Guest guest Posted December 27, 2001 Report Share Posted December 27, 2001 I wrote: > Bhaktivinoda Thakura warns against making a show of inviting Vaisnavas, > feeding them and giving a donation, only for increasing personal prestige. > He says that if you invite many at a time, you may not be able to serve > or respect them properly. > > Where is this stated? I got the following reply: > > "O bhaktas! Please serve in all ways those Vaisnavas who are > > continuously engaged in chanting the pure name. But please don't make > > Vaisnava-seva even lower than karma-kanda by offering dakshina to the > > Vaisnavas while feeding them. Inviting so-called renounced Vaisnavas to > > simply feed them is not the instruction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu." > > Vaisnava-seva, Sajjana Toshani 6/9 > To which my response was: > Thankyou for sending this, but it's rather ambiguous. Do you have the > original Bangla? The sender did not have the original Bangla. Does anyone else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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