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20 Çré Caitanya Mahäprabhu

There is no other way, there is no other way, there
is no other way.”

Nimäi advised Tapana Miçra to constantly
chant the mahä-mantra—Hare Kåñëa, Hare
Kåñëa, Kåñëa Kåñëa, Hare Hare/ Hare Räma, Hare
Räma, Räma Räma, Hare Hare—and assured him
that thereby he could achieve all success. Tapana
Miçra expressed a desire to renounce the world
and follow Nimäi, but Nimäi directed him to settle
in Varanasi, where they would meet in the future.

While Nimäi was in East Bengal, Lakñmépriyä’s
feelings of intense separation from Him assumed
the form of a snake whose bite took her life.
When Nimäi returned to Navadvépa with much
accumulated wealth, He consoled His mother, and
on her request remarried. Nimäi’s wedding festival
was one of the greatest ever seen in Bengal. His
new wife’s name was Viñëupriyä.
Some time later an exceptional scholar from
Kashmir, Keçava Käçméré, visited Navadvépa. He
was a digvijaya-paëòita (one who has overcome all
others in debate). Keçava Käçméré would go from
place to place challenging and defeating whoever
dared to stand before him. Hearing of his arrival,
all the savants of Navadvépa fled, thus leaving
young Nimäi as the only remaining paëòita in
town.