Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta

Text 16: With the sober and grave Paramānanda Purī as the central root and the other eight roots in the eight directions, the tree of Caitanya Mahāprabhu stood firmly.

Text 17: From the trunk grew many branches, and above them innumerable others.

Text 18: Thus the branches of the Caitanya tree formed a cluster or society, with great branches covering all the universe.

Text 19: From each branch grew many hundreds of subbranches. No one can count how many branches thus grew.

Text 20: I shall try to name the foremost of the innumerable branches. Please hear the description of the Caitanya tree.

Text 21: At the top of the tree the trunk branched into two. One trunk was named Śrī Advaita Prabhu and the other Śrī Nityānanda Prabhu.

Text 22: From these two trunks grew many branches and subbranches that covered the entire world.

Text 23: These branches and subbranches and their subbranches became so numerous that no one can actually write about them.

Text 24: Thus the disciples and the granddisciples and their admirers spread throughout the entire world, and it is not possible to enumerate them all.

Text 25: As a big fig tree bears fruits all over its body, each part of the tree of devotional service bore fruit.

Text 26: Since Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu was the original trunk, the taste of the fruits that grew on the branches and subbranches surpassed the taste of nectar.

Text 27: The fruits ripened and became sweet and nectarean. The gardener, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, distributed them without asking any price.

Text 28: All the wealth in the three worlds cannot equal the value of one such nectarean fruit of devotional service.

Text 29: Not considering who asked for it and who did not, nor who was fit and who unfit to receive it, Caitanya Mahāprabhu distributed the fruit of devotional service.