Text 51] Lord Caitanya’s Travels to the Holy Places 319
than ourselves. However, if there is a superior person present, the superior person
cannot be the object of our mercy. Rather, we are objects for the mercy of the
superior person. Therefore showing compassion and mercy is a relative activity. It
is not the Absolute Truth. Apart from this, we also must know what actual mercy
is. To give asick man something forbidden for him to eat is not mercy. Rather, it is
cruelty. Unless we know what mercy really is, we may create an undesirable situa-
tion. If we wish to show real mercy, we will preach Krsna consciousness in order
to revive the lost consciousness of human beings, the living entity's original con-
sciousness. Since the Buddhist philosophy does not admit the existence of the
spirit soul, the so-called mercy of the Buddhists is defective.
TEXT 50
CaTatord aa err a4 BSF |
Gp AfS-weF Ag Ho We CHAN Co I
bauddhacarya ‘nava prasna’ saba uthaila
drdha yukti-tarke prabhu khanda khanda kaila
SYNONYMS
bauddha-acarya—the teacher of the Buddhist cult; nava. prasna—nine different
types of questions; saba—all; uthaila—raised; drdha—strong; yukti—argument;
tarke—with logic; prabhu—Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; khanda khanda
kaila—broke into pieces.
TRANSLATION
The teacher of the Buddhist cult set forth nine principles, but Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu broke them to pieces with His strong logic.
TEXT 51
wiefite rife Hae Nee aterH |
UTS BD BCA, Ca Ne aS-SH ed Wi
darsanika pandita sabdi paila parajaya
loke hasya kare, bauddha paila lajja-bhaya
SYNONYMS
darsanika—philosophical speculators; pandita—scholars; sabai—all of them;
paila parajaya—were defeated; loke—people in general; hasya kare—laugh;
bauddha—the Buddhists; paila—got; lajja—shame; bhaya—fear.
