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Srila B.P. Kesava Maharadza napsal knihu o historii majavady zvanou Vaisnava Vijaya (vaisnavske vitezstvi). Uryvek:
Madhusudana Sarasvati
One of the most learned of advaitavadis was known as Madhusudana
Sarasvati. He was born in the village of Unasia in the Kotalipara
region of Faridpur district of East Bengal. He first studied nyaya
sastra at Navadvipa and then went to Varanasi where he expanded his
studies in Vedanta following the mayavadi commentary ''Sariraka
Bhasya" of Sankaracarya; but his true allegiance was to advaitavadism.
He wrote a book entitled ''Advaita-siddhi" in an attempt to
countermand the awesome impact of Vyasa Raya's book ''Nyayamrta". He
had some peculiar eccentricities in regards to his book
"Advaita-siddhi" and they were he would never allow any copies of it
to be distributed and further he would never even allow any one to
even read it. The book must be heard only from him and in this way he
made it almost impossible for anyone to find any faults with it or
refute any portions of it with exact certainty. Now Vyasa Raya had a
disciple named Rama Tirtha who if he heard something once would not
forgot it and this disciple approaching Madhusudana as a seeker of
knowledge studied "Advaita-siddhi" from him directly and memorized it
completely by hearing it. Afterwards he wrote a very knowledgeable
commentary entitled ''Tarangini" which supported the position taken by
his gurudeva in his "Nyayamrta" and which totally refuted the
commentary postulated by Madhusudana in his "Advaita-siddhi".
During this period Srila Jiva Gosvami, the crown jewel of all those
conversant with the loving personal service with the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, Lord Krsna and acintya-abheda-bheda tattva
came to Varanasi. Some sources say that Madhusudana accompanied Jiva
Gosvamipada from Vrindavan to Varanasi. Anyway however when they
initially met they had serious deliberations regarding devotional piety and
in the process Madhusudana Sarasvati became very much attracted to the
glories of Mahaprabhu's sankirtana mission due to the direct mercy of
Srila Jiva Gosvami. Because of his being very advanced in knowledge
Madhusudana was able to grasp the sublime, esoteric and transcendental
understanding directly from Srila Jiva Gosvamipada who had realized
these understandings receiving the mercy from Sri Nityananda Prabhu
and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu directly. So in this way Madhusudana
Sarasvati's life became completely successful and his crowning glory
was to compile the wonderful and marvelous book " Bhakti Rasayan". In
the very first sloka of this book Madhusudana Sarasvati who formerly
before prescribed the opinion that everything is one, had a change of
consciousness by the mercy of a Vaisnava and wrote of the glories of
devotional service as being the summum bonum and the highest
attainment of human existence. We are supplying this relevant sloka
below for your consideration:
nava-rasa-militaM vA kevalaM vA pumartham
param iha mukunde bhakti-yogaM vadanti
nirapama-sukha-saMvid-rUpam aspRSta-duHkham
tam aham akhila-tuSTyai ZAstra-dRSTyA vyanajmi
nava-rasa-militaM—mixed with the nine sentiment, vA— whether it is,
kevalaM—only, vA—or, pumartham—the goal of human existence, param—the
highest, iha—here, mukunde— in Lord KRSNa, bhakti-yogaM—the path of
devotion, vadanti— they say, nirapama-sukha-saMvid-rUpam—the
recognizable form with unparalleled happiness, aspRSta-duHkham—without
any tinge of unhappiness, tam—to that, aham—l, akhila-tuSTyai—for the
satisfaction of all, ZAstra-dRSTya—with the insight of the scriptures,
vyanajmi—l explain.
Translation
For the satisfaction of all l will now explain with the insight of the
scriptures that the highest goal of human existence is the path of
devotion to Lord KRSNa, which is recognizable in the form of
unparalleled happiness and which is untouched by any tinge of
unhappiness which may or may not be mixed with the nine sentiments.
So from this we can see that Madhusudana Sarasvati having carefully
deliberated over all the scriptures and having received the mercy of
Srila Jiva Gosvami rejected his impersonal concoctions and correctly
ascertained the conclusion that full surrender and loving service to
the Supreme Lord KRSNa is the true purpose and natural constitutional
position of all living entities. By using the word vadanti meaning
they say, Madhusudana is referring to Jiva Gosvami as his gurudeva.
Thus leaving the dry, tasteless knowledge of mayavadism behind him
forever, Madhusudana Sarasvati made devotion to the Supreme Lord KRSNa
the only object of his desire and attained unparalleled happiness
serving the Lord in transcendental knowledge and bliss. Vaisnava
Vijaya!
PS: Celá kniha je online i ke stažení:
http://documents.scribd.com/docs/1teaapqvwor92c2dgf93.pdf