90 Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta

‘nitya-dasa’: the living entity is an eternal servant of the Supreme God. (Cc. Madhya
20.108) Therefore, to act in that relationship, one must perform sadhana-bhakti, or
the prescribed duties of service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is
called abhidheya-jhana. The fourth chapter describes the result of such devotional
service (prayojana-jnana). This ultimate goal of life is to go back home, back to
Godhead. The words anavrttih sabdat in the Vedanta-sutra indicate this ultimate
goal.

Srila Vyasadeva, the powerful incarnation of Narayana, compiled Vedanta-sutra,
and in order to protect it from unauthorized commentaries, he personally composed
Srimad-Bhagavatam on the instruction of his spiritual master, Narada Muni, as the
original commentary on Vedanta-sutra. Besides Srimad-Bhagavatam, there are com-
mentaries on the Vedanta-sutra composed by all the major Vaisnava acaryas, and in
each of them devotional service to the Lord is described very explicitly. Only those
who follow Safkara’s commentary have described Vedanta-sutra in an impersonal
way, without reference to Visnu-bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord, Visnu.
Generally people very much appreciate this Sariraka-bhasya or impersonal descrip-
tion of the Vedanta-sutra, but all commentaries which are devoid of devotional
service to Lord Visnu must be considered to differ in purpose from the original
Vedanta-sutra. \n other words, Lord Caitanya definitely confirmed that the com-
mentaries or bhasyas written by the Vaisnava acaryas on the basis of devotional
service to Lord Visnu, and not the Sariraka-bhasya of Sankaracarya, give the actual
explanation of Vedanta-sutra.

TEXT 107
wa, ante, facto, sated |
BIA ACT AHS CATA aS WA 909 |
bhrama, pramada, vipralipsa, karanapatava
isvarera vakye nahi dosa ei saba

bhrama—mistake; pramada — illusion; vipralipsa—cheating purposes; karanapatava—
inefficiency of the material senses; /Svarera—of the Lord; vakye—in the speech;
nahi—there is not; dosa—fault; e/ saba—all this.

TRANSLATION

“The material defects of mistakes, illusions, cheating and sensory inefficiency do

not exist in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT

A mistake is the acceptance of an object to be different than what it is or the
acceptance of false knowledge. For example, one may see a rope in the dark and
think it to be a serpent, or one may see a glittering oyster shell and think it to be
gold. These are mistakes. Similarly, an illusion is a misunderstanding which arises
