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CC Antya 3.201

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



TEXT 201

balāi-purohita tāre karilā bhartsana
"ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tuñi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?


SYNONYMS

balāi-purohita—the priest named Balarāma Ācārya; tāre—unto Gopāla Cakravartī; karilā—did; bhartsana—chastisement; ghaṭa-paṭiyā—interested in the pot and the earth; mūrkha—fool; tuñi—you; bhakti—devotional service; kāṅhā—what; jāna—do know.


TRANSLATION

The priest named Balarāma Ācārya also chastised Gopāla Cakravartī. "You are a foolish logician," he said. "What do you know about the devotional service of the Lord?


PURPORT

The philosophy enunciated by the Māyāvādīs is called ghaṭa-paṭiyā ("pot-and-earth") philosophy. According to this philosophy, everything is one. Such philosophers see no distinction between a pot made of earth and the earth itself, reasoning that anything made of earth, such as different pots, is also the same earth. Since Gopāla Cakravartī was a ghaṭa-paṭiyā logician, a gross materialist, what could he understand about the transcendental devotional service of the Lord?



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