Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Antya 8.8

paramānanda-purī kaila caraṇa vandana

purī-gosāñi kaila tāńre dṛḍha ālińgana

SYNONYMS

paramānanda-purī — Paramānanda Purī; kaila — did; caraṇa — unto the feet; vandana — offering obeisances; purī-gosāñi — Rāmacandra Purī; kaila — did; tāńre — unto him; dṛḍha — strong; ālińgana — embracing.

TRANSLATION

Paramānanda Purī offered respects at the feet of Rāmacandra Purī, and Rāmacandra Purī strongly embraced him.

PURPORT

Because Rāmacandra Purī was a disciple of Mādhavendra Purī, both Paramānanda Purī and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu offered him respectful obeisances. Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura comments that although Rāmacandra Purī was naturally very envious and although he was against the principles of Vaiṣṇavism — or, in other words, against the principles of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His devotees — common people nevertheless addressed him as Gosvāmī or Gosāñi because he was superficially in the renounced order and dressed like a sannyāsī. In the modern age the title gosvāmī is used by a caste of gṛhasthas, but formerly it was not. Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī, for example, were called gosvāmī because they were in the renounced order. Similarly, because Paramānanda Purī was a sannyāsī, he was called Purī Gosvāmī. By careful scrutiny, therefore, one will find that gosvāmī is not the title for a certain caste; rather, it is properly the title for a person in the renounced order.

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