On his return he found his first wife had died in
his absence, and he married again one Bishnupriy??, concerning whom
nothing further is said. Soon after he went to Gay?? to offer the usual
pi.n.da to the _manes_ of his ancestors.
It was on his return from Gay??, when he was about 23 years of age, that
he began seriously to start his new creed. "It was now," writes Babu
Jagadishnath, "that he openly condemned the Hindu ritualistic system of
ceremonies as being a body without a soul, disowned the institution of
caste as being abhorrent to a loving god all whose creatures were one
in his eyes, preached the efficacy of adoration and love and extolled
the excellence and sanctity of _the_ name, and the uttering and
singing of _the_ name of god as infinitely superior to barren
system without faith." Chaitanya, however, as the Babu points out, was
not the originator of this theory, but appears to have borrowed it from
his neighbour Adwaita Ach??rjya, whose custom it was, after performing
his daily ritual, to go to the banks of the Ganges and call aloud for
the coming of the god who should substitute love and faith for mere
rites and ceremonies.
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