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Māyāvādī ācāryas, has written in his book Vedānta-sāra: “The Absolute Truth of eternity, knowledge and Ignorance and all products of ignorance are non-Brahman. the supreme cause and effect. This ignorance is manifested in a collective and individual sense. That is the sum and substance of Māyāvāda philosophy.

After hearing the arguments and talks of Caitanya Mahāprabhu, all the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs who were present became pacified and replied with sweet words: “Dear sir, what You have spoken is all true. A person who attains love of Godhead is certainly very fortunate, and undoubtedly You are very fortunate It is the duty of a sannyāsī to read and understand the Vedānta. Why do You not study it?”

replied, “We shall be very much pleased to hear You because we see that You are just like Nārāyaṇa and We are very much obliged to see and hear You. Therefore we shall be very glad to hear patiently and accept whatever You say.”

There are four different sects of Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, and each follows a different variation of personalism – śuddhādvaita, viśiṣṭādvaita, dvaitādvaita and acintya-bhedābheda. The Māyāvādīs distinguish between Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s body, and therefore they do not recognize the worship study the Vedānta-sūtra, the Lord replied, “Dear sirs, you have asked why I do not study the Vedānta, and

(such as apāṇi-pādaḥ, “the Lord has no hands or feet”) indicate that the Lord has no material body and But He does have His spiritual, transcendental body and His transcendental form. The Lord’s name, form, qualities, entourage and abode are all in the transcendental world. Everything connected with the Supreme Lord is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge.

When impersonalist philosophers refer to the Vedānta and the Upaniṣads, they are actually referring to After Śaṅkarācārya came Sadānanda Yogīndra, who claimed that the Vedānta and Upaniṣads should be understood There are many commentaries on the Vedānta and the Upaniṣads made by Vaiṣṇava ācāryas, and these are

talks of Lord Caitanya that a person who cannot keep his faith in the words of the spiritual master and import of all transcendental literature is revealed to one who has unflinching faith in the Supreme Lord and Lord Caitanya firmly believed in the statements of His spiritual master, and He never neglected the instructions Thus the transcendental potency of the holy name encouraged Him more and more in chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa,

spiritual master had confirmed the validity of the ecstasy He had felt from chanting the holy name of God, and sentiment, one sometimes laughs, sometimes cries, sometimes sings, sometimes dances like a madman, and sometimes runs hither and thither. ecstatic symptoms manifest: crying, changing bodily color, madness, bereavement, silence, pride, ecstasy and Often the person who has attained love of God dances, and such dancing places him in the ocean of the

this Māyāvāda philosophy falls down, for when I teach Māyāvāda philosophy I say that the living entity and the Supreme Lord are one and the same.”

Authoritative books indicating the ultimate goal and written by liberated souls like Vyāsadeva (for example , the Bhagavad-gītā, Mahābhārata and Purāṇas, especially Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, the Mahā-Purāṇa) are called According to Lord Caitanya, the conclusions of the verses of the Pañcarātra and the aphorisms of the Vedānta are one and the same. sages such as Pārāśarī and Karmandī discussed the Vedānta before Vyāsadeva.

In the first two chapters of the Vedānta-sūtra the relationship between the living entities and the Supreme Lord is explained, and in the third chapter the discharge of devotional service is explained. ācāryas of the four Vaiṣṇava communities (sampradāyas) – namely, Rāmānujācārya, Madhvācārya, Viṣṇu Svāmī and ācāryas, down to the present day, have written many books following the principles of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Consequently Lord Caitanya said that direct commentaries on the Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra are glorious

According to the Skanda and Vāyu Purāṇas, the word sūtra refers to a condensed work which carries meaning and import of immeasurable strength without any mistake or fault. Thus one should understand that the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which aim only at Kṛṣṇa, are

must commit mistakes, (2) he must be illusioned, (3) he must possess the tendency to cheat others, and Thus whatever has been spoken and written by Vyāsadeva is considered to be perfect. The Upaniṣads and Vedānta-sūtra aim at the same goal: the Supreme Absolute Truth. When we accept the direct import of the Vedānta-sūtra and Upaniṣads, that is glorious. But the commentaries made by Śaṅkarācārya are indirect and are thus very dangerous for the common man

Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad it is stated, “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the origin of everything, and He is the origin of all religion, the supreme deliverer, and the possessor of all opulences. He is the master of masters, and He is the supreme of supremes. Also, the Ṛg Veda (1.22.20) states that Viṣṇu is the Supreme and that saintly persons are always anxious And in the Aitareya Upaniṣad it is stated that the cosmic manifestation came about when the Lord glanced

Lord Caitanya admitted that Śaṅkarācārya was an incarnation of Lord Śiva, and it is known that Lord Śiva There are twelve mahājanas, great authorities on devotional service, and Lord Śiva is one of them.

transcendental ecstatic attachment for Kṛṣṇa which results from perfectly understanding that the person Kṛṣṇa and He enjoys transcendental pleasure from bhāva, and when bhāva is intensified it is called love of Godhead one compares it with other necessities (namely, religion, economic development, sense gratification and When one is absorbed in temporary, conditioned existence, he hankers after sense gratification and liberation Love of God is the fifth and ultimate goal of human life.

happens, he exhibits transcendental ecstasies by sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, sometimes singing and

He is a transcendental person, and the basic principle of the cosmic manifestation is His energy. One who considers Viṣṇu to be a demigod is certainly mistaken and misled. three modes of material nature, the whole world does not know Me, who am above the material nature and

Caitanya’s spiritual master blessed Him, telling Him: “Dance, sing, propagate this saṅkīrtana movement and