Rāmānanda Rāya is a kāyastha by birth — by the measure of society, a branch of the śūdras. Mahāprabhu, a sannyāsī from a brāhmaṇa family, tells him: you do not want to instruct Me, since My position is high and yours is low. So it was with Narottama Dāsa Ṭhākura too: he was born in a kāyastha family, and many of his disciples were brāhmaṇas. In old age he showed the pastime of paralysis, and envious brāhmaṇas said: this is the punishment for a low-born man initiating brāhmaṇas. He asked for a great saṅkīrtana festival. They carried him there on a palanquin; he jumped down and danced in the kīrtana like a lion, then sat back in the palanquin and was "paralyzed" again.