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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.

[Cc. Ādi 7.149].

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

[Cc. Ādi 7.150]

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 …

[Cc. Ādi 7.151]

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

[Cc. Ādi 7.151]

[Cc. Ādi 7.152]

"And when I shall be favored by Nityānanda Prabhu?" Āra kabe nitāi-cānder koruṇā hoibe, saṁsāra-bāsanā mora kabe tuccha ha'be: "When …

"And when I shall be detached from this material enjoyment, my mind will be purified. My mind will be freed …

Rūpa-raghunātha-pade hoibe ākuti. Now here the author, I mean to..., the singer says that "When I shall be too much …

In other words, if we want to understand Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and Caitanya philosophy, then we should try to follow …

So Rūpa Gosvāmī and Sanātana Gosvāmī, they were sent to Vṛndāvana, and Nityānanda Prabhu was sent to Bengal, that "You …