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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
[Ādi-līlā, Ch. 16]
SYNONYMS
prabhura —Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu's;  atarkya-līlā —inconceivable pastimes;  bujhite —to understand;  nā —not;  pāri —able;  sva-saṅga —personal association;  chāḍāñā —avoiding;  kene —why;  pāṭhāya —sends;  kāśīpurī —to Benares.
TRANSLATION
I cannot understand the inconceivable pastimes of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, for although Tapana Miśra wanted to live with Him in Navadvīpa, the Lord advised him to go to Vārāṇasī.
PURPORT
When Tapana Miśra met Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Lord Caitanya was living in household life, and there was no indication that in the future He would accept the  sannyāsa  order. But by asking Tapana Miśra to go to Vārāṇasī He indicated that in the future He would accept  sannyāsa  and that when He would teach Sanātana Gosvāmī, Tapana Miśra would take advantage of the opportunity to learn the object of life and the real process of attaining it.
TEXT 19
এই মত বক্সের লোকের কৈলা মহা হিত।  
 ‘নাম’ মিয়া ভক্ত কৈল, পতাঞা পণ্ডিত ॥ ১৯ ॥
ei mata baṅgera lokera kailā mahā hita  
 ‘nāma’ diyā bhakta kaila, paḍāñā paṇḍita
SYNONYMS
ei mata —in this way;  baṅgera —of East Bengal;  lokera —of the people;  kailā —contributed;  mahā —great;  hita —benefit;  nāma —the holy name of the Lord;  diyā —giving them;  bhakta —devotees;  kaila —made them;  paḍāñā —by educating them;  paṇḍita —learned scholars.
TRANSLATION
In this way Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu contributed the greatest benefit to the people of East Bengal by initiating them into hari-nāma, the chanting of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, and making them learned scholars by educating them.
PURPORT
Following in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is distributing the Hare Kṛṣṇa  mahā-mantra  and inducing people all over the world to chant. We are giving people an immense treasury of transcendental literature, translated into all the important languages of the world, and by the grace of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu this literature is selling profusely, and people are