Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.8

Mayavadi Philosophy Offends Krishna, Learning from Genuine Acharyas

📅 September 7, 1976 📍 Vrindavan ⏱ 29 min
Avoid Mayavadi deceivers and follow genuine acharyas to escape material bondage through proper spiritual knowledge.
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Sa Sa&ihTaa& >aaGavTaq& k*-TvaNau§-MYa caTMaJaMa( ) īuk-MaDYaaPaYaaMaaSa iNav*itaiNarTa& MauiNa" )) 8 )) [recording suffers from print-through]

Prabhupāda: He's not here? Paṇḍita? Where he is? Hari-śauri: Oh, he's here.

Prabhupāda: Read it. [hums] Pradyumna: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.

Prabhupāda: No, that is finished. Number three. Number eight! Pradyumna: sa saṁhitāṁ bhāgavatīṁ kṛtvānukramya cātma-jam śukam adhyāpayām āsa nivṛtti-nirataṁ muniḥ [SB 1.7.8] [02:58] Translation: "The great sage Vyāsadeva, after compiling the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and revising it, taught it to his own son, Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who was already engaged in self-realization." Prabhupāda: sa saṁhitāṁ bhāgavatīṁ kṛtvānukramya cātma-jam śukam adhyāpayām āsa nivṛtti-nirataṁ muniḥ [SB 1.7.8] So this saṁhitā...

Saṁhitā means Vedic literature. There are many rascals, they say that Bhāgavata was not written by Vyāsadeva; it was written by some Bopadeva. They say like that, Māyāvādīs, the Nirīśvaravādī. Because although Nirīśvaravādī, or Māyāvādī leader, Śaṅkarācārya, he wrote comments on Bhagavad-gītā, but he could not touch Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, because in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the things are so nicely set up, kṛtvānukramya, that it is not possible by the Māyāvādīs to prove that God is impersonal.

They cannot do it. Nowadays they are doing, reading Bhāgavatam in their own way, but that does not appeal to any sane man. Sometimes I have seen a big Māyāvādī is explaining one verse from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that "Because you are God, therefore if you are pleased, then God is pleased." This is their philosophy. "You do not require to please God separately.

So if you are pleased by drinking wine, then God is pleased." This is their explanation. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu has condemned this Māyāvādī commentary. Caitanya Mahāprabhu has said, māyāvādi-bhāṣya śunile haya sarva-nāśa [Cc Madhya 6.169]. Māyāvādī kṛṣṇe aparādhī.

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