Please never mind, your society always adopting offensive mood, so we on behalf of whole Sarasvati Gaudiya Sampradaya bound to adopt defensive mood

All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru and Gaurāṅga

Please never mind, your society always adopting offensive mood, so we on behalf of whole Sarasvatī Gauḍīya Sampradaya bound to adopt defensive mood

(Be careful that our invaluable life is not meant for dirty politics in the name of Hari-bhajan, but surely we have our fundamental right to defend such attack on us by you – see all the documents available in the link: https://www.echoes-of-eternity.com/beyond-the-veil)

From Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta we can see the following śloka—

ete na hy adbhutā vyādha

tavāhiṁsādayo guṇāḥ

hari-bhaktau pravṛttā ye

na te syuḥ para-tāpinaḥ

(Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya Lila 8/143)

Oh! Hunter, this is not strange at all—that in you all good qualities like nonviolence etc already developed. Those who are engaged in Hari-bhakti (Hari-bhajan)—they never become the cause of anybody’s suffering.

From Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya Lila 22/74-76 we can see all the divine qualities of a Vaiṣṇava in true sense—

kṛpālu, akṛta-droha, satya-sāra sama

nidoṣa, vadānya, mṛdu, śuci, akiñcana

sarvopakāraka, śānta, kṛṣṇaika-śaraṇa

akāma, anīha, sthira, vijita-ṣaḍ-guṇa

mita-bhuk, apramatta, mānada, amānī

gambhīra, karuṇa, maitra, kavi, dakṣa, maunī

“Devotees are always merciful, humble, truthful, equal to all, faultless, magnanimous, mild and clean. They are without material possessions, and they perform welfare work for everyone. They are peaceful, surrendered to Kṛṣṇa and desireless. They are indifferent to material acquisitions and are fixed in devotional service. They completely control the six bad qualities — lust, anger, greed and so forth. They eat only as much as required, and they are not inebriated. They are respectful, grave, compassionate and without false prestige. They are friendly, poetic, expert and silent.”

Kṛṣṇaika-śaraṇa being the pivoted quality those are the divine qualities of Vaiṣṇavas as given above, but it is written in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta that all the qualities of Kṛṣṇa coming inside the heart of Kṛṣṇa-bhakta. Gauḍīya-goṣṭhī-patiḥ Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Jagad Guru said that— "It is my advice to you all that do not try to seek faults with others, rather try to find faults in you to rectify yourself (to become sādhu).” He often used to say that— “It is the nature of bonded souls that they cannot find any faults in themselves, only can find faults in others”. Somebody wanted to put a question in front of Śrīla Prabhupāda that— “Are genuine saints (sādhus) respected in this world?”. The answer by Śrīla Prabhupāda was that— “In such a world which is full of duplicity only duplicitous persons are honoured. Genuine saints (sādhus), who don’t lead the masses along the wrong path, are not respected in this world. In modern times people are simply getting cheated by those who mislead the masses throughout a pretentious form of spiritual discourse has somehow emerged as the religion of the age (yuga-dharma). And because the true saints (sādhus) wish to expose wicked and unholy persons (asādhus) those same unholy cheaters bewilder the masses by condemning the true saints (sādhus) as unholy, duplicitous and thieves themselves in a plot to secure their escape. The illusory potency of the Lord Māyā never allows the jīvās to be sincere (niṣkapaṭa) and to that end she has been depriving the jīvās of the association of genuine saints (sādhus).” Śrīla Prabhupāda further said that “The nature and karma of others not to be criticized or praised, —this is the instruction of Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. Also, as per Śrī Caitanya Bhāgavata—

madyapera niṣkṛti āchaye kona-kāle

paracarccakera gati nahe kabhu bhāle

A drunkard will be delivered in due course of time, but one who engages in blasphemy will never attain the goal of life.

