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Lord Caitanya's Travels to the Holy Places
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than ourselves. However, if there is a superior person present, the superior person cannot be the object of our mercy. Rather, we are objects for the mercy of the superior person. Therefore showing compassion and mercy is a relative activity. It is not the Absolute Truth. Apart from this, we also must know what actual mercy is. To give a sick man something forbidden for him to eat is not mercy. Rather, it is cruelty. Unless we know what mercy really is, we may create an undesirable situation. If we wish to show real mercy, we will preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness in order to revive the lost consciousness of human beings, the living entity's original consciousness. Since the Buddhist philosophy does not admit the existence of the spirit soul, the so-called mercy of the Buddhists is defective.
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বোন্ধাচাৰ্য   ‘নব প্ৰাণ’  সব উঠাইল ।।
ନୃତ୍ର   ସ୍ୱାଞ୍ଜିିକ-ତର୍କି   ପ୍ରାପ୍ତ     କ୍ଷତ୍ର     କ୍ଷତ୍ର     ନିର୍ମିତ     ॥     ୯୦     ॥
bauddhācārya ‘nava praśna’ saba uṭhāila dṛḍha yukti-tarke prabhu khaṇḍa khaṇḍa kaila
SYNONYMS
bauddha-ācārya —the teacher of the Buddhist cult;  nava. praśna —nine different types of questions;  saba —all;  uṭhāila —raised;  dṛḍha —strong;  yukti —argument;  tarke —with logic;  prabhu —Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu;  khaṇḍa khaṇḍa kaila —broke into pieces.
TRANSLATION
The teacher of the Buddhist cult set forth nine principles, but Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu broke them to pieces with His strong logic.
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দার্শনিক পণ্ডিত সবাই পাইল পরাজয় ।।
লোকে হাঁস্যু করে, বৌদ্ধ পাইল লজ্জা-ভয় ॥ ৫১ ॥
dārśanika paṇḍita sabāi pāila parājaya  
 loke hāsya kare, bauddha pāila lajjā-bhaya
SYNONYMS
dārśanika —philosophical speculators;  paṇḍita —scholars;  sabāi —all of them;  pāila parājaya —were defeated;  loke —people in general;  hāsya kare —laugh;  bauddha —the Buddhists;  pāila —got;  lajjā —shame;  bhaya —fear.