112 Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta

It is the statement of Carvaka Muni that one should beg, borrow or steal money
to purchase ghee and enjoy life (rnam krtva ghrtarn pibet). Thus even the greatest
atheist of India recommends that one eat ghee, not meat. No one could conceive
of human beings’ eating meat like tigers and dogs, but men have become so degraded
that they are just like animals and can no longer claim to have a human civilization.

TEXT 120
C2 HASG aoa fare’ Aas |
QOH AAT CS HAA-TLE 1 920
hena jiva-tattva lana likhi’ para-tattva
acchanna karila $restha i§vara-mahattva
SYNONYMS

hena—such degraded; jiva-tattva—the living entities; Jama—taking them; /ikhi’—
having written; para-tattva—as the Supreme; acchanna—covering; karila—did;
Srestha—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; Svara—the Lord’s; mahattva—glories.

TRANSLATION

“The Mayavada philosophy is so degraded that it has taken the insignificant living
entities to be the Lord, the Supreme Truth, thus covering the glory and supremacy
of the Absolute Truth with monism.

PURPORT

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura comments in this connection that in all Vedic scrip-
tures the jiva-tattva, the truth of the living entities, is mentioned to be one of the
energies of the Lord. If one does not accept the living entity to be a minute, infini-
tesimal spark of the Supreme but equates the jiva-tattva with the Supreme Brahman
or Supreme Personality of Godhead, it must be understood that his entire philosophy
is based on a misunderstanding. Unfortunately, Sripada Sankaracarya purposely
claimed the jiva-tattva, or living entities, to be equal to the Supreme God. Therefore
his entire philosophy is based on a misunderstanding, and it misguides people to
become atheists whose mission in life is unfulfilled. The mission of human life, as
described in Bhagavad-gita, is to surrender unto the Supreme Lord and become His
devotee, but the Mayavada philosophy misleads one to defy the existence of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead and pose oneself as the Supreme Lord. Thus it
has misguided hundreds and thousands of innocent men.

In the Vedanta-sutra, Vyasadeva has described that the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is potent and that everything, material or spiritual, is but an emanation of
His energy. The Lord, the Supreme Brahman, is the origin or source of everything
(janmady asya yatahi), and all other manifestations are emanations of different
energies of the Lord. This is also confirmed in the Visnu-Purana:
