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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Antya 3.201
বলাই-পুরোহিত তারে করিলা ভর্ৎসন ।
“ঘট-পটিয়া মূর্খ তুঞি ভক্তি কাঁহা জান ? ২০১ ।। ॥ ২০১ ॥
balāi-purohita tāre karilā bhartsana
“ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tuñi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?
The priest named Balarāma Ācārya also chastised Gopāla Cakravartī. “You are a foolish logician,” he said. “What do you know about the devotional service of the Lord?
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Balarāma Ācārya chastises Gopāla Cakravartī as a foolish logician and questions his understanding of devotional service.
The purport calls the Māyāvādīs’ philosophy ghaṭa-paṭiyā, or “pot-and-earth” philosophy. It reasons that everything is one, seeing no distinction between an earthen pot and the earth itself.
Gopāla Cakravartī is described as a gross materialist using this logic. Such material reasoning cannot understand the transcendental devotional service of the Lord.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Steadfast compassion. Haridāsa’s spiritual conviction and the reach of the holy name confront prejudice and temptation.
The mood of Antya 3 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:
From Benāpola, Haridāsa Ṭhākura went to the village known as Cāndapura, where he lived at the house of Balarāma Ācārya. Thereafter, Haridāsa Ṭhākura was received by two brothers known as Hiraṇya and Govardhana Majumadāra, but in the course of a discussion he was offended by a caste brāhmaṇa known as Gopāla Cakravartī.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Antya 3
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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: “service”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Where might you be trying to understand devotional service only through material comparisons?
Reread the pot-and-earth example and write one sentence about the limitation the purport identifies.
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