Tevy 86 July 2014
Lord Caitanya at the House of Advaita Acārya
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other words, Nityānanda Prabhu had nothing to do with the rules governing  smārta-brāhmaṇas . Thus under pretense of condemning Him, Advaita Ācārya was actually praising Him. In the  avadhūta  stage, the  paramahaṁsa  stage, which is the supermost stage, one may appear to be  viṣayī , on the platform of sense gratification, but in actuality he has nothing to do with sense gratification. At that stage, a person sometimes accepts the symptoms and dress of a  sannyāsī  and sometimes does not. Sometimes he dresses like a house-holder. We should know, however, that these are all joking words between Advaita Ācārya and Nityānanda Prabhu. They are not to be taken as insults.
In Khaḍadaha, sometimes people misunderstood Nityānanda Prabhu to belong to the  śākta-sampradāya , whose philosophy is  antaḥ śāktaḥ bahiḥ śaivaḥ sabhāyāṁ vaiṣṇavo mataḥ . According to the  śākta-sampradāya , a person called  kaulāvadhūta  thinks materially while externally appearing to be a great devotee of Lord Śiva. When such a person is in an assembly of Vaiṣṇavas, he appears like a Vaiṣṇava. Actually Nityānanda Prabhu did not belong to such a community. Nityānanda Prabhu was always a  brahmacārī  of a  sannyāsī  of the  vaidika  order. Actually He was a  paramahaṁsa . Sometimes He is accepted to be a disciple of Lakṣmīpati Tīrtha. If He is so accepted, Nityānanda Prabhu belonged to the Madhva-sampradāya. He did not belong to the  tāntrika-sampradāya  of Bengal.
TEXT 86
ভূমি খেতে পার দশ-বিশ মানের অল্প । আমি তাহা কাঁহা পাব দরিদ্র ব্রাহ্মণ ॥ ৮৬ ॥
tumi khete pāra daśa-viśa mānera anna āmi tāhā kāṅhā pāba daridra brāhmaṇa
SYNONYMS
tumi —You;  khete —to eat;  pāra —able;  daśa-viśa —ten or twenty;  mānera —of the measurement of a  māna ;  anna —rice;  āmi —l;  tāhā —that;  kāṅhā —where;  pāba —shall get;  daridra —poverty-stricken;  brāhmaṇa —brāhmaṇa.
TRANSLATION
Advaita Ācārya  accused Nityānanda Prabhu, saying, “You can eat ten to twenty mānas of rice. I am a poor brāhmaṇa. How shall I get so much rice?