Lord Caitanya informed Sanātana Gosvāmī that, "Your two other brothers, I met them at Prayāga, and they have started for Vṛndāvana." Lord Caitanya deputed the Sanātana Gosvāmī and Rūpa Gosvāmī to excavate the glories of Vṛndāvana. Before Lord Caitanya, the Vṛndāvana city was not there. The present Vṛndāvana city was not there. It was all forgotten practically.
But when Lord Caitanya visited this land He first of all pointed out Radha-kunda and then He made a survey, and His assistants, these Gosvāmīs, they went there, and this present Vṛndāvana was constructed by the disciples of Lord Caitanya. So He said that, "I have instructed your two brothers, Rūpa Gosvāmī, to go to Vṛndāvana, and I have met them.". Tapana-miśrere āra candraśekharere, prabhu-ājñāya sanātana mililā doṅhāre (CC Madhya 20.67).
And He was guest in the house of Tapana Miśra. So He introduced Tapana Miśra with Sanātana Gosvāmī. Tapana-miśra tabe tāṅre kailā nimantraṇa, prabhu kahe—'kṣaura karāha, yāha, sanātana' (CC Madhya 20.68).
The Tapana Miśra invited him that "Please accept your bhikṣā at my place." It is the system when a sannyāsī, or renounced order of life, is in the village or in the vicinity of a . . . so it is the Hindu system that somebody will invite. So Tapana Miśra invited him to take . . . accept prasādam at his place, and Lord Caitanya said that "First of all you get him to a barber and have him cleansed of, of his beard and hairs which has grown for so many days.
Let him become a gentleman." The Lord said that "Let him become a gentleman." Candraśekharere prabhu kahe bolāñā, 'ei veṣa dūra kara, yāha iṅhāre lañā' (CC Madhya 20.69): "Just get him to a barber and clean, clean-shaving." According to the Caitanya Mahāprabhu's sampradāya, they keep themself clean-shaving. And only single instance is there, Advaita Prabhu. He had His beard. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu never asked Him to cleanse. Because one reason is that Advaita Prabhu was just contemporary to His father, so He did not like to dictate. But otherwise, all His disciples, they were clean-shaved.
- bhadra karāñā tāṅre gaṅgā-snāna karāila
- śekhara āniyā tāṅre nūtana vastra dila
- (CC Madhya 20.70)
Then, after getting him washed in the Ganges and cleansed by a barber, Candraśekhara offered him a new pair of clothing and . . . sei vastra sanātana nā kaila aṅgīkāra (CC Madhya 20.71).
And Sanātana Gosvāmī did not accept that new clothing. Śuniyā prabhura mane ānanda apāra. And when Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard it that Sanātana Gosvāmī, after renouncement, he's not going to accept any new clothing . . .
So for a really renounced person is that whatever clothing is thrown in the street, he'll collect and he'll wear it. He would not purchase any new clothing. That is the order of strictly one who follows . . . cīrāṇi. Sanātana . . . Svarūpa . . . Śukadeva Gosvāmī, in the Bhāgavata, he said that "Whether old clothings and torn clothings cannot be had on the street? Whether trees are not giving fruits? Whether the rivers are dried up? Whether the caves in the mountain, they are closed? Then why the renounced order of persons go to the viṣayi?" Viṣayi means those, those who are materialistic.
Sometimes the renounced order of life, sannyāsī, they go to the householders . . . of course, that is their duty. But still . . . so Śukadeva Gosvāmī, a great personality in the renounced order of life, he would live naked. He would not go even to the human society. So those who are following strictly, they don't make themselves dependent on the householders or on the worldly people. So Sanātana Gosvāmī did not accept that new clothing, and when it was heard by Lord Caitanya, He was very glad.
- madhyāhna kariyā prabhu gelā bhikṣā karibāre
- sanātane lañā gelā tapana-miśrera ghare
- (CC Madhya 20.72)
Then Caitanya Mahāprabhu . . . there were two gentlemen, Candraśekhara Ācārya and Tapana Miśra. So Candraśekhara Ācārya took care of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and Tapana Miśra took Sanātana Gosvāmī at his place to give him prasādam.