It is very easy to take the apron of a sadhu, but it is absolutely difficult to become a real sadhu

We are in confusion whom to accept, because HDG our Puja B.B.B. Swami Ji is speaking in this way, whereas we see Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda and Saccidananda Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura speaking something different. Please, help us to reconcile this disharmony.

All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru Gaurāṅga

It is very easy to take the apron of a sādhu, but it is absolutely difficult to become a real sādhu

(Ācaraṇa is much more important than lecture)

(By Śrīla Śyām Dāsa Bābā) Date: 13.12.2025

Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahāṁsa Jagad Guru said that— “Do not try to discover the nature of truth by the experience of your imagination. Do not endeavor to attain the truth through experience of the world. Do not manufacture truth in order to satisfy your erring inclinations, or hastily accept anything for the reason that it satisfies such inclinations. Do not regard as truth anything that has been ‘built up’ or has the support of a majority of people like yourself, nor as untruth anything that is rejected by the overwhelming majority. According to the śāstra there will be found hardly one in a crore of human beings who really worships the truth (from heart). What is proclaimed by the united voices of all the people of this world as truth may turn out to be false. Therefore, cease to confront the truth in a challenging mood. The truth is not brought into existence by such arrogance. One has to approach the truth in the spirit of absolute submission.”

Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahāṁsa Jagad Guru also said that— “In the way of suddha bhakti, no compromise (whatsoever) can be made.”

Though Śrīla Prabhupāda said this, but still those modern ācāryas like those big big political leaders with a motive to increase their vote bank always like to prove that their soft heart breaking by watching disharmony all around, whereas the chronic disease of disharmony already existing inside their heart, but still only they like to shout— “Harmony! Harmony!”—externally, as if they are more and more merciful or compassionate than Śrīla Prabhupāda or Śrīla Saccidananda Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura, whereas Śrīla Saccidananda Bhakti Vinoda Ṭhākura said that— “It is far better to keep the gośālā vacant than to keep wicked cows there.”

He further said that— “It is true that to run a spiritual organization like maṭha, mandira, etc., need people of renounced order, but anyhow, any such organization run by some people of rāja-tāma guṇa cannot impart any such teachings which is full of absolute idealism, rather, by watching their dirty behavior and activities which all can bring about defame for the society concerned, people can spit on those members of the organization.”

Gaura Hari Haribol