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Rāmacandra Puri Criticizes the Lord
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Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Țhākura comments that although Rāmacandra Purī was naturally very envious and although he was against the principles of Vaiṣṇavism—or, in other words, against the principles of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees—common people nevertheless addressed him as Gosvāmī or Gosāñi because he was superficially in the renounced order and dressed like a  sannyāsī . In the modern age the title  gosvāmī  is used by a caste of  gṛhasthas , but formerly it was not. Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī, for example, were called  gosvāmī  because they were in the renounced order. Similarly, because Paramānanda Purī was a  sannyāsī , he was called Purī Gosvāmī. By careful scrutiny, therefore, one will find that  gosvāmī  is not the title for a certain caste; rather, it is properly the title for a person in the renounced order.
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মহাপ্রভু কৈলা তাঁরে দণ্ডবৎ নতি । আলিদন করি’ তেঁহো কৈল কৃষ্ণস্মৃতি ॥ ৯ ॥
mahāprabhu  kailā tāṅre daṇḍavat nati āliṅgana kari’ teṅho kaila kṛṣṇa-smṛti
SYNONYMS
mahāprabhu —Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  kailā —did;  tāṅre —unto him;  daṇ-ḍavat nati —offering obeisances;  āliṅgana kari’ —embracing;  teṅho —Rāmacandra Purī;  kaila —did;  kṛṣṇa-smṛti —remembrance of Kṛṣṇa.
TRANSLATION
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu  also offered obeisances unto  Rāmacandra Purī , who then embraced  Him  and thus remembered  Krṣṇa .
PURPORT
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered obeisances to Rāmacandra Purī in consideration of his being a disciple of Śrīla Mādhavendra Purī, the spiritual master of His own spiritual master, Īśvara Purī. When a Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī  meets another Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī , they both remember Kṛṣṇa. Even Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  generally remember Nārāyaṇa, who is also Kṛṣṇa, by saying  orṅ namo bhagavate nārāyaṇa  or  namo nārāyaṇa . Thus it is the duty of a  sannyāsī  to remember Kṛṣṇa. According to  smṛti-śāstra , a  sannyāsī  does not offer obeisances or blessings to anyone. It is said,  sannyāsī nirāśīr nirnamaṣkriyaḥ : a  sannyāsī  should not offer anyone blessings or obeisances.