184 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

Sagara generally stay at Badarikasrama, and their brahmacari name is Ananda. Those
with the titles Sarasvati, Bharati and Puri usually live at Srnigeri in South India, and
their brahmacari name is Caitanya.

Sripada Sankaracarya established four monasteries in India, in the four directions
north, south, east and west, and he entrusted them to four sannydsis who were his
disciples. Now there are hundreds of branch monasteries under these four principal
monasteries, and although there is an official symmetry among them, there are many
differences in their dealings. The four different sects of these monasteries are known
as Anandavara, Bhogavara, Kitavara and BhGmivara, and in course of time they have
developed different ideas and different slogans.

According to the regulation of the disciplic succession, one who wishes to enter
the renounced order in Sankara’s sect must first be trained as a brahmacari under a
bona fide sannydsi. The brahmacari’s name is ascertained according to the group to
which the sannydsi belongs. Lord Caitanya accepted sannydsa from Kesava Bharati.
When He first approached KeSava Bharatt, He was accepted as a brahmacar/, with the
name Sri Krsna Caitanya Brahmacari. After He took sannydsa, He preferred to keep
the name Krsna Caitanya.

The great authorities in the disciplic succession had not offered to explain why
Lord Caitanya refused to take the name Bharati after He took sannydsa from a
Bharati, until Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja volunteered the
explanation that because a sannyas? in the Sankara-sampradaya thinks that he has
become the Supreme, Lord Caitanya, wanting to avoid such a misconception, kept
the name Sri Krsna Caitanya, placing Himself as an eternal servitor. A brahmacari is
supposed to serve the spiritual master; therefore He did not negate that relationship
of servitude to His spiritual master. Accepting such a position is favorable for the
relationship between the disciple and the spiritual master.

The authentic biographies also mention that Lord Caitanya accepted the danga
(rod) and begging pot, symbolic of the sannydsa order, at the time He took
sannyasa.

TEXT 35

Sta garawia oifey’ sof eters |
cea atazace Shaace falH noe |
tdfra yugavatara sani’ garga mahdsaya
kesnera nama-karane kariyache nirnaya
SYNONYMS

tafra—of Him; yuga-avatdra—incarnation for the age; sdni’— knowing; garga—
Gargamuni; mahdsaya—the great personality; krsmera—of Lord Krsna; ndma-karane—
in the name-giving ceremony; kariydche—made; nirnaya—ascertainment.

TRANSLATION

Knowing Him [Lord Caitanya] to be the incarnation for the Kali-yuga,
Gargamuni, during the naming ceremony of Krsna, predicted His appearance.
