How does the Gaudiya philosophy relate with the six systems of philosophy?

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so what is exact relationship between say our philosophy and the history of philosophy have Acharyas treated them as progressive or have they treated them as competitive to be refuted so yes, originally they were progressive see one of the fundamental truths we learn in the history of ideas is that no philosophy stays as it is throughout history now even in the Gaudiya Siddhanta if you see the goal doesn’t change but the approach to Vaishnavism of the Vrajagoswamis and of the Bangla Vaishnavas was quite different the Bangla Vaishnavas, they all wrote books in Bengal and all their books were about Lord Chaitanya Chaitanya, Chaitanya Mahakalya, not Chaitanya Chaitanya Chaitanya Chaitanya Mahakalya is a book written by Surali Gupta, Chaitanya Chaitanya Chaitanya Chaitanya and other books, all Chaitanya Bhagwat by Vrindavan Goswami Chaitanya Mahakalya, all these Bengali books and they are biographical, they are non-philosophical they are hermetic in contrast the approach of the Vrajagoswamis in Vrindavan was much more theological much more philosophical, all the books that the Goswamis wrote were on Krishna and all the books that they wrote were on Krishna none of the Goswamis have written any book directly on Chaitanya Mahakalya now there are reasons for that, Chaitanya Mahakalya wanted them to establish the glory of Lord Krishna, but the point is that there are there will always be differences there is a core contiguity that is mentioned and that is quite funny so, coming to this that each of these schools has evolved so now if you go to academic university and decide to study Samkhya, assume in Samkhya itself if you look at the history, there are thousands and thousands of books and those are just the books that have been preserved and so many books, Krishna wrote a Samkhya Karika this is prominent commentary on Samkhya and there are sub-commentaries on his commentaries also so that each field is like an ocean in itself so at the time when Baldevidya Bhojan wrote his Goita Vashya that vision of the 16th philosophy as progressive was for all practical purposes lost so at that time, these 16th were completed and he did not refute Vedanta because we are Vedantas so he refuted all others so that in Vedanta, Vedanta’s conclusion is Brahma is the highest reality so he established Brahma is the highest reality and then he established that Brahman is ultimately personal and that personal is Krishna so these three things in Vedanta it’s very simple, the overall thread of argument is simple enough although the technicalities of the argument are quite complex first is he reiterates the Sutra’s thought that Brahman is the highest reality and he explains how it is the highest reality second is he in his commentary quotes, see again this is a very significant point sometimes we should say we should always quote our previous Acharyas but Baldevidya Bhojan in his full Goita Vashya doesn’t quote any Gaudiya Acharya at all he doesn’t quote Vishwanatha Pitapur once he doesn’t quote Jiva Swami he doesn’t quote Rupa Goswami, no one why? because he is writing for a particular audience what is the purpose of Goita Vashya? he wants to establish our Sampradaya’s authority for the broader Vedic community in India that we are a bona fide Sampradaya so now the broader Vedic community doesn’t accept the Gaudiya Acharya’s authorities so they accept as authorities the Puranas, the Bhagwat the Upanishads so whenever we are having a discussion we need to quote from sources which are acceptable authorities by both sources if I am debating with a scientist if I am debating with a scientist and I say that evolution is wrong because my spiritual master said so get lost, who cares who is the spiritual master so yes, we should convey the message of our Acharyas but about that we may not quote, that is their authority so what he does in Goita Vashya is first he establishes Brahman as the highest reality second is, he establishes through his commentary so he quotes a lot of sources to prove that Brahman is personal and third is he proves that that person is Krishna so the six systems as they were presented at that time were competitive and that’s why Bhagavad Gita Vashya had to refute them so that he could establish the Vedanta as the highest and in Vedanta he could actually prove that Vedanta culminates in Krishna How does the placebo effect relate to