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Śrī-Caitanya-caritāmṛta
transcendental form of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , the Māyāvādīs are very proud of their study. Foreseeing the bad effects of their presenting Vedānta philosophy in a perverted way, Śrīla Vyāsadeva compiled  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  as a commentary on  Vedānta-sūtra .  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  is  bhāṣyaṁ brahma-sūtrāṇām ; in other words, all the Vedānta philosophy in the codes of the  Brahma-sūtras  is thoroughly described in the pages of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . Thus the factual propounder of Vedānta philosophy is a Kṛṣṇa conscious person who always engages in reading and understanding  Bhagavad-gītā  and  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and teaching the purport of these books to the entire world. The Māyāvādīs are very proud of having monopolized the Vedānta philosophy, but devotees have their own commentaries on Vedānta such as  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  and others written by the  ācāryas . The commentary of the Gaudīya Vaiṣṇavas is the  Govinda-bhāṣya .
The Māyāvādīs' accusation that devotees do not study Vedānta is false. They do not know that chanting, dancing and preaching the principles of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , called  Bhāgavata-dharma , are the same as studying Vedānta. Since they think that reading Vedānta philosophy is the only function of a  sannyāsī  and they did not find Caitanya Mahāprabhu engaged in such direct study, they criticized the Lord. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya has given special stress to the study of Vedānta philosophy.  Vedānta-vākyeṣu sadā ramantaḥ kaupīnavantaḥ khalu bhāgyavantaḥ : "A  sannyāsī , accepting the renounced order very strictly and wearing nothing more than a loincloth, should always enjoy the philosophical statements in the  Vedānta-sūtra . Such a person in the renounced order is to be considered very fortunate." The Māyāvādīs in Vārāṇasī blasphemed Lord Caitanya because His behavior did not follow these principles. Lord Caitanya, however, bestowed His mercy upon these Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  and delivered them by means of His Vedānta discourses with Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī and Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya.
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মুখ্য সন্ন্যাসী নিজ-ধর্ম নাহি জানে ।
ভাবুক হইয়া কেরে ভাবুকের সনে ॥ ৪২ ॥
mūrkha sannyāsī nija-dharma nāhi jāne bhāvuka ha-iyā phere bhāvukera sane
SYNONYMS
mūrkha —illiterate;  sannyāsī —one in the renounced order of life;  nija-dharma —own duty;  nāhi —does not;  jāne —know;  bhāvuka —in ecstasy;  ha-iyā —becoming;  phere —wanders;  bhāvukera —with another ecstatic person;  sane —with.
TRANSLATION
"This Caitanya Mahāprabhu is an illiterate sannyāsī and therefore does not know His real function. Guided only by His sentiments, He wanders about in the company of other sentimentalists."