Verse 1.1.157

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.157:

শেষ-খণ্ডে, নিত্যানন্দ চৈতন্যের দণ্ড ভাঙ্গিলেন, বলরাম পরম-প্রচণ্ড ॥ ১৫৭ ॥

शेष-खण्डे, नित्यानन्द चैतन्येर दण्ड भाङ्गिलेन, बलराम परम-प्रचण्ड ॥ १५७ ॥

śeṣa-khaṇḍe, nityānanda caitanyera daṇḍa bhāṅgilena, balarāma parama-pracaṇḍa || 157 ||

sesa-khande, nityananda caitanyera danda bhangilena, balarama parama-pracanda (157)

English translation:

(157) In the Antya-khaṇḍa the most powerful Śrī Nityānanda Rāma breaks Lord Caitanya’s sannyāsa daṇḍa.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

According to Vedic injunctions, those who accept the fourth social order of life are supposed to carry a daṇḍa. In accordance with those injunctions, only the tridaṇḍa was accepted in ancient times. Then, later on, the three daṇḍas were combined together and the system of ekadaṇḍa was introduced. This system of ekadaṇḍa is accepted as a prescribed activity by the followers of advaita-vāda.

The addition of the jīva-daṇḍa with the tridaṇḍa is accepted by followers of the philosophies of śuddhādvaita (purified oneness), viśiṣṭādvaita (specific monism), and dvaitādvaita (simultaneous oneness and difference). Whenever the philosophy of śuddhādvaita is converted into that of viddhādvaita, or monism, the acceptance of tridaṇḍa is replaced with the acceptance of ekadaṇḍa. Among the names of Vedic tridaṇḍi- sannyāsīs, the ten principle names have been reserved by the monists. Of those ten names, Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu purified the Bhāratī

branch of the Śaṅkara-sampradāya. Later on, Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu broke Śrīmān Mahāprabhu’s ekadaṇḍa, which is the symbol of subordination to the Śaṅkara-sampradāya, and threw it in the ocean. By so doing, Nityānanda showed the world that only acceptance of tridaṇḍa—not ekadaṇḍa—is favorable for devotional service.