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<div id="LectureonBG2812LosAngelesNovember271968_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="42" link="Lecture on BG 2.8-12 -- Los Angeles, November 27, 1968" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.8-12 -- Los Angeles, November 27, 1968">
<div class="heading">So the Māyāvādī sannyāsī may differ in his interpretation, but he's following the Vedic rules. So this acceptance of sannyāsa is following the Vedic rules. So you can accept sannyāsa even from Māyāvādī. It doesn't matter. But you have to transcend the limits of Vedic rules. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That also Caitanya Mahāprabhu... Although He took sannyāsa, He did not assume the sannyāsa title. His sannyāsa guru was Keśava Bhāratī. Naturally, He would have accepted the Bhāratī title. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhāratī, or something like that. But He remained Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.8-12 -- Los Angeles, November 27, 1968|Lecture on BG 2.8-12 -- Los Angeles, November 27, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Devotee: It says in the ''Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam'' that Vyāsadeva was afraid that Sūta Gosvāmī when he was born would leave home because he was already a liberated soul.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Devotee: But he was attracted to Kṛṣṇa's pastimes. 

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Devotee:  So what . . .?

Prabhupāda: That is the sign of liberated soul. Because to become attracted by Kṛṣṇa, that is our normal condition. So he was liberated; therefore normally he became attracted with Kṛṣṇa's pastimes. That is his normal life. One who is not attracted by Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, he will be attracted by President Johnson's pastimes. (laughter) 

One has to be attracted. One has to be attracted by the dog's pastimes. Don't you see a person how he is serving the dog? The dog stands, passes urine, he also stands. You see? He's a human being, and he is waiting for the dog passing urine. How much he is attending the pastimes of the dog? 

So if you are not attracted by the pastimes of God, then you'll have to be attracted by the pastimes of the dog. There is no other alternative: either ''māyā'' or Kṛṣṇa. The atheist, agnostic, they deny Kṛṣṇa's pastimes; therefore they remain attracted by the pastimes of this material world.

Yes?

Madhudviṣa: Prabhupāda, I think this is . . . did Lord Caitanya take ''sannyāsa'' from a Māyāvādī ''sannyāsī''?

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is a formality. That is not very important. Because Māyāvādī ''Sannyāsīs'', they are also Vedic ''sannyāsī''. They are not outsiders. But their interpretation of ''Veda'' is different. But they follow the Vedic rules. So this acceptance of ''sannyāsa'' is following a principle of the Vedic rules. 

So the Māyāvādī ''sannyāsī ''may differ in his interpretation, but he's following the Vedic rules. So this acceptance of ''sannyāsa'' is following the Vedic rules. So you can accept ''sannyāsa'' even from Māyāvādī. It doesn't matter. 

But you have to transcend the limits of Vedic rules. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That also Caitanya Mahāprabhu . . . although He took ''sannyāsa'', He did not assume the ''sannyāsa'' title. His ''sannyāsa'' ''guru'' was Keśava Bhāratī. Naturally, He would have accepted the Bhāratī title, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Bhāratī, or something like that. But He remained Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. Caitanya is the name of the ''brahmacārī'' under the Bhāratī ''sannyāsī''. 

One ''brahmacārī''. The ''brahmacārīs'' are under . . . they are assistant or personal servitors of a ''sannyāsī''. That is the system. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu was . . . in the beginning, He was accepted . . . that is the Māyāvādī system. One is accepted first of all as ''brahmacārī''. So that, His name was Caitanya. 

But even after His acceptance of ''sannyāsa'', He did not assume the title Bhāratī. That means actually He did not take ''sannyāsa''. That was simply formality. Because Māyāvādī ''sannyāsī'' thinks that he is God; so how He can assume that title? He was preaching, He was going to preach that we are servant of God; therefore He did not assume that title. 

And besides that, when Caitanya Mahāprabhu was going to Lord . . . see Jagannātha Purī, His rod was taken away by Nityānanda and it was broken and thrown away. So He, apparently He became very angry that "You have broken My rod, ''sannyāsa'' rod. So I am not going with You." He separated. These statements are there in the ''Caitanya-caritāmṛta''. 

So in one sense, Caitanya Mahāprabhu did not require to accept any ''sannyāsa'' ''guru'', but He accepted the formality that if one takes ''sannyāsa'', one has to take ''sannyāsa'' from another ''sannyāsī''. That is the system. Just like if you want to get yourself married, you have to call for a priest. That does not mean that you have to agree with the priest's personal opinion. Do you follow? Yes. 

He may execute the rules and regulation of marriage ceremony, but that does not mean that one has to agree with the priest's opinion, personal opinion. This is the answer. But when you accept a spiritual master, that is not allowed. Unless you cent per cent agree with the spiritual master's opinion or philosophy, there is no need of accepting a spiritual master. There is no need. 

Yes?</p>