Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 INTERNAL WORMS FROM THE LIFE OF SRILA BHAKTISIDDHANT SARASWATI THAKUR PRABHUPADA Once, the editor of Ananda Bazaar Patrika, a daily newspaper of Calcutta, said to Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur, “I see that there are many hypocrites in your mission, people who are not very sincere. What they say and what they do are not the same. Why don’t you put them out? Let them go home and get married or something. Why keep them in your matha?” Srila Saraswati Thakur replied, “What is a better place than this matha? Is there any better place to save them? Here they may be good or bad, but if their fortune will allow, they will become good. If not, what can I do? Is there any better place? No, there isn’t.” On another occasion the headmaster of the Thakur Bhaktivinode Institute asked Srila Saraswati Thakur, “So many devotees have given up everything, are staying in the matha, and are engaged in devotional service. Why don’t they improve to the advanced stage?” Saraswati Thakur answered, “They have internal worms. They are being eaten up by worms inside. They are taking food but are not getting nourishment because of worms. They are engaging in devotional service, but the advancement is eaten by material desires and secret bad behaviour. So they become weak.” — Remembrance by Sripad Jatisekhar Das, disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati; from the upcoming biography of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta by Sri Srimad Bhaktivikash Swami. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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