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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Ādi 7.114
তাঁর দোষ নাহি, তেঁহো আজ্ঞাকারী দাস ।
আর যেই শুনে তার হয় সর্বনাশ ॥ ১১৪ ॥
tāṅra doṣa nāhi, teṅho ājñā-kārī dāsa
āra yei śune tāra haya sarva-nāśa
“Śaṅkarācārya, who is an incarnation of Lord Śiva, is faultless because he is a servant carrying out the orders of the Lord. But those who follow his Māyāvādī philosophy are doomed. They will lose all their advancement in spiritual knowledge.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śaṅkarācārya, an incarnation of Lord Śiva, is faultless because he carries out the Lord’s orders. Yet the translation warns that followers of his Māyāvādī philosophy lose their advancement in spiritual knowledge.
Māyāvādī philosophers may proudly display Vedānta knowledge through grammatical jugglery. Kṛṣṇa describes them as bereft of real knowledge due to māyā.
Māyā has two potencies: prakṣepātmikā-śakti throws the living entity into material existence, and āvaraṇātmikā-śakti covers the living entity’s knowledge.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
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.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Sevā · Love translated into service
Devotional service expressed through cleansing, caring, teaching, honoring others, and living as Kṛṣṇa’s servant. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “servant”
Kīrtana community · A movement of shared hearts
Devotional community as a living network of branches, service, festivals, care, and collective chanting. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “followers”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
How might pride in learning keep you from recognizing a gap in your spiritual understanding?
Pause before explaining a spiritual teaching today and check whether you understand it or are merely displaying words.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
2 lectures 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.
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