CC daily 103 – M 6.110-117 – The cultured dont let disagreements degenerate into disrespect

Text 110 at that time bhattacharya spoke this is sarvam bhattacharya speaking to kopinathacharya they have been discussing the authenticity of uh they had been discussing the authenticity of of chaitanya mahaprabhu's divinity and kopinathacharya just had the last word where he said that argument will be useless because a person convinced against his will remains the same opinion still so taking that cue sarvam bhattacharya also gracefully ends the discussion and he says please go to the place where chaitanya gosai is staying and get him here tell him that i have invited him ask him on my behalf and say that he along with his associates are invited by me so he says that so he said get prasad and give it to chaitanya mahaprabhu and his associates and then after that you can come back and instruct me again it's a little bit uh afterward you can instruct me so acharya bhaginipati so gopinathacharya was the brother-in-law sarvam bhattacharya so they had a friendly bantering sort of relationship so sometimes criticizing sometimes praising sometimes just joking and in this way he was trying to instruct him and this has been going on for some time so here we see difference without any animosity now although as of now sarvam bhattacharya and gopinathacharya have different philosophical stands on issues the stand that they have are opposed to each other but still that does not make them hostile or offensive they don't launch ad hominem attacks on each other they are they're friendly and they sometimes friends sometimes who have intimate relationships they may tease each other they may they like that they may have various reactions but the important point is to recognize that these reactions are not what is meant for our our they are not meant they're not coming from outright hostility so there is there may be philosophical disagreement but that does not have to degenerate into disrespect and sacrificing of culture slaughtering of culture and harsh behavior so that doesn't happen over here and they are they are they part cordially so there's a shift of perspective here and krishnadas gairaj goswami now describes from the perspective of mukundratta so mukunda was like one generation younger and gopinathacharya and sarvabhattacharya were elder middle-aged so they were one generation elder so mukunda was just observing what are the discussion going on and while observing he stated that he felt that when he saw gopinathacharya quoting scripture and establishing siddhanta he felt very pleased and when he saw sarvabhattacharya as intransigent not conceding any ground and still sticking to his guns still although he did not sarovar did not did not rise to the bait of gopinathacharya and get into a big debate but still he did not show any signs of step getting down from his seated opinion also so he felt dukkha rosh he felt he felt distressed and he felt somewhat angered to see this position of sarvabhattacharya so they went to the place of chaitanya mahaprabhu chaitanya mahaprabhu had been given a residence by sarvabhattacharya and started staying there and bhattacharya now he's all that sarvabhattacharya chaitanya mahaprabhu although he and sarvabhattacharya had philosophical differences chaitanya mahaprabhu had already said that you know i have come here to be instructed by you so chaitanya mahaprabhu's treatment of sarvabhattacharya has been very respectful but so he told when he so accordingly he told he was told chaitanya mahaprabhu told that bhattacharya has invited you so naturally because chaitanya mahaprabhu had been the object of discussion gupe acharya told chaitanya mahaprabhu about their discussion to keep him informed about the the way things about what was what may be further discussed just keep him astrid of what was happening and because actually actually what had happened was uh the and now we'll see that chaitanya mahaprabhu does not at all adopt a confrontational stance over here he says here don't speak like this don't don't speak negatively about sarvabhattacharya actually bhattacharya has been very merciful to me so chaitanya mahaprabhu we will see will employ a disarming the strategy of disarming humility humility over here and i will consistently act in a very endearing and humbly and a humble way which will disarm sarvabhauma and then with one devastating conversational blow he will not only topple but transform sarvabhattacharya's conceptions so of course it's not exactly that chaitanya mahaprabhu very consciously deliberately chose this particular strategy sarvabhattacharya chaitanya mahaprabhu was his god and he here is acting according to the situation in an appropriate way what what is the best way and out of the natural humility that his persona possessed so he's saying that actually let's see the good side of sarvabhattacharya and the good side is that he is kindly disposed towards me he wants to do anubhraha he wants to have mercy on me so chaitanya mahaprabhu which is the example here that even when we are having debates we should try to as much as possible to see the good in others also even those who may be intellectually opposed to us and those whose points we need to respond to chaitanya mahaprabhu takes actually an entirely different tag and he says rather than the specific actions that sarvabhattacharya suggested this whole discussion got triggered off because sarvabhattacharya suggested that chaitanya mahaprabhu has been initiated in low sampradaya and i can initiate him in the highest highest sampradaya re-initiate him in a higher sampradaya so from upnathacharya responded that he's transcendental because he's god and then whether or he is god that was a discussion and debate that had happened so here he says that you know focus on the intention what is he desiring he's desiring my well-being so he wants to protect my sanyasa dharma he has almost like paternal affection for me and i'm grateful for that and so why do you fault someone who is actually exhibiting fraternal affection for me we'll see continue in our next talks about how chaitanya mahaprabhu.