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Šri Caitanya -caritāmrta
[[Madhya-lijā. Ch. 6
Brahmā, Nārada, Vyāsadeva, Asita, Arjuna and many others. Similarly, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is also established as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by evidence from the same personalities. This will be explained later.
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শিশু কর্তৃক,— ‘ ঈশ্বর-উষ্ণ সাধি অসুসারে ’ ।।
আটাৰ্ষ ক্ষেত্ৰ; —‘অসমানে ন্যস্ত দ্ৰাঘৰজ্ঞানে ॥ ৮১ ॥’
śiṣya  kahe, —  ‘iśvara-tattva sādhi anumāne’  ācārya kahe, —  ‘anumāne nahe iśvara-jñāne
SYNONYMS
śiṣya kahe —the disciples said;  īśvara-tattva —the truth of the Absolute;  sādhi —derive;  anumāne —by hypothesis;  ācārya kahe —Gopīnātha Ācārya replied;  anumāne —by hypothesis;  nahe —there is not;  īśvara-jñāne —real knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
The disciples of the Bhaṭṭācārya said: “We derive knowledge of the Absolute Truth by logical hypothesis.” Gopīnātha Ācārya replied: “One cannot attain real knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by such logical hypothesis and argument.”
PURPORT
The Māyāvādī philosophers in particular make certain hypotheses about the Absolute Truth. They reason that in the material world we experience that everything is created. If we trace the history of anything, we find a creator. Therefore there must be a creator of this huge cosmic manifestation. By such reasoning they come to the conclusion that a higher power has created this cosmic manifestation. The Māyāvādīs do not accept that great power to be a person. Their brains cannot accommodate the fact that this huge cosmic manifestation can be created by a person. This is because as soon as they think of a person, they think of a person within the material world with limited potency. Sometimes the Māyāvādī philosophers will accept Lord Kṛṣṇa or Lord Rāma as Bhagavān, but they think of the Lord as a person having a material body. The Māyāvādīs do not understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, has a spiritual body. They think of Kṛṣṇa as a great personality, a human being, within whom there is the supreme impersonal power, Brahman. Therefore they finally conclude that the impersonal Brahman is the Supreme, not the personality Kṛṣṇa. This is the basis of Māyāvādī philosophy. However, from the  śāstras  we can understand that the Brahman effulgence is the bodily rays of Kṛṣṇa: