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A brāhmaṇa is not expected to work. That is dhana pratigraha. Pratigraha means accept offerings from others. Just like you …

So He was learned brāhmaṇa, and people used to present Him profusely, so He had no economics problem. Not that …

He was teacher also. Paṭhana, pāṭhana, yajana, yājana. Brāhmaṇa's business is to teach and to become a very learned scholar …

Caṇākya Paṇḍita says,

mātā yasya gṛhe nāsti bhāryā cāpriya-vādinī araṇyaṁ tena gantavyaṁ yathāraṇyaṁ tathā gṛham

[Cāṇakya-śloka 57]

[If one does not have an affectionate mother at home or one's wife does not speak sweetly and lovingly one …

Caṇākya Paṇḍita is giving too much stress on mother and wife in family life. So he says if one's mother …

Caṇākya Paṇḍita does not advise it, the advise that he should divorce such wife, but he says, aranyaṁ tena gantavyam: …

So Caitanya Mahāprabhu, this is one of the brilliant examples of opulence, that He renounced His so happy family life, …

That is the greatest opulence. He renounced everything for Kṛṣṇa. That is the greatest opulence of Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Similarly, if …

[pause] So any other particular...?

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Devotee: His Divine Grace Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī accepted both Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and Śrīla Gaurakiśora as his spiritual master.

Prabhupāda: Gaurakiśora dāsa... Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was his father, and Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī was treating Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura... Although he was householder …

So this Siddhānta Sarasvatī, Sarasvatī title also accepted by sannyāsa. Sarasvatī, Bhāratī, Puri, Araṇya, Bon, Parvat—there are ten names of …

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Devotee (2): Does our line of succession go directly to Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī or to Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura?

Prabhupāda: No. Because he was treating Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura as his śikṣa guru, preceptor guru, so it is in the line.

Devotee (2): But is Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura directly in succession from Lord Caitanya?