302 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 6

PURPORT

When a conditioned soul is purified, he is called a devotee. A devotee has his rela-
tionship only with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and his only occupa-
tional duty is to execute devotional service to satisfy the Lord. This service is ren-
dered through the Lord’s representative, the spiritual master: yasya deve para
bhaktir yatha deve tatha gurau. When the devotee executes devotional service
properly, he attains the highest perfection of life—love of Godhead: sa vai puri-
sam paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhoksaje. The ultimate goal of understanding the
Vedas is to be elevated to the platform of rendering loving service to the Lord. The
Mayavadi philosophers, however, consider the central point of relationship to be
the impersonal Brahman, the function of the living entity to be the acquisition of
knowledge of Brahman, resulting in detachment from material activity, and the
ultimate goal of life to be liberation, or merging into the existence of the Supreme.
All of this, however, is simply due to the imagination of the conditioned soul. It
simply opposes him to material activities. One should always remember that all
Vedic literatures are self-evident. No one is allowed to interpret the Vedic verses.
If one does so, he indulges in imagination, and that has no value.

TEXT 180
wie icda CHA ale, Saia-cryes CEA |
BSL FHA Sl afSs-Hy CHA Seo i

4caryera dosa nahi, isvara-ajfia haila
ataeva kalpand kari’ nastika-sastra kaila
SYNONYMS
dcaryera—of Sankaracarya; dosa—fault; nahi— there is not; isvara-ajfia—the
order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; haila—there was; ataeva—
therefore; kalpand—imagination; kari’—making; nastika—atheistic; sastra—scrip-
tures; kaila—prepared.
TRANSLATION

“Actually there is no fault on the part of Sankaracarya. He simply carried out
the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He had to imagine some
kind of interpretation, and therefore he presented a kind of Vedic literature
that is full of atheism.

TEXT 181

AAU FRG IS Fata TAAAUA Te |
WS cory clay BIS WcacahacarSal | rv
