So thinking, next morning he came to the Master and meekly praising Him took refuge at His feet, saying, "I am ignorant and have foolishly displayed my learning before you. You are God and out of your natural grace you have removed my pride by means of disgrace. The blindness of pride has been removed from my eyes through the collyrium of your grace now, and true knowledge has dawned on me. I have sinned. Forgive me; take refuge with thee; lay thy feet on my head." The Master checked him saying, "You are a scholar and a devotee at the same time. Where these two qualities are present, there pride cannot exist. You have written a commentary on the _Bhágabat_ in scorn of Shridhar Swami! I understand the _Bhágabat_ through the grace of Shridhar Swami; he is the world's _guru_, my _guru_. What you write contrary to Shridhar is labour lost; no one will accept it. Therefore, write your commentary on the _Bhágabat_ in the footsteps of Shridhar. Leave off your pride and adore the Lord Krishna. Give up your failings and join the _kirtan_ of Krishna, and you will soon attain to Krishna's feet." Then the Master agreed to dine at Vallabh Bhatta's house once again. The Bhatta used to meditate on God as the child Gopal. But the society of Gadadhar Pandit turned his mind, and he longed to adore the youthful Gopal. He begged the Pandit to teach him the _mantra_ and ceremonial of this kind of adoration, but Gadadhar declined to act without the Master's permission ... Another day Gadadhar Pandit invited the Master, who agreed and at the dinner permitted Vallabh Bhatta to be initiated by Gadadhar. HOW THE MASTER STINTED HIS FOOD Ramchandra Puri Goswámi came to Niláchal and there met the Master and Paramananda Puri Jagadananda Pandit invited Ramchandra Puri and fed him on the _prasád_ of Jagannáth. After the meal the Puri asked Jagadananda to feed on the food left over, and serving the _prasád_ repeatedly made him eat much. And thereafter, washing his hands and mouth, Ramchandra Puri began to cavil, "I had heard that Chaitanya's _bhaktas_ were great gluttons. Now I see it with my own eyes to be true. By gorging _sannyasis_ with so much food, their piety is destroyed. You are _bairagis_ and yet you are such huge eaters! Your _bairagya_ is not sincere." Ramchandra Puri was notorious as the universal fault finder, having been cursed for it by his own religious preceptor, Madhavendra Puri. He now dwelt at Niláchal, detached by nature, staying at one place for some time, taking his meal at some [other] place without having been bidden, and taking note of what others ate.