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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.169
জীবের নিস্তার লাগি’ সূত্র কৈল ব্যাস ।
মায়াবাদি-ভাষ্য শুনিলে হয় সর্বনাশ ॥ ১৬৯ ॥
jīvera nistāra lāgi’ sūtra kaila vyāsa
māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa
“Śrīla Vyāsadeva presented the Vedānta philosophy for the deliverance of conditioned souls, but if one hears the commentary of Śaṅkarācārya, everything is spoiled.
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Śrīla Vyāsadeva presented Vedānta philosophy for the deliverance of conditioned souls. The Vedānta-sūtra describes devotional service to the Lord.
The Śārīraka-bhāṣya denies the Lord’s transcendental form and treats the living entity as identical with the Supreme Soul, Brahman.
These interpretations oppose the principle of devotional service. Caitanya Mahāprabhu warns against hearing them because they deprive one of real knowledge.
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Quoted in the purport ofSB 11.2.41
Māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa. If we try to understand Kṛṣṇa alone, without the expansion of His potency, we shall not understand such statements in Bhagavad-gītā as vāsudevaḥ sarvam and ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ.
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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:
The real philosophy of the Absolute Truth states that the Lord and His creation are inconceivably and simultaneously one and different. The conclusion is that the Māyāvādī philosophers are actually atheists.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
Learn the words of the verse.
The themes of love and mercy this verse speaks of.
Kṛpā & transformation · Mercy changes a life
Transformative encounters with grace, from scholars and travelers to renunciants and householders. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “deliverance”
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.
How can the principle of devotional service guide your choice of spiritual commentary?
Before choosing a spiritual commentary today, check whether it upholds the Lord’s transcendental form and devotional service.
His recorded lectures on this verse, and the talks where he quotes it.
Quoted in 23 lectures. Recordings and transcripts on prabhupada.io.
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