No one can understand who is a highly advanced Vaisnava

[Guest guest]

Can you tell who's who in the Vaisnava world ? So, better be safe and don't call anyone bad names or you may get the God police running after you .

 

"It is therefore said, vaisnavera kriya jijna na bhujhaya. A highly advanced Vaisnava lives in such a way that no one can understand what he is or what he was."

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(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 7.3.14, Purport)

[Krsnanatha]

Srila Gaura Kishora das Babji Maharaja would externally present himself as a person of unbalanced mind to push away the interruptions society can create for one's bhajan. There is a story that some little boys took sport in tossing stones at him thinking him just some vacant person.

 

One devotee who had had notible success as a book distributor told me a story of how the devotees had started selling cut-out records at the airport to raise money for the temple. One day a passing airport worker said:

"Hey, why aren't you guys selling your books any more?"

Srila Prabhupada had just recently left the planet.

He said he felt that Srila Prabhupada had just walked up to him in the guise of this person.

He went back to book distribution that day.

We truly never know who is who, thus Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has stated directly that one of the qualifications for constant meditation upon the Lord's holy names is when one is "Ready to offer all respects to others." (Sri Sri Siksataska)

Not just the folks that one may sort out in the mind through some invented grading system as being worthy of basic respect.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Good advice from experience

on the ground of trying

to spread the Holy Name around.

The Lord can choose anyone

to instruct us on Hari bhajan or Guru-seva.Hare Krishna

[theist]

From Gaurachandra's last post Jada Bharata was discussed. I need to reread the account. And also of the Avanti brahmana.