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Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
in the movement of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, no longer have any taste for all those activities.
Persons who are under the impression that, in the Form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and in the matter of His devotional service, there is material contamination, are called  Mayavadi . According to their imperfect speculation, the impersonal Brahman is considered the only existence of the cosmic manifestation. As soon as there is a conception of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they consider that it is in contact with Maya, or the external material energy. Similarly, such persons consider all incarnations of the Supreme Lord to be contaminated by this material Nature. According to them, this material body of the living entity, and the action of matter on all the different kinds of identifications of the living entity, are called material manifestation. According to them, liberation means that there is no longer any individual identification, or pure living entity. In other words, a living entity, when he is liberated, becomes One with the Supreme Impersonal Brahman.
According to Mayavadi philosophy it is understood that, in the Personality of Godhead, in the Abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and in the matter of devotional service, the emotional devotees are all under the spell of Maya, and are therefore subjected to the material condition. Persons who forget the transcendental nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, His transcendental Abode and devotional service, as well as the devotee, consider that these are different examples of material activity. Such persons are called  Karmis , or actors in fruitive activities. When one thinks that there is a possibility of arguing about transcendence, he is called agnostic. And when one thinks that there is the possibility to criticize transcendence, he is called atheist. Lord Chaitanya wanted to accept all these different kinds of agnostics, atheists, skeptics, and unfaithfuls, and swallow them in the flood of love of God. Therefore, He accepted the four orders of life—and He accepted the renounced order of life, in order to attract all these forces.
Lord Chaitanya remained a householder until twenty-four only, and in the twenty-fifth year of His life, He accepted the renounced order. After accepting the renounced order, He attracted many other renounced order Sannyasis. During the time that He had been executing the Samkirtan movement in His family, many Mayavadi Sannyasis did not take His movement very seriously. Similarly, the speculative students, atheists, and those who are attached to fruitive activities and unnecessary criticism were also delivered by the Lord after He accepted the Sannyasi order of life. The Lord was so