a reform/ from Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur

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"The world stands in no need of any reformer. The world has a very

competent person for guiding its minutest happenings. The person who

finds that there is scope for reform of the world himself stands in need

of reform. The world goes on its own perfect way. No person can deflect

it but the breadth of a hair from the course chalked out for it by

Providence. When we perceive any change being actually affected in the

course of events of this world by the agency of any particular

individual, we also know very well that the agent possesses no real

power at any stage. The agent finds himself driven forward by a force

belonging to a different category from himself.

 

"The course of the world does not require to be changed by the activity

of any person. What is necessary is to change our outlook to this very

world. This was done for the contemporary generation by the mercy of Sri

Caitanya. It could be known only to the recipients of His mercy...

 

"The scriptures declare that it is only necessary to listen with an open

mind to the name of Krsna from the lips of a bona fide devotee. As soon

as Krsna enters the listening ear, He clears up the vision of the

listener so that he no longer has any ambition of ever acting the part

of a reformer of any other person, because he finds that nobody is left

without the very highest guidance. It is therefore his own reform, by

the grace of God, whose Supreme necessity and nature he is increasingly

able to realize by the eternally continuing mercy of the Supreme Lord".

 

 

As quoted in "Every Day, Just Write" by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (p.363)

 

 

Anyone knows which work of Bhaktisiddhantaji is it taken from?

 

 

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