Text 81) The Liberation of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya 233

yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-
kotisv asesa-vasudhadi vibhati-bhinnam

tad brahma niskalam anantam asesa-bhdtam
govindam dadi-purusam tam aharn bhajami

“I serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, the primeval Lord, the
effulgence of whose transcendental body is known as the brahmajyoti. That
brahmajyoti, which is unlimited, unfathomed and all-pervasive, is the cause of the
creation of unlimited numbers of planets with varieties of climates and specific
conditions of life!” (Brahma-sarnhita 5.40)

Mayavadi philosophers study the Vedic literature, but they do not understand
that the Absolute Truth in the last stage of realization is the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, Krsna. They do accept the fact that there is a creator of this cosmic
manifestation, but that is anumana (hypothesis). The Mayavadi philosopher's logic
is something like seeing smoke on a hill. When there is a forest fire on a high hill,
smoke is first of all visible. The smoke is created when there is fire. Just as one can
conclude that there is fire from smoke, the Mayavadi philosophers conclude that
there must be a creator of the cosmic manifestation.

The disciples of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya wanted evidence to show that Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu was actually the creator of the cosmic manifestation. Only
then would they accept Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the original
cause of creation. Gopinatha Acarya replied that one could not understand the
Supreme Personality of Godhead by guesswork. As Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita:

naham prakasah sarvasya
yoga-maya-samavrtah

mtdho ‘yam nabhijanati
loko mam ajam avyayam

“| am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them | am covered by
My eternal creative potency [yogamdydl; and so the deluded world knows Me
not, who am unborn and infallible.” (Bg. 7.25) The Supreme Personality of God-
head reserves the right of not being exposed to nondevotees. He can only be
understood by bona fide devotees. Lord Krsna says elsewhere in Bhagavad-gita,
bhaktyaé mam abhijanati: ‘(One can understand Me only by the devotional pro-
cess.” (Bg. 18.55) In the Fourth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna says, bhakto
‘si me sakha ceti rahasyam hy etad uttamam. Here Lord Krsna informs Arjuna that
He is disclosing the secrets of Bhagavad-gita to him because he is His devotee.
Arjuna was not a sannydsi, nor was he a Vedantist or brahmana. He was, however,
a devotee of Krsna. The conclusion is that we have to understand the Supreme
Personality of Godhead from the devotees. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Himself
says, guru-krsna-prasade paya bhakti-lata-bija. (Cc. Madhya 19.151)
