Nityananda Caritamrta

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Isvara Prabhu wrote:

 

> In this case you have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the authorship

> is not Srila Vrindavana dasa Thakura.

 

I am not coming to any conclusions and I am in no position to judge whether the

book is bonafide or not but here are some points to add to the discussion:

 

(1) Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saravasti Thakura did not refer to this book or print

it as per my knowledge. He was very careful about several Bengali books which

he said were not authorized. For eg. he said that Advaita Prakash is not

authorized according to the source below but still it was printed by Pundarika

Vidyanidhi Prabhu in Vrindavan.

 

>From notes on BSST by Bhakti Vikasa Swami:

 

Even some books that were reported to be Vaisnava books he never accepted, not

believing things that were written in them. These were books like "Advaita

Mangal" and "Advaita Prakash", which were about Advaita Prabhu. Also that which

was written about Narahari Sarakara of Srikhanda, and songs bogusly ascribed to

him he never accepted. According to historians, Narahari Sarakara worshiped

Lord Caitanya as Gauranga-nagara, the enjoyer of Visnupriya, which is bogus and

apasampradayic. (told by Jotisekhara Prabhu)

 

(2) Prabhupada also says somewhere in Cc that there are many unauthorized books

in Bengali.

I can't find the reference now. He says that specifically regarding one book,

Sitadvaita carita:

 

"In an unauthorized book of the name Sitadvaita-carita, published in Bengali in

the unauthorized newspaper Nityananda-dayini in 1792 Sakabda (A.D. 1870), it is

mentioned that Acyutananda was a class friend of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

According to Caitanya-bhagavata, this statement is not at all valid. " (Cc Adi

12.17)

 

I have to check it again but Advaita Prakash which was published by Pundarika

Vidyanidhi Prabhu commits the same mistake of Acyutananda being a contemporary

of LC in one of the later chapters where they visit Vrindavan together and roam

round like friends or contemporaries.

 

Also there was a book sent as as an attached file to Krsna Katha recently by

Radha Raman Prabhu called 'Rasaraj Sri Gauranga' by Haridas babaji. I read a

part of the book and I was shocked to see that he quotes from Narahari Sarkara

Thakura's songs, Locana dasa Thakura, Murari Gupata, Krishnadas Kaviraja etc

etc to prove that LC was the enjoyer of the young damsels of Navadvipa. Infact

he goes on to say that unless one realizes this one cannot enter into

Radha-Krsna lila in Vrindavan. I was disturbed by reading the quotes from

Narahari Sarkara Thakura which seem quite favouring his point of view until I

read from Bhakti Vikasa Swami's notes that Bhaktisiddhanta rejected this

so-caaled songs bogusly ascribed to Narahari Sarkara Thakura.

 

So in such circumstances if one raises the question of the authencity of a

newly published book in Bengali never heard before then I feel it is not

unjustified.

 

Your servant,

Nayana-ranjana das