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Śrī Caitanya Caritamrta · Text Madhya 6.97
ভাগবত-ভারত দুই শাস্ত্রের প্রধান ।
সেই দুইগ্রন্থ-বাক্যে নাহি অবধান ॥ ৯৭ ॥
bhāgavata-bhārata dui śāstrera pradhāna
sei dui-grantha-vākye nāhi avadhāna
“Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and the Mahābhārata are the two most important Vedic scriptures, but you have paid no attention to their statements.
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Gopīnātha Ācārya named Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and the Mahābhārata as the two most important Vedic scriptures.
He said that the Bhaṭṭācārya had paid no attention to their statements.
His criticism concerned attention to what these scriptures actually say.
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:
There was then a discussion between the Bhaṭṭācārya and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu concerning the authority of the Vedic scriptures, specifically the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra. The Bhaṭṭācārya was an impersonalist, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu proved that the Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.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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