Adi-lila, Chapter 3 183

Sesa-lilaya dhare nama ‘sri-krsna-caitanya’
Sri-krsna jdndye saba visva kaila dhanya

SYNONYMS

Sesa-lilava—in His final pastimes; dhare—He held; mdma—the name; Sri-krsna-
caitanya—Sri Krsna Caitanya; $r7-krsna— about Lord Krsna; jandye— He taught;
saba—all;visva—the world; kai/a—made; dhanya—fortunate.

TRANSLATION

In His later pastimes He is known as Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya. He blesses the
whole world by teaching about the name and fame of Lord Sri Krsna.

PURPORT

Lord Caitanya remained a householder only until His twenty-fourth year had
passed. Then He entered the renounced order and remained manifest in this material
world until His forty-eighth year. Therefore Sesa-/ila, or the final portion of His
activities, lasted twenty-four years.

Some so-called Vaisnavas say that the renounced order of life is not accepted in
the Vaisnava sampraddya, or disciplic succession, from Lord Caitanya. This is not a
very intelligent proposition. Sti Caitanya Mahaprabhu took the sannydsa order
from Sripada Kegava Bharati, who belonged to the Sankara sect, which approves of
only ten names for sannydsis. Long before the advent of Sripada Sanikaracarya,
however, the sannydsa order existed in the Vaisnava line of Visnusvami. In the
Visnusvami Vaisnava sampradaya, there are ten different kinds of sannydsa names
and 108 different names for sannydsis who accept the tri-danda, the triple staff of
sannydsa. This is approved by the Vedic rules. Therefore Vaisnava sannyasa was
existent even before the appearance of Sarikaracarya, although those who know
nothing about Vaisnava sannyasa unnecessarily declare that there is no sannydsa in
the Vaisnava sampradaya.

During the time of Lord Caitanya, the influence of Sankaracarya in society was
very strong. People thought that one could accept sannyasa only in the disciplic
succession of Sankaracarya. Lord Caitanya could have performed His missionary
activities as a householder, but He found householder life an obstruction to His
mission. Therefore He decided to accept the renounced order, sannydsa. Since His
acceptance of sannyasa was also designed to attract public attention, Lord Caitanya,
not wishing to disturb the social convention, took the renounced order of life from
a sannyasi in the disciplic succession of Sah karacarya, although sannydsa was also
sanctioned in the Vaisnava sampraddya.

In the Sankara-sampradaya there are ten different names awarded to sannyasis:
(1) Tirtha, (2) Agrama, (3) Vana, (4) Aranya, (5) Giri, (6) Parvata, (7) Sagara, (8)
Sarasvati, (9) Bharati and (10) Puri. Before one enters sannydsa, he has one of the
various names for a brahmacari, the assistant to a sannydsi. Sannyadsis with the titles
Tirtha and Asrama generally stay at Dvaraka, and their brahmacdri name is Svaripa.
Those known by the names Vana and Aranya stay at Purusottama, or Jagannatha
Puri, and their brahmacari name is Prakasa. Those with the names Giri, Parvata and
