Srila B. R. Sridhara Maharaja on Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

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Srila B. R. Sridhara Maharaja has summarized Sarasvati Thakura's mission

thus: (DOES ANYONE KNOW IN WHICH WORK THIS ORIGINALLY APPEARED?)

 

With his first step, he cut to pieces the whole plane of exploitation, and

with his second, he crushed the speculation of scholars of salvation and

liberation. With his third, he softened vaidhi-bhakti with a touch of divine

love (raga-marga). Taking us beyond Vaikuntha, he has introduced us to the

highest worship of Sri Radha and Govinda.

With the softness of Vrndavana within, and the hardness of a devastator

without, he created havoc in the world-fighting with one and all.

Singlehandedly fighting against the whole world and cutting everything to

pieces-that was his external attitude; and his second attitude was to stop

the boasting research of the scholars and doctors of different schools of

thought; and third, to minimize and slacken the grandeur of the worship of

Narayana, and establish the service of Radha-Govinda as the highest

attainment. He caused the domain of love to descend into this plane, with

the service of Radha-Govinda, establishing the flow of divine love from the

heart as all in all.

That was his history-the real existence of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

Thakura Prabhupada. May his divine teachings, bhaktisiddhanta-vani, dance

eternally within the core of our hearts.

[muralidhar_das]

Prabhupada astakam, verse 1