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Šri Caitanya caritāmrta
[[Madhya-lilā Ch.7]
alaukika vākya ceșṭā tāṅra nā bujhiyā parihāsa karivāchi tāṅre ‘vaisnaya’ balivā
SYNONYMS
alaukika —uncommon;  vākya —words;  ceṣṭā —endeavor;  tāṅra —his;  nā —without;  bujhiyā —understanding;  parihāsa —joking;  kariyāchi —I have done;  tāṅre —unto him:  vaiṣṇava —a devotee of the Lord:  balivā —as.
TRANSLATION
“I could not realize when I first spoke with Rāmānanda Rāya that his topics and endeavors were all transcendentally uncommon. I made fun of him simply because he was a Vaiṣṇava.”
PURPORT
Anyone who is a not a Vaiṣṇava or unalloyed devotee of the Supreme Lord must be a materialist. A Vaiṣṇava living according to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s injunctions is certainly not on the materialistic platform. Caitanya means “spiritual force.” All of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s activities were carried out on the platform of spiritual understanding; therefore only those who are on the spiritual platform are able to understand the activities of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Materialistic persons who cannot are generally known as  karmīs  or  jñānīs . The  jñānīs  are mental speculators who simply try to understand what is spirit and what is soul. Their process is  neti neti : “This is not spirit, this is not Brahman.” The  jñānīs  are a little more advanced than the dull-headed  karmīs , who are simply interested in sense gratification. Before becoming a Vaiṣṇava, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya was a mental speculator ( jñānī ), and being such, he always cut jokes with Vaiṣṇavas. A Vaiṣṇava never agrees with the speculative system of the  jñānīs . Both the  jñānīs  and  karmīs  depend on direct sense perception for their imperfect knowledge. The  karmīs  never agree to accept anything not directly perceived, and the  jñānīs  put forth only hypotheses. However, the Vaiṣṇavas, the unalloyed devotees of the Lord, do not follow the process of acquiring knowledge by direct sense perception or mental speculation. Because they are servants of the Supreme Lord, devotees receive knowledge directly from the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He speaks it in  Bhagavad-gītā , or sometimes as He impa
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