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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 2.89
‘গোপাল-ভট্টাচার্য’ নাম তাঁর ছোট-ভাই ।
কাশীতে বেদান্ত পড়ি’ গেলা তাঁর ঠাঞি ॥ ৮৯ ॥
‘gopāla-bhaṭṭācārya’ nāma tāṅra choṭa-bhāi
kāśīte vedānta paḍi’ gelā tāṅra ṭhāñi
Bhagavān Ācārya’s brother, whose name was Gopāla Bhaṭṭācārya, had studied Vedānta philosophy at Benares and had then returned to Bhagavān Ācārya’s home.
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Gopāla Bhaṭṭācārya, Bhagavān Ācārya’s younger brother, returned home after studying Vedānta philosophy at Benares.
The purport explains that Vedānta was commonly understood through Śaṅkarācārya’s commentary, the Śārīraka-bhāṣya, both then and at the time of its writing.
It therefore appears that Gopāla Bhaṭṭācārya studied according to the Śārīraka-bhāṣya. This commentary expounds the Māyāvāda philosophy of the impersonalists.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Sorrow and uncompromising discipline. Junior Haridāsa’s exclusion and death present an ethically painful episode.
The mood of Antya 2 as a whole, an editorial reading, not the text itself. See the emotional atlas
From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
Nevertheless, his brother, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Ācārya, discoursed upon the commentary of impersonalism (Māyāvāda). Śrīla Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī, the secretary of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, forbid Bhagavān Ācārya to indulge in hearing that commentary.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 2
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Note the name Śārīraka-bhāṣya, its author, and the philosophy it expounds.
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