equal vision / preacher's discrimination / Prabhupada's contribution

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Prabhupada also fulfills the descriptions of maha-bhagavata and paramahamsa.

He had equal vision for all living entities, although he also acted with the

preacher's discrimination. Once, an Indian gentleman accused Prabhupada of

not seeing everyone equally because Prabhupada made a distinction between

the sinful nondevotee and the devotee. Prabhupada responded by saying that

he was not on such an elevated platform. He saw the sinner and felt

compelled to tell him to stop. And he did this on the authority of the

Bhagavad-gita and the past acaryas. When the man asked further, "But what

have you done (besides repeating the words of the disciplic succession)?"

Prabhupada said that he had done nothing more than offer these teachings

indiscriminately to the world: "That is my contribution and that is my

version of panditah sama-darsinah."

 

>From "Appreciating Srila Prabhupada" By Satsvarup DG.