Were Lord Chaitanya’s teachings influenced by navya-nyaya tradition present in Navadvipa?

He grew up to become a very prominent scholar, even in his teenage years.

According to the hagiographies of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, at the age of 14, he defeated the Digvijay Pandit Keshav Kashmiri. None of the other scholars in Navadvip felt themselves capable of even debating him, let alone defeating him. Yet, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu succeeded in doing so.

This established him as a great scholar. At the same time, he had a profound mystical experience. When he visited Puri and met his guru, he returned transformed.

After that mystical experience—during which he had a darshan of Krishna and felt Krishna calling to him through the sound of his flute—his focus shifted completely to bhakti, devotion to Krishna.

At the time, he was teaching grammar to his students. But now, he began explaining all grammatical principles in terms of Krishna, presenting Krishna as the root of all words and grammatical forms.

Eventually, he realized: “I am not doing justice to what my students came here to learn. They came to study grammar, but I am only seeing Krishna everywhere.” So, he told them, “I can no longer teach grammar.”

Importantly, he did not reject or condemn grammar as mundane. He simply acknowledged that he could no longer teach it, as his mind and heart were absorbed in Krishna.

Such was his charisma that even his students responded, “We also don’t want to study grammar anymore. We want to learn about Krishna from you.”

From then on, his followers grew in number, and he came to be known primarily as a bhakti saint, who spread devotion to Krishna throughout India during his travels across South and North India.