CC Antya 3.201
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?