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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.81
শিষ্য কহে, — ‘ঈশ্বর-তত্ত্ব সাধি অনুমানে ।’
আচার্য কহে, — ‘অনুমানে নহে ঈশ্বরজ্ঞানে ॥ ৮১ ॥
śiṣya kahe, — ‘īśvara-tattva sādhi anumāne’
ācārya kahe, — ‘anumāne nahe īśvara-jñāne
The disciples of the Bhaṭṭācārya said, “We derive knowledge of the Absolute Truth by logical hypothesis.”
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The disciples of the Bhaṭṭācārya said they derived knowledge of the Absolute Truth by logical hypothesis.
Gopīnātha Ācārya rejected logical hypothesis and argument as the means of attaining real knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The verse distinguishes claims based on reasoning from real knowledge of the Supreme Lord.
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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:
His brother-in-law, Gopīnātha Ācārya, established that Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was Kṛṣṇa Himself, but Sārvabhauma and his many disciples could not accept this. However, Gopīnātha Ācārya convinced Sārvabhauma that no one can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead without being favored by Him.Read the whole chapter summaryBack to this verse in Madhya 6
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Vraja-smaraṇa · Remembrance of Vṛndāvana
The remembered sweetness of Vraja that colors Mahāprabhu’s pilgrimage, Ratha-yātrā, and later states of separation. · In the Prema Atlas
In this verse: “gopīnātha”
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Take one thing from this verse into your day.
Do I sometimes mistake my own reasoning for real knowledge of the Supreme Lord?
Identify one assumption you hold about the Supreme Lord, and acknowledge that your reasoning alone does not establish it.
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