अचिन्त्याः खलु ये भावा न तांस्तर्केण योजयेत् ।
प्रकृतिभ्यः परं यच्च तदचिन्त्यस्य लक्षणम् ॥
acintyāḥ khalu ye bhāvā na tāṁs tarkeṇa yojayet |
prakṛtibhyaḥ paraṁ yac ca tad acintyasya lakṣaṇam ||
(Mahābhārata: 6.5.12, 12.5.22; cited in Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.5.93; Laghu Bhāgavatāmṛta: 1.5.111; Tattva Sandarbha: 11, and Caitanya-caritāmṛta 1.17.308)
“Do not assess inconceivable states of being (bhāvas) with argumentation; that which is beyond the [material] elements is the characteristic of the inconceivable.”
Commentary
yad vastu prakṛtibhyaḥ māyā-māyikebhyaḥ paraṁ bhinnaṁ bhavati, tat acintyasya lakṣaṇaṁ svarūpaṁ bhavatīty arthaḥ |
(Bhakti-sāra-pradarśinī-ṭīkā on Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu: 2.5.93)
“[Being] The existence which is ‘beyond’ (param), that is, distinct, from the [material] ‘elements’ (prakṛtitibhyaḥ), that is, from māyā and all that is constituted of māyā, is the characteristic (lakṣaṇam), that is, the nature, of the inconceivable. This is the meaning.”