Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati to Professor Suthers

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Sunday, July 15, 2001 2:39 PM

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati to Professor Suthers

 

 

> The essential principle of Vaisnavism is that however great a scholar and

> intellectual giant a man may be, he will not be able to appreciate even

the

> easiest points of Vaisnava philosophy until and unless he has entirely

> surrendered himself to an acarya whose character is the embodiment of

> Vaisnava philosophy. You must have heard about the Indian scripture named

> Gita, which has been translated into different languages of the civilized

> world. There is a sloka in it [4.34] which says that Vaisnava philosophy

is

> understandable only with unconditional surrender, honest enquiry, and

> serving temper. It is only to such an approach that professors of Vaisnava

> philosophy with these three as preceptorial fee, that they give

instructions

> about the correct philosophical truths. These professors are never to be

> tempted by any type of wordly fees.

>