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please can anyone say where mirabai the poet devotee is recognized ie isckon gaudya math....

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please can anyone say where mirabai the poet devotee is recognized ie isckon gaudya math....

Direct approach up to me is not proper approach. But approaching through proper channel, through the devotees, that is proper approach. That is real approach. So Gaudiya Math eliminates Mira Bai and so many other apparent devotees to be real devotees. Why? Because they are mad in praise of Krishna, but no so much for the devotees of Krishna.

Krishna is not alone. A king is not alone. King means so many—big establishment. And to approach the king, if it is real, then the approach must be through a channel. So Krishna means he is already surrounded by a big hierarchy, a big bureaucracy. To approach, one cannot approach direct. If his approach is real, he must select a particular channel. And he cannot but praise them, revere them and their magnanimity. It is by their help only we can get the nearness of Krishna. Otherwise not. [bengali:"A horse leaps over the trough in search of food."] One will take a leap across the whole system and then approach the king? It is avastava—unreal.

So when one is engaged so much, apparently, that he is a great devotee of Krishna, eliminating the devotee class, then that devotion has not come to take the shape of real approach. It is a vague thing. He is far from Krishna.

— Srila Sridhar Maharaja

[mrs.moore]

what's that story about her meeting... was it rupa goswami...?

anyone remember it?