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Prabhupāda: ...herein the explanation of Vedānta-sūtra from Caitanya Mahāprabhu [to] the Māyāvādī sannyāsī of Benares. There are two kinds of …

Māyā: this matter, the external energy, the inferior energy; and those who want to stick to this inferior energy, never …

So chiefly the impersonalist and the void philosophers, they are called Māyāvādī, because they have no other information. They want …

But because we want reality in variety, therefore impersonal philosophy, although we take it as a matter of sectarian philosophy, …

So philosophically or theoretically, we may accept voidness, negation, out of frustration. When we are frustrated in these material varieties …

So the Māyāvādī philosophers of Benares, after hearing the explanation of Vedānta-sūtra from Caitanya Mahāprabhu, they were very much satisfied.

Sei haite sannyāsīra phiri gela mana

[Cc. Ādi 7.149].

[From that moment when the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs heard the explanation of the Vedānta-sūtra from the Lord, their minds changed, and …

Their mind turned. "Oh, this is the real explanation." 'Kṛṣṇa' 'kṛṣṇa' nāma sadā karaye grahaṇa. Now they also began to …

eimate tāṅ-sabāra kṣami' aparādha sabākāre kṛṣṇa-nāma karilā prasāda

[Cc. Ādi 7.150]

[Thus Lord Caitanya excused all the offenses of the Māyāvādī sannyāsīs and very mercifully blessed them with kṛṣṇa-nāma.]

Caitanya Mahāprabhu excused all these offenders. Anyone who is godless, he is offender. So when they chanted "Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa" and …

Their condition is very precarious. Their duration of life is very small, and they are not very intelligent—very slow to …

tabe saba sannyāsī mahāprabhuke laiyā bhikṣā karilena sabhe, madhye vasāiyā

[Cc. Ādi 7.151]

[After this, all the sannyāsīs took the Lord into their midst, and thus they all took their meal together.]

Then all the sannyāsins, placing Caitanya Mahāprabhu in the middle... According to Indian system of dining—you are accustomed—they sit in …

tabe saba sannyāsī mahāprabhuke laiyā bhikṣā karilena sabhe, madhye vasāiyā