Adi-lila, Chapter 7 31

PURPORT

While preaching Krsna consciousness with full vigor, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu
faced many Mayavadi philosophers. Similarly, we are also facing opposing svamis,
yogis, impersonalists, scientists, philosophers and other mental speculators, and by
the grace of Lord Krsna we successfully defeat all of them without difficulty.

TEXT 41

ABA sel BeA Na, atea |
al VCH CAPTS-AS, BEA HLHVGA 1 8S

sannyasi ha-iya kare gayana, nacana
na kare vedanta-patha, kare sankirtana

SYNONYMS

sannyasi—a person in the renounced order of life; Aa-iya—accepting such a posi-
tion; Rkare—does; gayana—singing; nacana—dancing; na kare—does not practice;
vedanta-patha—study of the Vedanta philosophy; kare sankirtana—but simply en-
gages in sankirtana.

TRANSLATION

“Although a sannyasi, He does not take interest in the study of Vedanta but in-
stead always engages in chanting and dancing in sankirtana,

PURPORT

Fortunately or unfortunately, we also meet such Mayavadis who criticize our
method of chanting and accuse us of not being interested in study. They do not
know that we have translated volumes and volumes of books into English and that
the students in our temples regularly study them in the morning, afternoon and
evening. We are writing and printing books, and our students study them and dis-
tribute them all over the world. No Mayavadi school can present as many books as
we have; nevertheless, they accuse us of not being fond of study. Such accusations
are completely false. But although we study, we do not study the nonsense of the
Mayavadis.

Mayavadi sannyasis neither chant nor dance. Their technical objection is that this
method of chanting and dancingis called tauryatrika, which indicates that a sannyas7
should completely avoid such activities and engage his time in the study of Vedanta.
Actually, such. men do not understand what is meant by Vedanta. In Bhagavad-gita
it is said: vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham. ‘‘By all
the Vedas | am to be known; indeed | am the compiler of Vedanta, and | am the
knower of the Vedas.” (Bg. 15.15) Lord Krsna is the actual compiler of Vedanta,
and whatever He speaks is Vedanta philosophy. Although they are lacking the
knowledge of Vedanta presented by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the
