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Caitanya-caritāmṛta 3.201

balāi-purohita tāre karilā bhartsana “ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tuñi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?
[balaai-purohita taare karilaa bhartsana “ghata-patiyaa moorkha tuni bhakti kaanhaa jaana?]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
balāi-purohita tāre karilā bhartsana “ghaṭa-paṭiyā mūrkha tuñi bhakti kāṅhā jāna?
The priest named Balarāma Ācārya also chastised Gopāla Cakravartī. “You are a foolish logician,” he said. “What do you know about the devotional service of the Lord?

The philosophy enunciated by the Māyāvādīs is called ghaṭa-paṭiyā (“pot-and-earth”) philosophy. According to this philosophy, everything is one. Such philosophers see no distinction between a pot made of earth and the earth itself, reasoning that anything made of earth, such as different pots, is also the same earth. Since Gopāla Cakravartī was a ghaṭa-paṭiyā logician, a gross materialist, what could he understand about the transcendental devotional service of the Lord?

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
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