prabhu kahe — Å›una, Å›rÄ«pÄda, ihÄra kÄraṇa
guru more mÅ«rkha dekhi' karila Å›Äsana
31 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LBG(3) , LCC(5) , LSB(9) , TLKS(14)
prabhu kahe - the Lord replied; Å›una - kindly hear; Å›rÄ«pÄda - Your Holiness; ihÄra - of this; kÄraṇa - reason; guru - My spiritual master; more - Me; mÅ«rkha - fool; dekhi' - understanding; karila - he did; Å›Äsana - chastisement.
ÅšrÄ« Caitanya MahÄprabhu replied to PrakÄÅ›Änanda SarasvatÄ«, “My dear sir, kindly hear the reason. My spiritual master considered Me a fool, and therefore he chastised Me.
When PrakÄÅ›Änanda SarasvatÄ« inquired from Lord Caitanya MahÄprabhu why He neither studied VedÄnta nor performed meditation, Lord Caitanya presented Himself as a number one fool in order to indicate that the present age, Kali-yuga, is an age of fools and rascals in which it is not possible to obtain perfection simply by reading VedÄnta philosophy and meditating. The Å›Ästras strongly recommend:
harer nÄma harer nÄma harer nÄmaiva kevalam
kalau nÄsty eva nÄsty eva nÄsty eva gatir anyathÄ
“In this age of quarrel and hypocrisy the only means of deliverance is the chanting of the holy names of the Lord. There is no other way. There is no other way. There is no other way.†People in general in Kali-yuga are so fallen that it is not possible for them to obtain perfection simply by studying the VedÄnta-sÅ«tra. One should therefore seriously take to the constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord.
