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gadadhara-pandita yabe sangete calila
’ksetra-sannyasa na chadiha’--prabhu nisedhila
SYNONYMS
gadadhara-pandita—Gadadhara Pandita; yabe—when; sangete—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.
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.