History of Bengali Language and Literature c9.s3.136

c9.s3.136

Mīnaketan had gone away, but the disappointment caused in Kṛṣṇa Dās's mind by his brother's conduct, together with the impressions of a holy life left on him by the devout Vaiṣṇava, made him give up the idea of following any wordly pursuits. It is said that at this time Nityānanda appeared to him in a dream and advised him to go to the Vṛndā groves and pass his life there. The dream became a real force with him and he could not resist the command. He walked about 800 miles on foot begging alms for his subsistence and arrived at Vṛndāvana, where the purity of his life and his high character even as a boy interested the six distinguished Gosvāmīs, the appostles of the Vaiṣṇava faith of that time, who volunteered to take care of the young man's education.