310 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Antya-lila, Ch. 3

TRANSLATION

All the members of the assembly who had heard the challenge were greatly
agitated, and they got up, making a tumultuous sound. Hiranya and
Govardhana Majumadara both immediately chastised the brahmana tax col-
lector.

TEXT 201

ame-Acatfes Sica shen Se ae |
“ap-oifoal ae Ges Ser Fiat ota 7? 205 U

balai-purohita tare karila bhartsana
“ghata-patiya murkha tufi bhakti kanha jana?

SYNONYMS

balai-purohita—the priest named Balarama Ac&rya; tare—unto Gopéla
Cakravarti; karila—did; bhartsana—chastisement; ghata-patiya —interested in the
pot and the earth; mdrkha—fool; tufi—you; bhakti—devotional service;
kanhha—what; jana—do know.

TRANSLATION

The priest named Balarama Acarya chastised Gopala Cakravarti. “You are a
foolish logician,” he said. ‘What do you know about the devotional service of
the Lord?

PURPORT

The philosophy enunciated by the Mayavadis is called ghata-patiyd philosophy.
According to this philosophy, everything is one, everything is earth, and therefore
anything made of earth, such as different pots, is also the same earth. Such phi-
losophers see no distinction between a pot made of earth and the earth itself.
Since Gopala Cakravarti was a ghata-patiyd logician, a gross materialist, what
could he understand about the transcendental devotional service of the Lord?

TEXT 202

afaata-sisca Glee Cafe tate |
WFAA BCA CHA, AM BCA FETS "Qo |

haridasa-thakure tufi kaili apamdna!
sarva-nasa habe tora, nd habe kalydna”
