How to reconcile our heart with our guru-varga! One such example given below!

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga

(Because sometimes some apparent disparity we can discover in their acaran and siddhānta vichar)

By Śrīla Shyam Das Baba

para-svabhāva-karmāṇi

na praśaṁsen na garhayet

viśvam ekātmakaṁ paśyan

prakrtya purusena ca                                                                   (ŚB 11.28.1)     

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: One should neither praise nor criticize the conditioned nature and activities of other persons. Rather, one should see this world as simply the combination of material nature and the enjoying souls (prakṛti and puruṣa), all based on the one Absolute Truth.

Gauḍīya  Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahāmsa Jagad Guru said that— “This is my advice to you all that do not try to find faults with others, rather try to detect own faults to rectify them. The bonded soul cannot see its own faults.”

From Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam we know the following śloka—

ete na hy adbhutā vyādha

tavāhiṁsādayo guṇāḥ

hari-bhaktau pravṛttā ye

na te syuḥ para-tāpinaḥ                                    (Cc Madhya 22.147)

“O hunter, good qualities like nonviolence, which you have developed, are not at all very astonishing, because those who are engaged in the Lord’s devotional service are never inclined to give pain to others out of envious attitude."

Śrīman Mahāprabhu Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Deva in course of His giving śikṣā to Sanatan Gosvāmī pad has given the following example of a cruel hunter, about how he was converted into a great Vaiṣṇava by the association (causeless mercy) of Śrī Narad Muni. So it is quite natural that a real sadhu Vaiṣṇava cannot have any jealousy against anybody, then how we can expect that Prabhupāda prestha  Śrīla Kunjabihari Vidyabhusan Prabhu, I mean Śrīla Bhakti Vilas Tirtha Gosvāmī  Mahārāj, the most intimate dear eternal associate of Śrīla Prabhupāda can have any jealousy against his junior affectionate  Godbrother Śrīla Hayagriva Brahmachari, I mean Śrīla Bhakti Dayita Madhava Gosvāmī  Mahārāj! Śrīla Kunjada and his absolute dedication unto the lotus feet of Śrīla Prabhupāda can never be erased from the heart of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Śrīla Prabhupāda many times wanted to confirm this point in front of us.

We have many such documents in the form of voice (now we can see in written form) and letters or declarations etc. Even Śrīla Prabhupāda openly declared that— “Those followers (or anugata janas) of Kunja Babu—they will meet with great success.” He declared that— “Kunja Bihari Vidyabhusan Prabhu will be the lifelong manager or overall in charge of Gauḍīya Mission.” So surely he can have the authority to get control over his junior Godbrothers. His dedication or sacrifice has no limit at all. Finally, he took decision to appoint his junior Godbrother Hayagriva Brahmachari as the ācārya of Śrī Caitanya Math after the division took place. But then some of his Godbrothers started speaking to him that this is really unbecoming to see that in your presence your junior Godbrother Hayagriva Prabhu acting as an ācārya of Śrī Caitanya Math, so better if you can take charge. Also some of them wanted to seek some personal interest. Again it is due to some dirty self-interest of some of his Godbrothers and followers—some unexpected or unwanted provocative activities took place, and as a result of which he was bound to leave Ācāryaship to go out of Caitanya Math (externally) without any objection, but the following śloka from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was the only support in his life, because he was over sanguine about the causeless mercy of his senior God brother Prabhupāda prestha Śrīla Kunja Bihari Vidyabhusan, I mean Śrīla Bhakti Vilas Tirtha Gosvāmī  Mahārāj.

tat te ’nukampāṁ su-samīkṣamāṇo

bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam

hṛd-vāg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te

jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk                                                   (ŚB 10.14.8)

My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.

But Śrīla Bhakti Daitya Madhava Gosvāmī Mahārāj—the great Prabhupāda pārṣada always used to show full respect unto his lotus feet, because of his unique or unprecedented sevā mood unto the Lotus feet of Śrīla Prabhupāda. Later on some aprākṛta jealousy took place regarding the sevā competition of Śrīla Prabhupāda, so naturally some of his disciples like Śrīla Bhakti Ballabaha Tirtha Gosvāmī  Maharaj or Śrīla Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvāmī  Mahārāj etc., some of them could not accept those unusual affairs in a normal way (easily), which is quite natural, because this kind of feeling has to be there inside the heart of a genuine disciple. Just like the case of Śrīla Jiva Gosvāmī pad—who could not even bear the suggestion of rectification of Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu book by Śrīla Valllabh Ācārya ji which was compiled by his Gurudeva Śrīla Rupa Gosvāmī pad, then how we can bear the insult of Gauḍīya Math and Gauḍīya guru-varga, just try to realize this point from heart, then surely your angry attitude can go into water, and you can quench your burning heart. Also, we know the aprākṛta fighting always going on between Śrīmati Radharani’s group and Chandravali’s group. Śrīla Prabhupāda said that— “If love and rupture going to happen for the same common unique and absolute purpose of Śrī Kṛṣṇa sevā, then that must be highly appreciated.”

Now one question can arise that how it was at all possible for Śrīla Bhakti Vijnana Bharati Gosvāmī Mahārāj or Śrīla Bhakti Ballabha Tirtha Gosvāmī  Mahārāj to bear all those very very serious dirty remarks passed by Śrīla Bhakti Vedanta Svami Mahārāj against our Gauḍīya Math and Gauḍīya guru-varga including Śrīla Bhakti Daitya Madhava Gosvāmī  Mahārāj who is their beloved Gurudeva? This was simply because they had no information about those dirty comments by Śrīla Svami Mahārāj, otherwise we cannot find even a single mad person who can glorify such an ācārya who repeatedly wanted to ignore and insult his beloved Gurudeva and Gauḍīya Math together with all of his God brothers—I mean Gauḍīya guru-varga.

Gaura Hari Hari Bol