Or are they (the people at Srinivasa's house) older brahmanas?

Expressions researched:
"At Srinivasa's house" |"Or are they older brāhmins" |"the people"

1967 Conversations and Morning Walks

Older, only these... Haridāsa, Śrīnivāsa, and Advaita. They were taking part. Otherwise, all, they were young friends, yes. Young boys. No girls. That is not the system in India. (laughs)

Discourse on Lord Caitanya Play Between Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva -- April 5-6, 1967, San Francisco:

Prabhupāda: Second act. Then Lord Caitanya's saṅkīrtana organization in the house of Śrīnivāsa. Śrīnivāsācārya. The saṅkīrtana movement was . . . they were all chanting together Hare Kṛṣṇa, and Caitanya Mahāprabhu asked the devotees that, "Hello, My dear friends. What do you want to eat?" So some of them said . . .

That was out of season, and still some of them asked that, "We shall be very glad if You give us some mangoes." (laughs) So Lord Caitanya said that "All right. You just bring one seed of mango."

So in Bengal there is . . . seed of mango is available always, because the people in the village, they eat mango and throw it in the ground, they say they come out as creep, creeper. So it is not very difficult. So he brought some creeper like that, and he sowed it, and at once it became a tree, and there was sufficient quantity of mango fruits. So all the devotees were distributed. And that mango tree remained there, and they were taking mango every day. And in that scene, just try to . . .

The next scene is brāhmins' dissatisfaction. Now some of the brāhmins . . .

Hayagrīva: How old is Caitanya now?

Prabhupāda: He was about . . .

Hayagrīva: Sixteen?

Prabhupāda: Fifteen, sixteen, like that. Yes. Fifteen, sixteen. Yes, you ask me questions, any, about that.

Hayagrīva: That's His saṅkīrtana organization, that first scene.

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Hayagrīva: And from this first comes . . .

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the beginning of . . .

Hayagrīva: A scene of Nivās . . .

Prabhupāda: At Śrīnivāsa's house.

Hayagrīva: Are the people mainly young people like Himself?

Prabhupāda: Yes, they were all young.

Hayagrīva: Or are they older brāhmins?

Prabhupāda: Older, only these . . .

Hayagrīva: Only the three, yes.

Prabhupāda: Haridāsa, Śrīnivāsa and Advaita. They were taking part. Otherwise, all, they were young friends, yes. Young boys. No girls. That is not the system in India. (laughs) Yes.

Now when the second scene, mainly their movement was going on and it was becoming popular. Now Caitanya Mahāprabhu preached that "Simply by the saṅkīrtana movement everything will be fulfilled. You need not do anything." So the priest class, brāhmins, they became very much dissatisfied that, "He is inviting Muhammadans and all others . . ."

Because according to Hindu society, except the brāhmins . . . especially in those days, only the brāhmins were considered the highest in the society, and even the kṣatriyas, vaiśyas, they all calculated to . . . in the group of śūdras. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu was allowing everyone—the Muhammadans, the śūdras, the low class, the high class, the brāhmins . . . He was amalgamating everyone.

So these brāhmins, they took objection, "He is making a disastrous movement. The prestige of the brāhmins will go." So they became very much dissatisfied, and they concluded that, "We shall go to the magistrate and file our complaint that He is doing against Hindu religion, and He's crying always 'Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa loudly. The Lord is sleeping. He will be disturbed and there will be disaster, Lord being angry." In this way they filed complaint.