CC daily 150 – M 6.214 – Logic is a way of thinking and a school of thought

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Thank you Tarkashastra jadami yeche lahu pinda aamadravayile tumi pratap prachanda beautiful rhyming over here pratap prachanda so the PP alliteration is there pratap and prachanda prapra factors they are not just prapra prapra sound is there and then of course pinda and chanda that is also a striking rhyme to the Chaitanya Chaitanya Amrit has not just profound meaning but also has sweet poetry through which that profound meaning is conveyed so here Lord Chaitanya is stating that Tarkashastra jadami Tarkashastra that by logic by relying only on logic in understanding Shastra now Tarkashastra here it can refer to it can refer to logic centric interpretation of scripture or it can also mean scriptures about logic Shastra doesn't necessarily refer to revealed scripture Shastra basically comes from the Sanskrit root Shasana which also gives the word Shasana Shasana means regulation or disciplining so Shastra is that book which gives us directions for disciplining ourselves Shastra is essentially that book which tells us what to do and what not to do so here the important point that we need to understand is that Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya although he he was he gave explanation of Vedanta based on Shankara's understanding and he was trying to teach that Sharirika Bhashya based interpretation of Vedanta Sutra so while teaching this he himself was primarily a Nyaya scholar so Nyaya is often translated as logic and now logic is at one level something which is very it is something which logical faculty something which you all have but in other level logic also refers to the capacity for the capacity for logical analysis and that capacity has been systematized into a school of thought so logic is not just a way of thinking yeah we should think logically not emotionally we may say so logic is not just a way of thinking logic is also a school of thought that means way of thinking means okay anybody can think logically if that person just puts aside the sentiments and thinks calmly people can think logically but it is also in the Indian systems of philosophy there are there are six systems and among the six systems there is the sixth system that is known as the system of Nyaya which is logic so this is not just a way of thinking it is a school of thought that means that it is a whole well developed way of well developed as I said school of thought that means it has its own epistemology it has its ontology it has its eschatology now I won't go into the technicalities of all these terms but the point is philosophy is a whole branch of knowledge and in philosophy as a branch of knowledge is to be understood then how do we understand it it is to be understood by looking at the focus on the particular way in which epistemology, ontology, eschatology are analysed so so it's basically a school of thought just like we may have socialism, capitalism these are not just socio-economic these are not just socio-economic structures of organising country but there are schools of thought underlying these socio-economic socio-economic organisational structures so Nyaya was in and of itself a school of thought and Saro Bhattacharya had been a pioneer in one particular major development within the school of thought of Nyaya he was one of the pioneers of Nava Nyaya of a further development of the system of Nyaya and how he developed it was by his own that itself is a significant history in and of itself without going into that the point here is that Saro Bhattacharya is himself admitting that Nyaya relies only on logic whether it is a way of thinking or whether it is a school of thought in our case it may be just a way of thinking in Saro Bhattacharya's case it was a school of thought the point is that that cannot reveal Krishna that cannot reveal the import in and of itself cannot reveal the import of scripture to understand the import of scripture we also need mercy and mercy comes from comes by the grace of the lord so Saro Bhattacharya is saying here that because of logic because of excessive reliance on logic my heart had become hard like like a hard iron now iron is one of the hardest elements in fact iron is used to as hard as iron we say sometimes iron is used to cut or break things after sharpening so the point is that to cut iron is used to make things reinforce things or to it is considered a symbol of unbreakable strength so to Chetan Mahaprabhu Saro Bhattacharya is saying that Chetan Mahaprabhu you have melted this iron so my intelligence my heart which had become hard because of over reliance on logic that you have transformed and that is no ordinary thing so by your mercy the astonishing potency of your mercy is that even a heart that had become a heart and a head that had become hard like iron because of excessive logic that heart you have now flooded you have melted so that it flows with the with love for you with the flood of mercy that you have inundated into it and that's logic so in a very profound and poetic poetically metaphorical way Saro Bhama is praising Lord Chaitanya here.