yaḥ sāṅkhya-paṅkena kutarka-pāṁśunā

yaḥ sāṅkhya-paṅkena kutarka-pāṁśunā
vivarta-gartena ca lupta-dīdhitim |
śuddhaṁ vyadhād vāk-sudhayā maheśvaraṁ
kṛṣṇaṁ sa jīvaḥ prabhur astu me gatiḥ ||
(Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa’s ṭīkā on Tattva-sandarbha: 1.4)

“With the nectar of his words, Śrī Jīva Prabhu revealed the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, whose effulgence had been hidden by the mud of Sāṅkhya, the dust of fallacious logic (kutarka, i.e, Nyāya), and the ditch of Vivarta [i.e., Māyāvāda]. May he be my shelter.”

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