācārya santoṣa apāra
SYNONYMS
pañcama —five;  varṣera —years;  bālaka —small boy;  kahe —says;  siddhāntera —conclusive;  sāra —essence;  śuniyā —hearing;  pāilā —got;  ācārya —Advaita Ācārya;  santoṣa —satisfaction;  apāra —very much.
TRANSLATION
When Advaita Ācārya heard this statement from His five-year-old son Acyutānanda, He felt great satisfaction because of his conclusive judgement.
PURPORT
Commenting on verses 13 through 17, Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura gives an extensive description of the descendants of Advaita Ācārya. The  Caitanya-bhāgavata ,  Antya-khaṇḍa , Chapter Nine, states that Acyutānanda was the eldest son of Advaita Ācārya. The Sanskrit book  Advaita-carita  states, “Advaita Ācārya Prabhu had three sons named Acyuta, Kṛṣṇa Miśra and Gopāla dāsa, all born of the womb of His wife Sītādevī, who were devotees of Lord Caitanya. Advaita Ācārya also had three more sons, whose names were Balarāma, Svarūpa and Jagadīśa. Thus there were six sons of Advaita Ācārya.” Among the six sons, three were strict followers of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and of these three, Acyutānanda was the eldest.
Advaita Prabhu married in the beginning of the Fifteenth Century  śakābda . When Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to visit the village of Rāmakeli while going from Jagannātha Purī to Vṛndāvana during the  śakābda  years 1433 and 1434, Acyutānanda was only five years old. The  Caitanya-bhāgavata ,  Antya-khaṇḍa , Fourth Chapter, describes Acyutānanda at that time as  pañca-varṣa vayasa madhura digambara , “only five years old and standing naked.” Therefore it is to be concluded that Acyutānanda was born sometime in the year 1428. Before the birth of Acyutānanda, Advaita Prabhu’s wife, Sītādevī, came to see Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu at His birth. Thus it is not impossible that she had the other three sons by Advaita within the twenty-one years between 1407 and 1428  śakābda . In an unauthorized book of the name  Sītādvaita-carita  published in Bengali in the unauthorized newspaper  Nityānanda-dāyinī  in 1792  śakābda , it is mentioned that Acyutānanda was a class friend of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. According to  Caitanya-bhāgavata , this statement is not at all valid. When Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted the renounced order of  sannyāsa , He came to the house of Advaita Prabhu at Śāntipura in the year 1431  śakābda . At that time, as stated in  Caitanya-bhāgavata ,  Antya-khaṇḍa , Chapter One, Acyutānanda was only three years old. The  Caitanya-bhāgavata  further states that the naked child, the son of Advaita Prabhu, immediately came and fell down at the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The Lord immediately took him on His lap, although he was not very clean, having dust all over his body. Lord Caitanya said, “My dear Acyuta, Advaita Ācārya is My father, and thus we are brothers.”
Before Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu exhibited His spiritual forms during His residence at Navadvīpa, He asked Śrī Rāma Paṇḍita, Śrinivāsa Ācārya’s brother, to go to