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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.110

তাঁহার নাহিক দোষ, ঈশ্বর–আজ্ঞা পাঞা ।

গৌণার্থ করিল মুখ্য অর্থ আচ্ছাদিয়া ॥ ১১০ ॥

tāṅhāra nāhika doṣa, īśvara-ājñā pāñā

gauṇārtha karila mukhya artha ācchādiyā

Translation

“Śaṅkarācārya is not at fault, for it is under the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead that he has covered the real purport of the Vedas.

Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

1
Śaṅkarācārya is not at fault, because he covered the real purport of the Vedas under the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s order.
2
His indirect explanation compromised between atheism and theism to bring atheists to theism. For this purpose he wrote the Śārīraka-bhāṣya commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra.
3
Vedic literature is a source of real knowledge, but readers are misled when it is not accepted as it is. The purport contrasts misleading commentaries with the direct presentation of the Bhagavad-gītā, which brought thousands to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Key points from the purport

The Vedic literature is to be considered a source of real knowledge, but if one does not take it as it is, one will be misled.
Therefore Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, mukhya-vṛttye sei artha parama mahattva: “To teach the Vedic literature according to its direct meaning, without false commentary, is glorious.”
Unfortunately, Śrī Śaṅkarācārya, by the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, compromised between atheism and theism in order to cheat the atheists and bring them to theism, and to do so he gave up the direct method of Vedic knowledge and tried to present a meaning which is indirect.

Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.

How it feels

Collective delight. The Pañca-tattva gives divine love a relational and communal form.

The mood of Ādi 7 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas

Learn the words of the verse.

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Am I approaching Vedic literature to receive its direct teaching and grow in Kṛṣṇa consciousness?

Read a short passage of Bhagavad-gītā as it is today and note one direct teaching without adding your own interpretation.

His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.

1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.

Study points are short summaries, not the translation. Confirm them in the original text and purport on Vedabase.