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transcendental position in spite of His becoming expanded in multiple Forms and diffused by His innumerable multiple Forms of energy.
Thus Lord Chaitanya showed many defects in the Mayavadi philosophy, and although Bhattacharya wanted to establish himself with various juggleries of words and logic, Lord Chaitanya was able to maintain Himself from such attacks, and He established that the Vedic literature is meant for three things: to understand our relationship with the Absolute Supreme Personality of Godhead, to act according to that understanding, and at the end to achieve the highest perfection of life, love of Godhead. Anybody who wants to prove something other than the above-mentioned three purposes must be the victim of his own imagination.
The Lord then quoted some verses from the  Puranas , by which He wanted to establish that Sankaracharya was meant to do his teaching by the Supreme order of the Personality of Godhead. He quoted a verse from  Padma Purana  in which it is stated that the Lord ordered Mahadeva Lord Shiva to present some imaginary interpretation of the Vedic literature, and thus try to distract persons from the actual position of the  Veda . “By such activity you try to make them atheists, and after that they can be engaged in producing more population.” In the same  Padma Purana  it is also said that Lord Shiva explained to his wife, Parvati, that in the Age of Kali, in the form of a Brahmin, he would preach the imperfect explanation of the  Veda , known as  Mayavadi , which is actually a second edition of the atheist philosophy of Buddha.
By such explanations of Lord Chaitanya, Bhattacharya was overwhelmed. And, hearing the explanation of Mayavadi philosophy from Lord Chaitanya, he could not speak, and simply remained silent for some time. Lord Chaitanya asked him, “My dear Bhattacharya, don’t be hampered with this explanation. Please take it from Me that the devotional service of the Supreme Lord is the highest perfectional stage of human understanding. Devotional service of the Lord is so attractive that even persons who are already liberated become devotees of the Lord by the inconceivable potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” There are many instances of this in the Vedic literature, such as in the  Srimad Bhagwatam , First Canto, Seventh Chapter: therein is the famous  Atmarama  verse for persons who are attached to self-realization, and liberated from all material attachment. Such liberated impersonalist sages become attracted to devotional service by the various activities of Lord Krishna. That is the transcendental Quality of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Actually, the pure consciousness of the living entity is to understand