162 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

in the movement of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, no longer have any taste
for all those activities.

Persons who are under the impression that, in the Form of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and in the matter of His devotional service, there is
material contamination, are called Mayavadi. According to their imperfect
speculation, the impersonal Brahman is considered the only existence of the
cosmic manifestation. As soon as there is a conception of the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead, they consider that it is in contact with Maya, or the
external material energy. Similarly, such persons consider all incarnations of
the Supreme Lord to be contaminated by this material Nature. According to
them, this material body of the living entity, and the action of matter on all
the different kinds of identifications of the living entity, are called material
manifestation. According to them, liberation means that there is no longer
any individual identification, or pure living entity. In other words, a living
entity, when he is liberated, becomes One with the Supreme Impersonal
Brahman.

According to Mayavadi philosophy it is understood that, in the Personality
of Godhead, in the Abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and in the
matter of devotional service, the emotional devotees are all under the spell
of Maya, and are therefore subjected to the material condition. Persons who
forget the transcendental nature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
His transcendental Abode and devotional service, as well as the devotee, con-
sider that these are different examples of material activity. Such persons are
called Karmis, or actors in fruitive activities. When one thinks that there is a
possibility of arguing about transcendence, he is called agnostic. And when
one thinks that there is the possibility to criticize transcendence, he is called
atheist. Lord Chaitanya wanted to accept all these different kinds of agnostics,
atheists, skeptics, and unfaithfuls, and swallow them in the flood of love of
God. Therefore, He accepted the four orders of life—and He accepted the
renounced order of life, in order to attract all these forces.

Lord Chaitanya remained a householder until twenty-four only, and in
the twenty-fifth year of His life, He accepted the renounced order. After
accepting the renounced order, He attracted many other renounced order
Sannyasis. During the time that He had been executing the Samkirtan move-
ment in His family, many Mayavadi Sannyasis did not take His movement
very seriously. Similarly, the speculative students, atheists, and those who
are attached to fruitive activities and unnecessary criticism were also delivered
by the Lord after He accepted the Sannyasi order of life. The Lord was so
