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falling down before the Lord; and he began to explain his past undesirable behavior. He asked the Lord to say something about devotional service, and the Lord began to instruct him on the verses of  Brihadnaradia Purana , in which is stated  Harer Nama Harer Nama . Lord Chaitanya explained the meaning of this verse very explicitly. After hearing the explanation of the  Harer Nama  from Lord Chaitanya, Bhattacharya became more and more ecstatic. Seeing his condition, his brother-in-law, Gopinath Acharya, addressed him and said, “My dear Bhattacharya, what I stated before—‘when he  is  favored by the Supreme Lord he will understand about the techniques of devotional service’—I am today seeing fulfilled.”
Bhattacharya offered him his due respect and replied, “My dear Gopinath Acharya, it is through your mercy that I have the mercy of the Supreme Lord.” The mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be achieved through the agency of the pure devotee. Lord Chaitanya’s mercy was bestowed upon Bhattacharya because of Gopinath Acharya’s endeavor.
Bhattacharya said to his brother-in-law: “You are a great devotee of the Lord, and I was simply blind with my academic education. So I have achieved the mercy of the Lord through your agency only.” The Lord was very much pleased to hear from Bhattacharya that a man can achieve the mercy of the Lord through the agency of the devotee, and he appreciated the verses and embraced Bhattacharya, confirming his statement.
The Lord then requested Bhattacharya to go and see Jagannath temple. Bhattacharya then started out for Jagannath temple, accompanied by Jagadananda and Damodar, two principal associates of Lord Chaitanya. He returned to his home after seeing Jagannath temple, and brought with him much nice Prasadam purchased from the temple. He sent all this Prasadam to Lord Chaitanya through his Brahmin servant, and also dispatched two verses written by him on palm tree leaves, and requested Jagadananda to do this favor and deliver them. All of them again came back to Lord Chaitanya and offered Him the Prasadam and the verses on the palm leaf. But before reaching the Lord, Mukunda Datta, who also undertook the delivery of the written palm leaf, had noted the verses down in his book. Lord Chaitanya read those verses and tore them into pieces, because He never liked to be praised by anyone. But his devotees had the verses written by Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya, from the notes of Mukunda Datta.
The purport of the verses written by Sarbabhouma Bhattacharya was praise of the Lord, the Supreme Original Personality of Godhead. He—Lord Chaitanya—has descended to preach detachment and transcendental knowle-