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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
way back from Vṛndāvana, when He reached Vārāṇasī, the Lord became the guest of Śrī Tapana Miśra and Candraśekhara, assisted by a Mahārāṣṭra  brāhmaṇa . At that time Vārāṇasī was headed by a great  sannyāsī  of the Māyāvāda school named Śrīpāda Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī. When the Lord was at Vārāṇasī, the people in general became more attracted to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu on account of His mass  saṅkīrtana  movement. Wherever He visited, especially the Viśvanātha temple, thousands of pilgrims would follow Him. Some were attracted by His bodily features, and others were attracted by His melodious songs glorifying the Lord.
The Māyāvādī  sannyāsī s designate themselves as Nārāyaṇa. Vārāṇasī is still overflooded with many Māyāvādī  sannyāsī s. Some people who saw the Lord in His  saṅkīrtana  party considered Him to be actually Nārāyaṇa, and this report reached the camp of the great  sannyāsī  Prakāśānanda.
In India there is always a kind of spiritual rivalry between the Māyāvāda and Bhāgavata schools, and thus when the news of the Lord reached Prakāśānanda he knew that the Lord was a Vaiṣṇava  sannyāsī , and therefore he minimized the value of the Lord before those who brought him the news. He deprecated the activities of the Lord because of His preaching the  saṅkīrtana  movement, which was in his opinion nothing but religious sentiment. Prakāśānanda was a profound student of the  Vedānta , and he advised his followers to give attention to the  Vedānta  and not to indulge in  saṅkīrtana .
One devotee  brāhmaṇa , who became a devotee of the Lord, did not like the criticism of Prakāśānanda, and he went to the Lord to express his regrets. He told the Lord that when he uttered the Lord's name before the  sannyāsī  Prakāśānanda, the latter strongly criticized Him, although he heard him uttering several times the name Caitanya. The  brāhmaṇa  was astonished to see that the  sannyāsī  Prakāśānanda could not vibrate the sound Kṛṣṇa even once, although he uttered the name Caitanya several times.
The Lord smilingly explained to the devotee  brāhmaṇa  why the Māyāvādī cannot utter the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. "The Māyāvādīs are offenders at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, although they utter always  Brahman ,  Ātmā , or  Caitanya , etc. And because they are offenders at the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, they are actually unable to utter the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. The name Kṛṣṇa and the Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa are identical. There is no difference in the absolute realm between the name, form or person of the Absolute Truth because in the absolute realm everything is transcendental bliss. There is no difference between the body and the soul for the Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. Thus He is different from the living entity who is always different from his outward body. Because of Kṛṣṇa's transcen-