Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta Ādi 17.308

acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvā

na tāḿs tarkeṇa yojayet

prakṛtibhyaḥ paraḿ yac ca

tad acintyasya lakṣaṇam

SYNONYMS

acintyāḥ — inconceivable; khalu — certainly; ye — those; bhāvāḥ — subject matters; na — not; tān — them; tarkeṇa — by argument; yojayet — one may understand; prakṛtibhyaḥ — to material nature; param — transcendental; yat — that which; ca — and; tat — that; acintyasya — of the inconceivable; lakṣaṇam — a symptom.

TRANSLATION

"Anything transcendental to material nature is called inconceivable, whereas arguments are all mundane. Since mundane arguments cannot touch transcendental subject matters, one should not try to understand transcendental subjects through mundane arguments."

PURPORT

This verse from the Mahābhārata (Bhīṣma-parva 5.22) is also quoted in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (2.5.93), by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī.

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