CC Antya 3.201
Bengali
বলাই-পুরোহিত তারে করিলা ভর্ৎসন ।
“ঘট-পটিয়া মূর্খ তুঞি ভক্তি কাঁহা জান ? ২০১ ।। ॥ ২০১ ॥
“ঘট-পটিয়া মূর্খ তুঞি ভক্তি কাঁহা জান ? ২০১ ।। ॥ ২০১ ॥
Verse text
balāi-purohita tāre karilā bhartsana
“ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tuñi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?
“ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tuñi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?
Synonyms
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?