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How to study this verse, in six steps
  1. 1Say the verse. Read the transliteration aloud, slowly.
  2. 2Read the word meanings. Go through each word and its meaning.
  3. 3Read the translation. Ask: what is happening here, and who is it about?
  4. 4Read the purport slowly. Read it twice. Don't rush.
  5. 5See Lord Caitanya as Kṛṣṇa. Remember who is acting in the pastime.
  6. 6Take one thing into your day. Note one point and one practice.
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Madhya-līlā · Chapter 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
Madhya 6.175Madhya 6.177

Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.176

এইমতে কল্পিত ভাষ্যে শত দোষ দিল ।

ভট্টাচার্য পূর্বপক্ষ অপার করিল ॥ ১৭৬ ॥

ei-mate kalpita bhāṣye śata doṣa dila

bhaṭṭācārya pūrva-pakṣa apāra karila

Translation

Thus Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu criticized Śaṅkarācārya’s Śārīraka-bhāṣya as imaginary, and He pointed out hundreds of faults in it. To defend Śaṅkarācārya, however, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya presented unlimited opposition.

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This verse has no purport; its meaning is explained by the verses around it.

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Understand it

Three study points drawn from the translation and purport.

Criticism Met With Determined Opposition

  1. 1

    Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu criticized Śaṅkarācārya’s Śārīraka-bhāṣya as imaginary.

  2. 2

    He pointed out hundreds of faults in that commentary.

  3. 3

    Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya presented unlimited opposition in order to defend Śaṅkarācārya.

How it feels

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

Further reading

Madhya 6: The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya

From Śrīla Prabhupāda's chapter summary, the lines nearest this verse:

In all the Vedas, the unlimited energies of the Absolute Truth have been accepted. It is also accepted that the Absolute Truth has His transcendental, blissful, eternal form.
Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Word for word

Learn the words of the verse.

  1. ei-matein this way
  2. kalpitaimagined
  3. bhāṣyein the commentary
  4. śatahundreds
  5. doṣaof faults
  6. dilagave
  7. bhaṭṭācāryaSārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya
  8. pūrva-pakṣaopposing elements
  9. apāraunlimitedly
  10. karilamanifested
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Live it

Take one thing from this verse into your day.

Ask yourself

When a teaching I have accepted is questioned, do I listen carefully or immediately defend it?

Practice

Reread the translation and briefly identify what Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu criticized and whom Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya defended.

Live this todayCriticism Met With Determined OppositionThis verse's lesson: one practice and one question for today

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