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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.132
সূত্রের মুখ্য অর্থ না করহ ব্যাখ্যান ।
কল্পনার্থে তুমি তাহা কর আচ্ছাদন ॥ ১৩২ ॥
sūtrera mukhya artha nā karaha vyākhyāna
kalpanārthe tumi tāhā kara ācchādana
“You do not explain the direct meaning of the Brahma-sūtras. Indeed, it appears that your business is to cover their real meaning.”
Read Śrīla Prabhupāda's purport on Vedabase.ioThree study points drawn from the translation and purport.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said that the explanations covered the real meaning of the Brahma-sūtras instead of explaining it directly.
The purport says that Māyāvādī interpretations impose an impersonalist conclusion on Vedic literature. It emphasizes that the Bhagavad-gītā clearly presents Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Imaginary meanings require word jugglery and grammatical interpretation. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore warned against hearing Māyāvādī commentaries on Vedic literature.
Śrīla Prabhupāda's own sentences, chosen from the purport as its central points. Read the full purport on Vedabase to see them in place.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
The mood of Madhya 6 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:
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted this proposal, and for seven days He continally heard Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya explain the Vedānta-sūtra. However, the Lord remained very silent.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
Learn the words of the verse.
Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I allow the text's clear presentation of Kṛṣṇa to guide my understanding?
Write down the purport's conclusion: Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 1 lecture. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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