Prabhupada on Rama-carita-manasa by Tulsidas

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> One reason could be that most of them were departed by the time the book

> was written. Gopal Bhatta Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami could

> theoretically read it, as it was completed maybe a year or two before they

> left this world. But the only one who really would have time to read it

> was Jiva Goswami.

 

Srila Jiva Goswami never made an attempt to meet Tulsidas even though they

were contemporaries. What about the acaryas after Jiva Goswami like

Narottama Das Thakura, Srinivas Acharya Thakura, Shyamananda Pandit, Rasik

Murari, Ramchandra Kaviraja, Visvanatha Chakravarti, Baladeva Vidyabhusana,

Thakura Bhaktivinoda, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati? Many of them quoted from

Valmiki Ramayana but never from Rama-charit-manas. What to talk of reading

it they never made an attempt to obtain a copy of the book or they never

talked about it as far as we know. So I don't see any reason why we should

be interested or promote this book in ISKCON because we have to follow in

the footsteps of the previous acaryas.

 

Your servant,

Nayana-ranjana das