10 Sr1-Caitanya-caritamrta [ Adi-lila, Ch. 12
paficama varsera balaka kahe siddhantera sara
Suniyd paild Gcdrya santosa apara
SYNONYMS

paficama—five; varsera—years; balaka—small boy; kahe—says; siddhdntera—con-
clusive; sdra—essence; Suniya—hearing; paild—got; Gcarya— Advaita Acarya; santosa—
satisfaction; apdra—very much.

TRANSLATION

When Advaita Acarya heard this statement from His five-year-old son

Acyutananda, He felt great satisfaction because of his conclusive judgement.
PURPORT

Commenting on verses 13 through 17, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura gives
an extensive description of the descendants of Advaita Acarya. The Cajitanya-
bhagavata, Antya-khanda, Chapter Nine, states that Acyutananda was the eldest son
of Advaita Acarya. The Sanskrit book Advaita-carita states, ‘‘Advaita Acarya Prabhu
had three sons named Acyuta, Krsna Misra and Gopala dasa, all born of the womb
of His wife Sitadevi, who were devotees of Lord Caitanya. Advaita Acarya also had
three more sons, whose names were Balarama, SvarUpa and Jagadisa. Thus there
were six sons of Advaita Acarya.”” Among the six sons, three were strict followers of
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and of these three, Acyutananda was the eldest.

Advaita Prabhu married in the beginning of the Fifteenth Century sakdbda. When
Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to visit the village of Ramakeli while going from
Jagannatha Puri to Vrndavana during the $akdbda years 1433 and 1434, Acyutananda
was only five years old. The Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-khanda, Fourth Chapter,
describes Acyutananda at that time as pafica-varsa vayasa madhura digambara, “only
five years old and standing naked.” Therefore it is to be concluded that Acyutananda
was born sometime in the year 1428. Before the birth of Acyutananda, Advaita
Prabhu’s wife, Sitadevi, came to see Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu at His birth. Thus
it is not impossible that she had the other three sons by Advaita within the twenty-
one years between 1407 and 1428 sakdbda. \n an unauthorized book of the name
Sitddvaita-carita published in Bengali in the unauthorized newspaper Nitydnanda-
dayini in 1792 sakdbda, it is mentioned that Acyutananda was a class friend of Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu. According to Caitanya-bhdgavata, this statement is not at all
valid. When Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted the renounced order of sannydsa, He
came to the house of Advaita Prabhu at Santipura in the year 1431 Sakdbda. At that
time, as stated in Caitanya-bhagavata, Antya-khanda, Chapter One, Acyutananda
was only three years old. The Caitanya-bhdgavata further states that the naked child,
the son of Advaita Prabhu, immediately came and fell down at the lotus feet of Lord
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. The Lord immediately took him on His lap, although he
was not very clean, having dust all over his body. Lord Caitanya said, “My dear
Acyuta, Advaita Acarya is My father, and thus we are brothers.”

Before Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu exhibited His spiritual forms during His residence
at Navadvipa, He asked Sri Rama Pandita, Srinivasa Acarya’s brother, to go to
