Nityananda Caritamrta

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Dear Bhakti Vikasa Maharaja

 

PAMHO. AGTSP

 

Instead of making uneccessary tirade on this great book, why don't you just

get a copy (I will send you one) and read it first, then you can make

adequate assessment. The book has 27 chapters. The contents of the first 24

chapters are already part of Caitanya Bhagavata, also authored by Srila

Vrindavana dasa Thakura. Which means the authentication of

Nityananda-caritamrta is unquestionable. You may have problem of the last

three chapters mainly because you are not familiar with it. Just because you

are not familiar with something, does that make it unbonafide? Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was in fact well aware of the book.

According to my information, he infact approve the book for the disciples.

In this case of course it is a question of which of the disciple of Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta you want to accept as authority., since you have not talked

to every disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, nor have you asked our own Srila

Prabhupada about the existence of a separate compilation of

Nityananda-caritamrta. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta was compiling Gaudiya Vaisanava

abhidana, but was not completed before he left the planet. So who is to tell

whether Srila Bhaktisiddhanta would not have included the book in the

Gaudiya Vaisnava abhidana?

Dina Bandhu Prabhu, a very respected and senior disciple of Srila

Prabhupada, is the editor. Are you saying he did not go through thouroughly

on the subject of the book while editing? Or you want to say he is not

familiar about the tenets of Vaisnava siddhanta as much as you do? As a

matter of fact Dina Bandhu finds it amusing that you are making a tirade on

the book.

This book is not about Nityananda-vamsa. You will not find any single

sentence propagating such view. The last chapter mentioned about the

appreance of Vircandra Prabhu. The chapter glories Virchandra Prabhu in a

nutshell, but nothing there in the book suggest a descendant of Lord

Nityananda through Birabhadra or any short. So we should just rest aside the

issue of Nityananda-vamsa whether bonafide or not, as it is not in anyway

associated with this publication.

 

ys,

 

Isvara dasa.