A Vaisnava Guru also can fall down - more proof with original Bengali

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A VAISNAVA GURU IN GOOD STANDING EARLIER CAN ALSO FALL DOWN - MORE PROOF

WITH ORIGINAL BENGALI FROM JAIVA DHARMA FROM DANAVIR MAHARAJ'S ARTICLE:

 

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains in the Jaiva Dharma, Chapter 20, page

213, the second instance in which one should reject his spiritual master.

 

dvitiya karana ei ye. guru-varana samaye gurudeva vaisnava o tattvajna

chilena, kintu sanga-dose pare mayavadi va vaisnava- vidvesi hoiya jan;

erupa guruke partyaga kara kartavya; grhita guru yadi mayavadi va

vaisnava-vidvesi va papasakta

 

WORD TO WORD MEANINGS

 

dvitiya--second; karana--cause; ei ye--is; guru-varana samaye--at the time

of accepting the spiritual master; gurudeva--the spiritual master;

vaisnava--Vaisnava; o--and; tattvajna--one who has knowledge about the

spiritual reality; chilena--was; kintu--but; sanga-dose--due to bad

association; pare--afterwards; mayavadi--impersonalist; va--or;

vaisnava-vidvesi--offensive to Vaisnavas; hoiya jan--became; erupe--in this

way; guruke--to the guru; parityaga--reject; kara kartavya--is a must;

 

TRANSLATION

 

The second instance in which one may reject the guru is when the guru was at

the time of one's initiation a Vaisnava conversant in the Absolute Truth but

later due to bad association became a mayavadi or an offender to the

Vaisnavas. That guru should be rejected.