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The Lord Travels to Vrndāvana
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In the  Madhya-khanda , Chapter Twenty, it is said::
sannyāsī ‘prakāśānanda’ vasaye kāśīte more khaṇḍa-khaṇḍa veṭā kare bhāla-mate
paḍāya  ‘vedānta’, mora ‘vigraha’ nā māne kuṣṭha karāiluṅ aṅge, tabu nāhi jāne
‘satya’ mora ‘lilā-karma’, ‘satya’ mora ‘sthāna’ ihā ‘mithyā’ bale, more kare khān-khān
Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī used to explain impersonalism, the Absolute Truth, as being without hands, legs, mouths or eyes. In this way he used to cheat the people by denying the personal form of the Lord. Such a foolish person was Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, whose only business was to sever the limbs of the Lord by proving the Lord impersonal. Although the Lord has form, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī was attempting to cut off the hands and legs of the Lord. This is the business of demons. The  Vedas  state that people who do not accept the Lord's form are rascals. The form of the Lord is factual, for Kṛṣṇa states in  Bhagavad-gītā  (15.15):  vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ . When Kṛṣṇa says  aham , He says "I am," which means "I," the person. He adds the word  eva , which is used for conclusive verification. It is by Vedānta philosophy that one has to know the Supreme Person. Whoever describes Vedic knowledge as impersonal is a demon. One becomes successful in life by worshiping the form of the Lord. The Māyāvādī  sannyāsīs  deny the form of the Lord, which delivers all fallen souls. Indeed, this form is cut to pieces by Māyāvādī demons.
The Personality of Godhead is worshiped by exalted demigods like Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva. The original Māyāvādī  sannyāsī , Śaṅkarācārya, also accepted the fact that the Lord's form is transcendental.  Nārāyaṇaḥ paro 'vyaktāt : "Nārāyaṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is beyond the  avyakta , the unmanifested material energy."  Avyaktād aṇḍa-sambhavaḥ : "This material world is a creation of that unmanifested material energy." However, Nārāyaṇa has His own eternal form, which is not created by material energy. Simply by worshiping the form of the Lord, one is purified. However, Māyāvādī  sannyāsī s are impersonalist philosophers, and they describe the form of the Lord as  māyā , or false. How can one be purified by worshiping something false? Māyāvādī philosophers have no sufficient reason for being impersonalists. They blindly follow a principle that cannot be supported by reason or argument. This was the situation with Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, the chief Māyāvādī  sannyāsī  of Benares. He was supposed to teach Vedānta philosophy, but he would not accept the form of the Lord; therefore he was attacked with leprosy. Nonetheless, he continued to commit sins by desc