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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 25.26
সূত্র-উপনিষদের মুখ্যার্থ ছাড়িয়া ।
আচার্য ‘কল্পনা’ করে আগ্রহ করিয়া ॥ ২৬ ॥
sūtra-upaniṣadera mukhyārtha chāḍiyā
ācārya ‘kalpanā’ kare āgraha kariyā
“Giving up the direct meaning of the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads, Śaṅkarācārya imagines some other interpretation.
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Śaṅkarācārya gives up the direct meaning of the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads.
In place of that direct meaning, he imagines another interpretation.
The contrast is with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who explains the direct meaning and satisfies the learned scholars.
Reconciliation and broad mercy. Opponents turn toward bhakti; the Lord returns to Purī and embraces devotees.
The mood of Madhya 25 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:
He was always very happy to hear the glories of the Lord, and it was by his arrangement that all the sannyāsīs of Vārāṇasī became devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He invited all the sannyāsīs to his house to meet Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and this incident has been described in the seventh chapter of the Ādi-līlā.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 25
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His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
1 lecture given on it. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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