Don't try to imitate

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Immediately we cannot be first-class devotee. We cannot imitate Haridasa

Thakura. That is not possible. But minimum.

Sankhya-purvaka-nama-gana-natibhih. We have to practice. Certain numerical

strength we must maintain. And we have made it, therefore... Some of our

so-called devotees, they criticize me that I have limited only sixteen

rounds. No, why sixteen rounds? You can make three hundred rounds, but

minimum, minimum sixteen rounds, because we are not accustomed to devote

much time. We must be busy always. But to sit down in one place and chant

Hare Krsna mantra continuously, that is not possible for any conditioned

soul -- unless he is liberated. So don't try to imitate. My Guru Maharaja

has strictly forbidden, "Don't try to imitate big personalities like

Haridasa Thakura, Rupa Gosvami." He used to say, rupa gosvami ke mogha

vancha (?). Rupa Gosvami, because he used to put on a loin cloth... Tyaktva

turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tucchavat bhutva dina-ganesakau

karunaya kaupina-kantha... So it is no use imitating Rupa Gosvami, to

imitate the dress, and then, as soon as there is opportunity, smoke bidi.

(laughter) Don't do this nonsense. This is no use, imitation. Anusarana, not

anukarana. Anukarana is dangerous. Anusarana. Sadhu-marganugamanam. This is

bhakti. We shall try to follow the footsteps of big, big devotees, sadhus.

We cannot... We shall try to follow. Don't try to imitate. That is very

dangerous.

 

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.5 -- Mayapur, February 25, 1977