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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
of this process is that three times a day one has to worship and offer respects to one's forefathers, offer oblation to the fire, and respectfully offer foodstuffs to a learned Brahmin. Five items; the time, the worship, the offering of respect, the offering of oblation into the fire, and the offering of foodstuffs to a Brahmin; comprise  Purascharya . In the  Hari Bhakti Vilas , the directional authoritative book, these rituals are mentioned.
After performance of these religious rituals, the younger brother Shakar Mallik (Rupa Goswami), returned to his home with an immense amount of money which he had acquired during his government service. The silver and gold coins he brought back filled a large boat. After arriving home he divided the accumulated wealth first into two, and distributed one part to the Brahmins and Vaishnavas. Thus, for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he distributed fifty per cent of his accumulated wealth to persons engaged in the Supreme Lord's transcendental loving service. The Brahmins are meant to understand the Absolute Truth; and thereafter, when one is actually engaged in the loving service of the Lord, he is called a Vaishnava. Both the Brahmins and the Vaishnavas are supposed to be fully engaged in transcendental service, and Rupa Goswami, considering their important transcendental position, gave them fifty per cent of his wealth. The balance was again divided into two: one part he distributed to his relatives or dependent family members, and the other he kept against personal emergency.
This distribution of personal wealth is very instructive for all who desire to be elevated to the advancement of spiritual knowledge. Generally, a person bequeaths all his accumulated wealth to the family members, and then retires from family activities for progress in spiritual knowledge. But here we find the exemplary behavior of Rupa Goswami: he gave fifty per cent of his wealth for spiritual purposes. This should be the example for every one of us. The twenty-five per cent of his accumulated wealth which he kept against personal emergency he deposited with a good business firm, since in those days there were no banks. Another ten thousand coins were deposited for expenditures by his elder brother, Sanatan Goswami.
Rupa Goswami at this time received information that Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was preparing to proceed toward Vrindaban from Jagannath Puri. He sent two messengers to receive actual information of the Lord's itinerary, and he made his own plans to go to Mathura to meet the Lord there. It appears that Rupa Goswami got permission to join Lord Chaitanya, but Sanatan Goswami did not. Therefore, Sanatan Goswami entrusted his respon-