SP says it's OK to read other Vedic literature

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> > I beg to point out that Manu Rishi is not one of our previous acaryas.

> >

> > Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das

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> Supposedly then neither are great saints like Ramanujacarya, Yamunacarya,

> Parasara Muni, yet Srila Prabhupada quotes them.

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> Since all of these were good enough previous acaryas for Srila Prabhupada,

> they're good enough previous acharyas for me.

 

Srila Prabhupada also quoted Charlie Chaplin. Where the teachings of other

acaryas are either convenient for preaching or they intersect our gaudiya

acaryas, then they are useful for us. But we don't base our lives around

their works independently of our previous acaryas.

 

Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das