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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
sannyāsī  is considered to be the master of all  varṇas  and  āśramas .
While He was contemplating accepting the  sannyāsa  order, it so happened that Keśava Bhāratī, a  sannyāsī  of the Māyāvādī school and resident of Katwa (in Bengal), visited Navadvīpa and was invited to dine with the Lord. When Keśava Bhāratī came to His house, the Lord asked him to award Him the  sannyāsa  order of life. This was a matter of formality. A  sannyāsa  order is to be accepted from another  sannyāsī . Although the Lord was independent in all respects, still, to keep up the formalities of the  śāstras , He accepted the  sannyāsa  order from Keśava Bhāratī, although Keśava Bhāratī was not in the Vaiṣṇava  sampradāya  (school).
After consulting with Keśava Bhāratī, the Lord left Navadvīpa for Katwa to formally accept the  sannyāsa  order of life. He was accompanied by Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu, Candraśekhara Ācārya, and Mukunda Datta. These three assisted Him in the details of the ceremony. The incidence of the Lord's accepting the  sannyāsa  order is very elaborately described in the  Caitanya-bhāgavata  by Śrīla Vṛndāvana-dāsa Thākur.
Thus at the end of His twenty-fourth year the Lord accepted the  sannyāsa  order of life in the month of  Māgha . After accepting this order He became a full-fledged preacher of the  Bhāgavata-dharma . Although He was doing the same preaching work in His householder life, when He experienced some obstacles to His preaching, He sacrificed even the comfort of His home life for the sake of the fallen souls. In His householder life His chief assistants were Śrīla Advaita Prabhu and Śrīla Śrīvāsa Thākur, but after He accepted the  sannyāsa  order His chief assistants became Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu, who was deputed to preach specifically in Bengal, and the six Gosvāmīs (Rūpa Gosvāmī, Sanātana Gosvāmī, Jīva Gosvāmī, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Raghunātha Dāsa Gosvāmī, and Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī), headed by Śrīla Rūpa and Sanātana, who were deputed to go to Vṛndāvana to excavate the present places of pilgrimage. The present city of Vṛndāvana and the importance of Vrajabhūmi were thus disclosed by the will of Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
The Lord, after accepting the  sannyāsa  order, at once wanted to start for Vṛndāvana. For three continual days He travelled in the Radha Desha (places where the Ganges does not flow). He was in full ecstasy over the idea of going to Vṛndāvana. However, Śrīla Nityānanda Prabhu diverted His path and brought Him instead to the house of Advaita Prabhu in Śāntipura. The Lord stayed at Śrī Advaita Prabhu's house for a few days, and knowing well that the Lord was leaving His hearth and home for good, Śrī Advaita Prabhu sent his men to Navadvīpa to bring mother Śacī to have a last meeting with her son. Some unscrupulous people say that