And please don't forget the samit-panih part

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> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Braja wrote:

> > There's no reference to the entire saying other than this room

> > conversation anywhere on the VedaBase.

>

> I think I'd rather go with oral tradition on this sort of thing in

> general--provided the source is reliable and very close to Srila

> Prabhupada. There's a real danger of rewriting history--if not siddhanta

> too--on the basis of anyone and everyone's creative theories or

> folio-pecking discoveries. The Folio isn't perfect, and it is mediated.

> We're an oral tradition. Evam parampara-praptam. Gurum evabhigacchet.

>

 

Well, I've heard it through oral tradition that it was Ramesvara that came

up with this saying! One of my Godbrothers told me this, and I could check

with him to understand his source for this information.

 

Your servant,

Madhumati devi dasi