126 Sr7-Caitanya-caritamrta

misrepresented all the mantras of the Vedanta-sutra with the motive of proving that
there is no separate existence of the living entities and the Supreme Absolute Truth.
This is similar to the politician’s attempt to prove nonviolence from Bhagavad-gita.
Krsna is violent to demons, and to attempt to prove that Krsna is not violent is ulti-
mately to deny Krsna. As such explanations of Bhagavad-gita are absurd, so also is
Sankaracarya’s explanation of Vedanta-sutra, and no sane and reasonable man will
accept it. At present, however, Vedanta-sutra is misrepresented not only by the
so-called Vedantis but also by other unscrupulous persons who are so degraded that
they even recommend that sannyasis eat meat, fish and eggs. In this way, the so-
called followers of Sankara, the impersonalist Mayavadis, are sinking lower and
lower. How can these degraded men explain Vedanta-sutra, which is the essence of
all Vedic literature?

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has declared, mayavadi-bhasya sunile haya sarva-
nasa: anyone who hears commentary on the Vedanta-sutra from the Mayavada
school is completely doomed. As explained in Bhagavad-gita, vedais ca sarvair aham
eva vedyah: all Vedic literature aims to understand Krsna (Bg. 15.15). Mayavada
philosophy, however, has deviated everyone from Krsna. Therefore there is a great
need for the Krsna consciousness movement all over the world to save the world
from degradation. Every intelligent and sane man must abandon the philosophical
explanation of the Mayavadis and accept the explanation of Vaisnava acaryas. One
should read Bhagavad-gita As It /s to try to understand the real purpose of the Vedas.

TEXT 129
adiatn Pacaa cite Gow |
‘Seain-ataz BY CACHA GHTHA I S29 Il
sarvasraya isvarera pranava uddesa
‘tattvamasi’—vakya haya vedera ekadesa
SYNONYMS

sarva-asraya—the reservoir of everything; /Svarera—of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead; pranava—omkara; uddesa—purpose; tattvamasi—the Vedic mantra
tattvamasi (‘‘you are the same’’); vakya—statement; haya—becomes; vedera—of the
Vedic literature; eka-desa—partial understanding.

TRANSLATION

“It is the purpose of the Supreme Personality of Godhead to present pranava
[omkara] as the reservoir of all Vedic knowledge. The words tat tvam asi are only
a partial explanation of the Vedic knowledge.

PURPORT
Tat tvam asi means ‘‘you are the same spiritual identity.”
