This custom is still adhered to by Vaish.navas.
The Charit??mrita veils the priority of Adwaita adroitly by stating that
it was he who by his austerities hastened the coming of K.rish.na in
the avatar of Chaitanya.
I praise that revered teacher Adwaita of wonderful actions,
By whose favour even the ignorant may perceive the (divinity)
personified.
--Ch. I. vi.
Thus in Sanskrit verses at the head of that chapter which sings the
virtues of Adwaita: by in the Bengali portion of the same chapter it is
asserted that Adwaita was himself an incarnation of a part of the
divinity, e.g.--
The teacher Adwaita is a special portion of god.
And the author goes on to say that Adwaita was first the teacher then
the pupil of Chaitanya. The probability is that Adwaita, like the
majority of his countrymen, was more addicted to meditation than to
action. The idea which in his mind gave rise to nothing more than
indefinite longings when transfused into the earnest fiery nature of
Chaitanya, expanded into a faith which moved and led captive the souls
of thousands.
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