CC Madhya 10.154
Bengali
ব্রহ্মানন্দ পরিয়াছে মৃগচর্মাম্বর ।
তাহা দেখি’ প্রভু দুঃখ পাইলা অন্তর ॥ ১৫৪ ॥
তাহা দেখি’ প্রভু দুঃখ পাইলা অন্তর ॥ ১৫৪ ॥
Verse text
brahmānanda pariyāche mṛga-carmāmbara
tāhā dekhi’ prabhu duḥkha pāilā antara
tāhā dekhi’ prabhu duḥkha pāilā antara
Synonyms
Translation
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His devotees approached him, they saw that he was covered with a deerskin. Seeing this, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu became very unhappy.
Purport
Brahmānanda Bhāratī belonged to the Śaṅkara-sampradāya. (The title Bhāratī indicates a member of one of that sampradāya’s ten classes of sannyāsīs.) It is customary for a person who has renounced the world to cover his body with a deerskin or the bark of a tree. This is enjoined by the Manu-saṁhitā. But if a sannyāsī who has renounced the world simply wears a deerskin and does not spiritually advance, he is bewildered by false prestige. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not like to see Brahmānanda Bhāratī wearing a deerskin.