CHAPTER TWO
Sanatan Goswami
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, by whose mercy even a person in the lowest status of life can find direction in transcendental devotional service to the Lord.
After Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu accepted the renounced order of life,  Sannyasa , He travelled all over India. During this period, He went to Maldaha, a district in Bengal, and in that portion of the land there was a village by the name of Ramkeli. Two government ministers of the Nawab Hussain Shah's regime lived there, namely Dabir Khas and Shakar Mallik, later renamed Sanatan Goswami and Rupa Goswami. They had a chance to meet Lord Chaitanya, and after meeting Him they decided that they would retire from the government service and join His Samkirtan movement. The two brothers at once took steps to leave their material engagements, and appointed two learned  Brahmins  to perform certain Vedic religious rituals in order to achieve complete freedom for the devotional service of Krishna.
These preliminary activities are known as  Purascharya . The ritual function
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