cabbiÅ›a vatsara chilÄ gá¹›hastha-ÄÅ›rame
pañca-vimśati varṣe kaila yati-dharme
cabbiÅ›a - twenty-four; vatsara - years; chilÄ - He remained; gá¹›hastha - householder life; ÄÅ›rame - the order of; pañca - five; vimÅ›ati - twenty; vará¹£e - in the year; kaila - did; yati-dharme - accepted the sannyÄsa order.
ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu remained in householder life for twenty-four years, and on the verge of His twenty-fifth year He accepted the sannyÄsa order.
There are four orders of spiritual life, namely, brahmacarya, gá¹›hastha, vÄnaprastha and sannyÄsa, and in each of these ÄÅ›ramas there are four divisions. The divisions of the brahmacarya-ÄÅ›rama are sÄvitrya, prÄjÄpatya, brÄhma and bá¹›hat, and the divisions of the gá¹›hasthÄÅ›rama are vÄrtÄ (professionals), sañcaya (accumulators), Å›ÄlÄ«na (those who do not ask anything from anyone) and Å›iloñchana (those who collect grains from the paddy fields). Similarly, the divisions of the vÄnaprastha-ÄÅ›rama are vaikhÄnasa, vÄlakhilya, auá¸umbara and pheṇapa, and the divisions of sannyÄsa are kuá¹Ä«caka, bahÅ«daka, haá¹sa and niá¹£kriya. There are two kinds of sannyÄsÄ«s, who are called dhÄ«ras and narottamas, as stated in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam (1.13.26-27). At the end of the month of January in the year 1432 Å›akÄbda (A.D. 1510), ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu accepted the sannyÄsa order from KeÅ›ava BhÄratÄ«, who belonged to the Åšaá¹…kara-sampradÄya.
