Madhya 16.130

TEXT 130

TEXT

গদাধর-পণ্ডিত যবে সঙ্গেতে চলিলা ।
'ক্ষেত্র-সন্ন্যাস না ছাড়িহ' - প্রভু নিষেধিলা ॥ ১৩০ ॥

gadadhara-pandita yabe saṅgete calila

'ksetra-sannyasa na chadiha'-prabhu nisedhila

SYNONYMS

gadadhara-pandita-Gadadhara Pandita; yabe-when; saṅgete-with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; calila-started to go; ksetra-sannyasa-the renounced order of life at a holy place of pilgrimage; na chadiha-do not give up; prabhu nisedhila-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu forbade.

TRANSLATION

When Gadadhara Pandita started to go with the Lord, he was forbidden to come and was asked not to give up the vow of ksetra-sannyasa.

PURPORT

When one takes ksetra-sannyasa, he leaves his household life and goes to a place of pilgrimage devoted to Lord Visnu. Such places include Purusottama (Jagannatha Puri), Navadvipa-dhama and Mathura-dhama. The ksetra-sannyasi lives in these places alone or with his family. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura considers ksetra-sannyasa to be the preferable vanaprastha situation in this age of Kali. Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya lived in this way, and he has been called a ksetra-sannyasi-that is, a sannyasi living in Jagannatha Puri.