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The Liberation of Sārvabhauma Bhattācārya
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yasya prabhā prabhavato jagad-aṇḍa-koṭi-kotiṣv aśeṣa-vasudhādi vibhūti-bhinnam tad brahma niṣkalam anantam aśeṣa-bhūtaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“I serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, the primeval Lord, the effulgence of whose transcendental body is known as the  brahmajyoti . That  brahmajyoti , which is unlimited, unfathomed and all-pervasive, is the cause of the creation of unlimited numbers of planets with varieties of climates and specific conditions of life.” ( Brahma-saṁhitā  5.40)
Māyāvādī philosophers study the Vedic literature, but they do not understand that the Absolute Truth in the last stage of realization is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. They do accept the fact that there is a creator of this cosmic manifestation, but that is  anumāna  (hypothesis). The Māyāvādī philosopher’s logic is something like seeing smoke on a hill. When there is a forest fire on a high hill, smoke is first of all visible. The smoke is created when there is fire. Just as one can conclude that there is fire from smoke, the Māyāvādī philosophers conclude that there must be a creator of the cosmic manifestation.
The disciples of Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya wanted evidence to show that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was actually the creator of the cosmic manifestation. Only then would they accept Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original cause of creation. Gopīnātha Ācārya replied that one could not understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead by guesswork. As Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gitā :
nāharṅ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ mūḍho ‘yarṅ nābhijānāti loko mām ajam avyayam
"I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My eternal creative potency [ yogamāyā ]; and so the deluded world knows Me not, who am unborn and infallible." (Bg. 7.25) The Supreme Personality of Godhead reserves the right of not being exposed to nondevotees. He can only be understood by bona fide devotees. Lord Kṛṣṇa says elsewhere in  Bhagavad-gītā ,  bhaktyā mām abhijānāti : "One can understand Me only by the devotional process." (Bg. 18.55) In the Fourth Chapter of  Bhagavad-gītā  Lord Kṛṣṇa says,  bhakto 'si me sakhā ceti rahasyaṁ hy etad uttamam . Here Lord Kṛṣṇa informs Arjuna that He is disclosing the secrets of  Bhagavad-gītā  to him because he is His devotee. Arjuna was not a  sannyāsī , nor was he a Vedāntist or  brāhmaṇa . He was, however, a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. The conclusion is that we have to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead from the devotees. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu Himself says,  guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja . (Cc. Madhya 19.151)