An article by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

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> "Understanding the Writings of Bhaktivinoda Thakura"

> By Prabhupada Sri Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Thakura

 

This article conveys very accurately the whole problem with people

like Ananda, Ekstrand and others, who try to understand the teachings of the

acarya through the shroud of their own materialistic minds:

 

> Those who suppose they understand the meaning of his message

> without securing the guiding grace of the acharya are disposed to unduly

> favor the method of empiric study of his writings. There are persons who

> have got by heart almost everything that he wrote without being able to

> catch the least particle of his meaning.

 

These offenders discuss the apparent 'mistakes' of Srila Prabhupada,

using their own logic and understanding as a yardstick to form their

judgements, but BSST states here very clearly the position of the pure

devotee:

 

> The identical verses of the scriptures recited by the devotee

> and the non-devotee, may be apparently misquoted by the devotee but the

> corresponding values of the two processes remain always categorically

> different. The devotee is right even when he apparently misquotes, the

> nondevotee is wrong even when he quotes correctly the very words, chapter

> and verse of the scriptures.

 

Please read the full article if you haven't. It is a great expose of

the mundane rascals and an incise analysis of how to properly approach the

teachings of Sri Guru.

 

Your humble servant,

Hari-sauri dasa