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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.151
অতএব শ্রুতি কহে, ব্রহ্ম — সবিশেষ ।
‘মুখ্য’ ছাড়ি’ ‘লক্ষণা’তে মানে নির্বিশেষ ॥ ১৫১ ॥
ataeva śruti kahe, brahma — saviśeṣa
‘mukhya’ chāḍi’ ‘lakṣaṇā’te māne nirviśeṣa
“All these mantras confirm that the Absolute Truth is personal, but the Māyāvādīs, throwing away the direct meaning, interpret the Absolute Truth as impersonal.
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All these mantras confirm that the Absolute Truth is personal.
The Māyāvādīs set aside the direct meaning of these mantras.
By interpretation, they present the Absolute Truth as impersonal rather than accepting the personal conclusion.
Doubt transformed to devotion. Intellectual resistance gives way to a profound change of heart.
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From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:
The greatest mistake made by the Māyāvādī philosophers is in conceiving the Absolute Truth to be impersonal and without energy. In all the Vedas, the unlimited energies of the Absolute Truth have been accepted.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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