T. V. Kapali Sastry provides an overview of Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Guru Nanak and Guru Govind Singh
These boyish excesses did not cease even when he grew to be a fine scholar. He kept a dog constantly with him and named him after his professor "Gangadas,’ and called him aloud much to the embarrassment of his namesake, the Pandit. Nevertheless, his nature, though wild in excessive energy, was transparent and pure and had some restraint. True, he had teased little girls when he was five years, but when he came of age avoided all contact with women, would not even glance at them. As a student, he was absorbed in his studies. "He always reads," says his biographer, "even when going to bathe or sleep or to dine, one would see a book in his hands. He writes commentaries on Grammar himself. What he reads he so thoroughly masters that no one can hold his own when arguing with him. He treats his opponent and establishes a logical proposition with great cleverness, and then, to the wonder of his fellow students, upsets it himself and establishes the quite opposite theory formerly held by his rival.” His special province was Grammar and Rhetoric as well as Logic for which Nadea had become famous. Proud of his learning, he was foremost in debate. Here is an instance showing him as he was when he was still in his teens. Murari Gupta, who afterwards became one of his biographers, was an old and venerable scholar and physician and his renown had reached its zenith when Nimai commenced his study of Sanskrit Grammar. He would often join issue with the great scholar and on one occasion at the close of a debate told him: "It would be far better if you would mind your herbs and plants to cure cough and indigestion and not trouble yourself with Sanskrit Grammar which is too difficult a subject to suit you." On another occasion, when the great apostle and saint Ishwara Puri was reading out a verse from his work to an eager listener, Nimai said to the saint point-blank, “Sir, the verb you use is not Atmanepadi” and pointed out many grammatical flaws. When he completed his education, the title of Vidya Sagara, ocean of learning, was conferred on him.
These boyish excesses did not cease even when he grew to be a fine scholar. He kept a dog constantly with him and named him after his professor "Gangadas,’ and called him aloud much to the embarrassment of his namesake, the Pandit. Nevertheless, his nature, though wild in excessive energy, was transparent and pure and had some restraint. True, he had teased little girls when he was five years, but when he came of age avoided all contact with women, would not even glance at them. As a student, he was absorbed in his studies. "He always reads," says his biographer, "even when going to bathe or sleep or to dine, one would see a book in his hands. He writes commentaries on Grammar himself. What he reads he so thoroughly masters that no one can hold his own when arguing with him. He treats his opponent and establishes a logical proposition with great cleverness, and then, to the wonder of his fellow students, upsets it himself and establishes the quite opposite theory formerly held by his rival.” His special province was Grammar and Rhetoric as well as Logic for which Nadea had become famous. Proud of his learning, he was foremost in debate. Here is an instance showing him as he was when he was still in his teens. Murari Gupta, who afterwards became one of his biographers, was an old and venerable scholar and physician and his renown had reached its zenith when Nimai commenced his study of Sanskrit Grammar. He would often join issue with the great scholar and on one occasion at the close of a debate told him: "It would be far better if you would mind your herbs and plants to cure cough and indigestion and not trouble yourself with Sanskrit Grammar which is too difficult a subject to suit you."
On another occasion, when the great apostle and saint Ishwara Puri was reading out a verse from his work to an eager listener, Nimai said to the saint point-blank, “Sir, the verb you use is not Atmanepadi” and pointed out many grammatical flaws.
When he completed his education, the title of Vidya Sagara, ocean of learning, was conferred on him.
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