Gauranga Shata Nama 15 – The Lord of devotion manifests the summit of renunciation

Thank you so here the names of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu which are going on chronologically come to describing the events which marked the end of his stay in Mayapur or you could say it marks the end of the Madhya Leela of Chaitanya Bhagwat or the end of the Adi Leela of Chaitanya Charita Amrit basically Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's stay in Mayapur ends and how does it end? with his taking sanyas Shri Krishna Chaitanya Chandra that lord Chaitanya who was known as Nimai Pandit, who was known by various names he took sanyas and after taking sanyas he was given the name Shri Krishna Chaitanya generally the practice of sanyas often when it is done in the impersonal schools it involves of lying down on a funeral pyre and then getting up again, the idea is a person is socially dead it's almost like death, when is the body kept on a funeral pyre it is when a person dies so like that, the sanyasi voluntarily puts his body on a funeral pyre the pyre is of course not burnt but the positioning of oneself on the funeral pyre indicates that one is voluntarily accepting social death, that means one turns away from the relationships of this world in Vaishnavism the focus of sanyas is as a means for enhancing one's bhakti especially one's sharing of bhakti with the world so therefore, this particular ritual is not performed but the point remains that just as when a person dies and then goes to another body so at that time, the person gets a new name so that's how at the time of sanyas, the sanyasi is given a new name Shri Krishna Chaitanya so this was the name that Nimai Pandit got when he took sanyas and then whom did he take sanyas from who gave him this name? Keshav Bharati so interestingly, his relationship with his sanyas guru is described in the next name Bharati Tarana Bharati refers to Keshav Bharati and Tarana so normally, it is the guru who delivers the disciple but Chaitanya Mahaprabhu is the supreme lord he is the deliverer of everyone so it is described here that it was he who delivered Keshav Bharati the Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's biographical scriptures describe how when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu took sanyas diksha at that time, there is a sanyas mantra which the guru is meant to recite in the ears of the disciple so just before Keshav Bharati could recite those mantras Chaitanya Mahaprabhu he bent close to Keshav Kashmiri and whispered a mantra in his ear he said do you think this mantra is good and Keshav Kashmiri heard that mantra and said yes this is very good I will give you this mantra and then he chanted that mantra in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's ears but the fact so in that sense because he chanted the mantra in Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's ears he initiated Chaitanya Mahaprabhu but before that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had chanted the mantra in his ear so in that sense it was Chaitanya Mahaprabhu who elevated and delivered was actually a sanyasi in the Advaitic sampradaya he certainly had some Vaishnava leanings sometimes he said that he was a Vaishnava but somehow he was in Advaitic tradition initiated in Advaitic tradition and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was quintessentially a Vaishnava he was the lord of Vishnu himself but in his mood and orientation he was definitely not an impersonalist and he elevated Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to initiation from a Mayavadi just so that he could have the respect that is that was prevalent over there at that time among Mayavadis or for Mayavadis society respected impersonalists quite a bit and of course impersonalists are various types we are talking about Mayavadis here so the Advaitavad was widely respected and when Advaitavad was widely respected at that time Chaitanya Mahaprabhu his whole purpose of taking sanyas was that he was giving the message of chanting of the holy name when people were taking it sentimentally so Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wanted that he wanted the glorification of Krishna's holy names and he wanted the people take the holy names seriously therefore just for the sake of enduring people and for ensuring that they took the holy name with adequate respect and seriousness by which they could be delivered by chanting the holy names he accepted sanyas in the Advaitic samprabha from Keshav Bharti Maharaj but then the important point here is that because Keshav Bharti initiated Chaitanya Mahaprabhu in that sense he developed a connection with him so whatever contaminations of Advaitism had come upon him by the contact with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu they disappeared and what remained was just a pure and this is the purity and intensity of his love was seen when Chaitanya Mahaprabhu started after taking sanyas after keertan started running towards Vrindavan and Keshav Bharti said I will also come with you to Vrindavan what is the use of life anywhere else so some drops of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mad love for Krishna and Krishna's dham fell and rubbed off on Keshav Bharti and he became transformed Bharati Tarana Parivraja Shiromani Parivraja, Parivraja's enunciates Shiromani he became the crest jewel among the enunciates Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was not just extremely strict in following the rules of sanyas but while following the rules of sanyas he was transcendentally extremely attractive Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Chaitanya Mahaprabhu described that he is a rupa guna prema his beautiful golden form it was a huge form because he was quite tall and then he was so gentle so loving and prema he had tears of love constantly so he used to radiate love and people would get attracted to him and surrender to him and he elevated all of them so as a Parivraja Parivraja Shiromani so his potential attracting people towards him and through him towards Krishna was extraordinary that's conveyed in Parivraja Shiromani crest jewel of the enunciates Utkala Pavana Utkala refers to the Odisha area Chaitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to go to Vrindavan because Hachimatha said that Vrindavan will be too far away I will not be able to get any news of you please stay close by, please stay in Puri because the same Krishna who is there in Vrindavan is also there in Jagannath in Puri so Chaitanya Mahaprabhu agreed and he decided to go to and then while he was going to Puri whoever he would meet he would infuse them with love of Krishna and he he by thus transforming people's hearts he would ensure that they were all ready to they were completely purified and ready to enter into the kingdom of God Thank you.