16 Sit Caitanya-caritamrta [Adi-lila, Ch. 12
TRANSLATION
When he heard this sound and felt the touch of the Lord, Gopala immediately
got up, and all the Vaisnavas chanted the Hare Krsna maha-mantra in jubilation.
TEXT 27
Bipicda aia 7%e — Slava |
CA YB — THAT, OTT ATH 9H
dcaryera ara putra—Sri-balardma
Gra putra— ‘svaripa’-sakhd, ‘jagadisa’ nama
SYNONYMS

acaryera—of Srila Advaita Acarya; dra—another; putra—son; $ri-balarama—of the
name Sri Balarama; dra putra—another son; svaripa—of the name Svarupa; sakha—
branch; jagadisa ndma—of the name Jagadisa.

TRANSLATION
The other sons of Advaita Acarya were Sri Balarama, Svartpa and Jagadisa.
PURPORT

The Sanskrit book Advaita-carita states that Balarama, Svarupa and Jagadisa were
the fourth, fifth and sixth sons of Advaita Acarya. Therefore Sri Advaita Acarya
had six sons. Balarama, Svaripa and Jagadisa, being srndrtas or Mayavadis, were re-
jected by Vaisnava society. Sometimes Mayavadis pose themselves as Vaisnavas, or
worshipers of Lord Visnu, but actually they do not believe in Lord Visnu as the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, for they consider demigods like Lord Siva, Durga,
the sun-god and Ganesa equal to Him. They are generally known as paficopdsaka-
smartas, and one should not count them among the Vaisnavas.

Balarama had three wives and nine sons. The youngest son of his first wife was
known as Madhusiidana Gosvami. He took the title Bhattacarya and accepted the
path of the smarta or Mayavada philosophy. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
notes that the son of Gosvami Bhattacarya, Sri Radharamana Gosvami Bhattacarya,
refused the title gosvam/ because it is generally meant for sannydsis, those who have
taken the renounced order of life. One who is still in family life should not misuse
the title gosvamr. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatt Thakura did not recognize the
caste gosvamis because they were not in the line of the six Gosvamis in the renounced
order who were direct disciples of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu—namely, Srila Rupa
Gosvami, Srila Sanatana Gosvami, Srila Bhatta Raghunatha Gosvami, Sri Gopala
Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami and Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. Srila
Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura said that the grhasthdsrama, or the status of
family life, is a sort of concession for sense gratification. Therefore a grhastha should
not falsely adopt the title gosvam7. The ISKCON movement has never conferred the
