Guru-Vaishnavas—their reputation or goodwill should not be misused at all

Really it is a matter of great regret that by taking undue advantage of the reputation of those great Vaiṣṇavas—most of us like to get some personal pratiṣṭhā or sometimes we like to arrange some pratiṣṭhā for some of our favourable figures like father, grandfather, or uncle etc, or for some so-called ācārya who can back me big way to collect pratiṣṭhā in future (or at present), which is surely a great offence. Because in this way without knowing the fact people are being misled. To prove the authenticity of my grandfather as a parṣad of Śrīla Prabhupāda in front of foolish public, we can misuse Guru-Vaiṣṇava (their reputation), whereas maybe he took only harināma from Śrīla Prabhupāda at the last moment. This is the painful situation of our bhajan field. So, in this way, also I can prove my importance (or authenticity) in front of public. Also, to prove the authenticity of any so-called famous ācārya, I can use the reputation (or goodwill) of Guru-Vaiṣṇava in the form of some remark by them about him (also this can be a false representation, because the editing pen is there in my hand) as jewel of Gauḍīya Maṭha, whereas in fact he was the destroyer of Gauḍīya śrauta-panthā. Śrīla Prabhupāda used to say that— “One should not engage or use Guru-Vaiṣṇava as an instrument to prove personal authenticity or as an instrument to collect personal lābha-pūjā-pratiṣṭhā. This kind of manipulation always going on in our bhajan field. We are always busy with such cheap things like stool and urine etc (lābha-pūjā-pratiṣṭhā). Hari-bhajan at present is one kind of gossiping or gospel, nothing else.”

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