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Hare Krsna dear Vaisnavas please accept my humble obeisances, all glorie

to Guru Maharaja and Srila Prabhupada.

 

 

 

Avaisnava-mukhodgirna-puta-hari-kathamrtam sravanam na kartavyam.

Puta-hari-kathamrtam. Hari-katha, talks of Krsna, they are by themselves

pure. But still, it is prohibited that if it is spoken by an avaisnava,

nondevotee, one should not hear, should not hear. Must immediately reject.

First of all, we have to see who is going to speak about Krsna. Is it a

devotee of Krsna? Is he a Vaisnava or not? If he is not, then immediately

reject: "Oh, we are not going to hear from you." But people do not know. Any

rascal speaking about Bhagavad-gita we hear. That is not the process. Then

you will misunderstand. Avaisnava-mukhod..., sarpocchistam payo yatha. Just

like milk is very good food, everyone knows. But when it is touched by the

tongue of the serpent, it is poison immediately. So we cannot drink poison.

Don't hear Bhagavad-gita or any talk about Krsna from a person who is not a

Vaisnava, who is not a devotee of Krsna. We'll misunderstand. Just like they

will say, they will say, "Oh, Krsna is engaging Arjuna for fighting, for

committing so many sinful activities." No, that is not the fact.

 

**Krsna is engaging Arjuna fighting, to fighting, just to serve His

purpose**. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam. And Arjuna is

executing the mission of Krsna not for his personal benefit. These are the

things.

 

 

It is said that "A brahmana who is very well expert in the brahminical

activities and mantra-tantra-visarada, knows all the Vedic mantras, but if

he is not a Vaisnava, he cannot become guru. But a person born in a family

of dog-eaters, sva-paca, he can become guru if he has become Vaisnava."

Sanatana Gosvami, one of the big acaryas of Gaudiya sampradaya, he has also

said that avaisnava gurur na sa syat. Sa. He says that... I forget that

verse That "A person..." Puta-hari-kathamrtam sravanam na kartavyam.

Avaisnava-mukhodgirna-puta-hari-kathamrtam sravanam na kartavyam. He says

that "You do not try to hear from a person who is avaisnava

hari-kathamrtam." The hari-katha, the message of Krsna like Bhagavad-gita

and other, Bhagavata, Srimad-Bhagavatam, you should not hear from a person

who is not a Vaisnava. In the Bhagavata also it is said, satam prasangat

mama virya-samvido bhavanti hrt-karna-rasayanah-kathah. When we hear from

sad-vekti(?), or Vaisnava, then we get real effect. So if one argues that

"Hari-katha is pure. Even a avaisnava speaks, what is the harm there?" so

Sanatana Gosvami said in connection with this that sravanam na kartavyam

sarpocchistam payo yatha. Just like milk: it is very nice food, but if it is

touched with the lips of a snake, it becomes poisonous. Therefore it is

concluded that we have to hear the transcendental message of Krsna from a

realized soul, a devotee.

 

HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

 

Your eternal servant;

vd.