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296 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta [Madhya-lila, Ch. 9
tempt to defeat their philosophy of impersonalism. Generally, they establish the
supremacy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Actually the disciplic succes­
sion of Madhvacarya is known as the Brahma-Vai��ava sect; that is the sect com­
ing down from Lord Brahma. Consequently the Tattvavadis, or followers of
Madhvacarya, do not accept the incident of Lord Brahma's illusion, which is
recorded in the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srila Madhvacarya has pur­
posefully avoided commenting on that portion of Srimad-Bhagavatam in which
brahma-mohana, the illusion of Lord Brahma, is mentioned. Srila Madhavendra
Puri was one of the acaryas in the Tattvavada disciplic succession, and he
established the ultimate goal of transcendentalism to be attainment of pure devo­
tional service, love of Godhead. Those Vai��avas. belonging to the Gauc;liya­
sampradaya, the disciplic succession following Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, are dis­
tinct from the Tattvavadis, although they belong to the same Tattvavada
sampradaya. The followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are therefore known as
the Madhva-Gauc;liya-sampradaya.
The word pa�arxJi refers to those who are opposed to pure devotional service.
In particular, these are the Ma.yavadis, the impersonalists. A definition of pa�ar:u;Jiis
given in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa (1.73), wherein it is stated:
yas tu narayaQaril devaril
brahma-rudradi-daivatai/:1
samatvenaiva vik�eta
sa pa�af)