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as His eternal servant is a manifestation of ignorance. If we accept the judgment of Lord Kṛṣṇa in  Bhagavad-gītā , however, the Māyāvādīs are to be considered  māyayā-pahṛta-jñāna , or bereft of all knowledge, because they do not recognize the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead or they claim that His existence is a product of the material conception ( māyā ). These are characteristics of  asuras  or demons.
Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, in His discourses with Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, said:
jīvera nistāra lāgi' sūtra kaila vyāsa māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa (Cc. Madhya 6.169)
Vyāsadeva composed the  Vedānta-sūtra  to deliver the conditioned souls from this material world, but Śaṅkarācārya, by presenting the  Vedānta-sūtra  in his own way, has clearly done a great disservice to human society, for one who follows his Māyāvāda philosophy is doomed. In the  Vedānta-sūtra , devotional service is clearly indicated, but the Māyāvādī philosophers refuse to accept the spiritual body of the Supreme Absolute Person and refuse to accept that the living entity has an individual existence separate from that of the Supreme Lord. Thus they have created atheistic havoc all over the world, for such a conclusion is against the very nature of the transcendental process of pure devotional service. The Māyāvādī philosophers' unrealizable ambition to become one with the Supreme through denying the existence of the Personality of Godhead results in a most calamitous misrepresentation of spiritual knowledge, and one who follows this philosophy is doomed to remain perpetually in this material world. Therefore they are called  aviśuddha-buddhayaḥ , or unclean in knowledge. Because they are unclean in knowledge, all their austerities and penances end in frustration. Thus although they may be honored at first as very learned scholars, ultimately they descend to physical activities of politics, social work, etc. Instead of becoming one with the Supreme Lord, they again become one with these material activities. This is explained by  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam :
āruhya kṛcchreṇa paraṁ padaṁ tataḥ patanty adho 'nādṛta-yuṣmad-aṅghrayaḥ (Bhāg. 10.2.32)
In actuality the Māyāvādī philosophers very strictly follow the austerities and penances of spiritual life and in this way are elevated to the impersonal Brahman platform, but due to their negligence of the lotus feet of the Lord they again fall down to material existence.
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