CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
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Relationship with
the Supreme Lord

The reason Lord Chaitanya rejected the statement of the Vishnu Purana
made by Ramananda Roy is that He thus rejected a class of philosophers who
are called Karmamimsat. Karmamimsat philosophers accept God as being subject
to one’s work. If one works nicely, God is bound to give them good results:
that is their conclusion. Therefore, from the statement of the Vishnu Purana
as enunciated by Ramananda Roy, the meaning is sometimes drawn that
Vishnu, the Supreme Lord, has no independence. He is bound to award a
certain kind of result to the worker. Such a non-independent Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead becomes subjected to the worshipper, and the worshipper
accepts the Supreme Lord as he wishes, both impersonal and Personal, although
they give more or less stress to the impersonal Feature of the Supreme Absolute
Truth.

Lord Chaitanya did not like this idea of impersonalism, and therefore
He rejected it. He said: “Tell Me if you know of something beyond this
conception of the Supreme Absolute Truth.”

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