Talks with Sarbabhouma Battacharya
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You said that it is the duty of every Sannyasi to hear  Vedanta Sutra , so I simply hear; but the meaning which you create—that I cannot understand.” In other words, the Lord was explaining that in the Mayavadi Sampradaya there are many so-called Sannyasis who are even illiterate and have not sufficient intelligence but just as a matter of formality they hear  Vedanta Sutra  from their Spiritual Master, although they do not understand anything. So far as Lord Chaitanya was concerned, He did not understand the explanation of Bhattacharya because He did not approve of the explanation of Mayavadi philosophy.
When He said that He was an uneducated fool Who could not follow, Bhattacharya replied to Him, “If You do not follow what I am saying, how is it that You do not inquire, but simply sit down silently? It appears that You do have something to say about my explanation.”
Then the Lord replied, “My dear sir, so far as the  Vedanta Sutra  or the codes of the Vedanta are concerned, I can understand the meaning very nicely, but the explanation which you are promoting is not understandable by Me. There is nothing difficult about the meaning of the original codes of  Vedanta Sutra . But the way you were explaining them appears to be obscuring the real meaning of the codes. You do not elucidate the direct meaning of the  Vedanta Sutra , but you imagine something and hide the true meaning. I think you have a particular doctrine, and you are trying to expound it through the codes.”
According to  Mukti Upanishad , there are 108 Upanishads. Some of them are: 1. Iso, 2. Kena, 3. Katha, 4. Prasna, 5. Mund, 6. Mandukya, 7. Tittirih, 8. Aitriya, 9. Chhandogya, 10. Brihadaranoyakam, 11. Brahma, 12. Jaivalya, 13. Javala, 14. Svetsva, 15. Hansa, 16. Arunih, 17. Garbha, 18. Narayana, etc. These 108  Upanishads  contain all knowledge about the Absolute Truth. Sometimes people inquire about the meaning of these 108 prayer beads, but we think because there are 108  Upanishads  which contain full knowledge of the Absolute Truth, therefore 108 beads are accepted. Sometimes, on the other hand, the Vaishnava transcendentalists think there are 108 companions of Lord Krishna in His  Rasa  Dance, and therefore 108 beads are accepted.
Lord Chaitanya protested against misinterpretations of the statements of the  Upanishads , and so any explanation which did not follow the direct meaning of the  Upanishad  He did not accept. The direct interpretation is called  Abhidavritti , whereas the indirect method is called  Lakshnavritti . The indirect meaning, or  Lakshnavritti , serves no purpose. There are four kinds of understanding, called: (1) direct understanding, (2) hypothetical understanding,