Śrila Bhaktivinode Ṭhākur’s Tattva-viveka is a sharpened blade among Vaishnava literatures. It represents a bold philosophical sally against the combined force of history’s prominent thinkers. While all the works of our previous acaryas help in assimilating Lord Caitanya’s teachings, the Tattva-viveka is distinct in its pointed critique of kaitava-dharma, the cheating religions afflicting the world. An analytical exposition of Western and Eastern philosophy and religion, it identifies by name the champions of atheism, skepticism, positivism, impersonalism, and myriad other misled schools of thought, then proceeds to refute their reasoning according to Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s irreproachable acintya-bhedäbheda-tattva doctrine.
This class proceeds verse by verse through the entirety of the original text, and is bolstered throughout by detailed explanations and historical analyses of other schools of philosophical thought.