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    "name":"Cc. Ādi 7.51",
    "h1":"Cc. Ādi 7.51",
    "label":"Text 51",
    "title":"Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 7.51",
    "description":"\"The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are all criticizing Your Holiness. We cannot tolerate hearing such criticism, for this blasphemy breaks our hearts.\""
}
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====== Cc. Ādi 7.51 ======

===== Text =====

> tomāre nindaye yata sannyāsīra gaṇa
> śunite nā pāri, phāṭe hṛdaya-śravaṇa

===== Synonyms =====

[[synonyms:t:tomāre]]---unto You; [[synonyms:n:nindaye]]---blasphemes; [[synonyms:y:yata]]---all; [[synonyms:s:sannyāsīra]] [[synonyms:g:gaṇa]]---the Māyāvādī //sannyāsīs//; [[synonyms:ś:śunite]]---to hear; [[synonyms:n:nā]]---cannot; [[synonyms:p:pāri]]---tolerate; [[synonyms:p:phāṭe]]---it breaks; [[synonyms:h:hṛdaya]]---our hearts; [[synonyms:ś:śravaṇa]]---while hearing such blasphemy.

===== Translation =====

**"The Māyāvādī sannyāsīs are all criticizing Your Holiness. We cannot tolerate hearing such criticism, for this blasphemy breaks our hearts."**

===== Purport =====

This is a manifestation of real love for Kṛṣṇa and Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. There are three categories of Vaiṣṇavas: //kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs, madhyama-adhikārīs// and //uttama-adhikārīs.// The //kaniṣṭha-adhikārī,// or the devotee in the lowest stage of Vaiṣṇava life, has firm faith but is not familiar with the conclusions of the //śāstras.// The devotee in the second stage, the //madhyama-adhikārī,// is completely aware of the śāstric conclusion and has firm faith in his //guru// and the Lord. He, therefore, avoiding nondevotees, preaches to the innocent. However, the //mahā-bhāgavata// or //uttama-adhikārī,// the devotee in the highest stage of devotional life, does not see anyone as being against the Vaiṣṇava principles, for he regards everyone as a Vaiṣṇava but himself. This is the essence of Caitanya Mahāprabhu's instruction that one be more tolerant than a tree and think oneself lower than the straw in the street (//tṛṇād api su-nīcena taror iva sahiṣṇunā//). However, even if a devotee is in the //uttama-bhāgavata// status he must come down to the second status of life, //madhyama-adhikārī,// to be a preacher, for a preacher should not tolerate blasphemy against another Vaiṣṇava. Although a //kaniṣṭha-adhikārī// also cannot tolerate such blasphemy, he is not competent to stop it by citing śāstric evidences. Therefore Tapana Miśra and Candraśekhara are understood to be //kaniṣṭha-adhikārīs// because they could not refute the arguments of the //sannyāsīs// in Benares. They appealed to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu to take action, for they felt that they could not tolerate such criticism although they also could not stop it.