(Caitanya Bhāgavata, Madhya Lila 13/43)

Gauḍīya-goṣṭhī-patiḥ Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Jagad Guru said that— “A critic is led to hell. Instead of criticizing the nature (and karma) of others try to rectify yourself. This is my advice to you all. Śrī Gurudeva’s (all Śrī Guru-Vaiṣṇava’s) effort to chastise us and his criticism etc all are for the maṅgala of people (us). We should not run such a risk.”

A very heavy feeling of anguish has been accumulated for the past 50 years inside the heart of those Gauḍīya Maṭh devotees by the strategy adopted by your society regarding mispreaching and criticism against Gauḍīya Maṭh and those eternal sevāks of Gauḍīya Maṭh (I mean our Guru-varga). So surely we have our right to defend all those mispreaching and criticism. For the seekers of Gaurasundara’s selected ones we are bound to show the following writings published on behalf of Viśva-vaiṣṇava Rāja-sabhā in the year of 1930 for those owlish persons who are incapable of seeing the divine glamour—name fame or position—of Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭh.

Ācārya Kesari Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Pragyan Kesava Gosvāmī Maharaj the disciple of Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda Paramahaṁsa Jagadguru  said that—“With a strong hope to get pratiṣṭhā by exhibiting our personal talent, if we never hesitate to identify our most favourable benefactor (or true well-wisher) previous ācāryas as ignorant and foolish, then in that case our children (our next generations) they also can call us ignorant, foolish or uncivilized (or brute) etc. what strange or surprise can be there in it?”

Never try to transgress the divine dignity of those great sādhus (Mahājanas), rather try to show them great honour (appropriate honour), otherwise you will meet with such a result as was there with Hiraṇyakaśipu-Rāvaṇa-Kaṁsā-Śiśupāla etc., if you ignore the Absolute Truth.

Śrīla Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura has given the advice to those pracāraks (preachers) in the following way— “Try to rectify those wrong mata-bads (or vicāras) with full care. If in course of doing so some problems (or some disturbances) can develop with those cunning bad guys or cheaters, but still you must accept or face those problems for the sake of Śrīmān Mahāprabhu. Human birth is very rare. So even one day should not go in vain. Without attaining neutral platform (or without being completely free of selfishness) one cannot get the right to sit in the āsana reserved for Ācārya.

It may be asked— “What does the Gauḍīya Maṭh do? Is the Gauḍīya Maṭh merely one other association like thousands of sects that we do be found in this world? Or is the Gauḍīya Maṭh one of the many mischievous organizations that carry on their activities in the world? What work does the Gauḍīya Maṭh do for the benefit of the world? Is the Gauḍīya Maṭh affectionate like mother, a protector like father or helper like a brother? What good does the Gauḍīya Maṭh do to the world, what well-being of society does it desire, what very inconsiderable service does it render to the mankind that the world, the civilized world or the whole of mankind, should listen to it’s message?”

Many such questions may arise in our minds……………. There need be no want of harmony between Gauḍīya Maṭh and the whole world, as the only disharmony is caused by one little word. The Gauḍīya Maṭh says that harmony between itself and the whole world can be established by means of one word, viz that the duty of all jīvās consist in the exclusive service of the adokṣaja—the transcendent.

The Gauḍīya Maṭh is not a material object which has been transformed into a spiritual entity by being dedicated to the service of Godhead. The Gauḍīya Maṭh possesses eternal spiritual existence which manifests itself on the plane of phenomena by the grace of the servants of the Supreme Lord……………. The Gauḍīya Maṭh is not built of brick mortar like our houses notwithstanding the testimony of ourselves to the contrary. Neither are its inmates, mere clay surcharged with spiritual essence. The one is not identical with the other. The Gauḍīya Maṭh is not the symbol but the reality. The Gauḍīya Maṭh is a spiritual substance itself appearing as symbol by descending within the ken of our material vision. This is perfectly consistent with the highest empiric logic and the highest empiric experience and so there need be no cause for consistent opposition to the truth on the part even of mental speculationists.

“For the Seekers of Gaurasundara's Selected Ones

Once, being asked by a young man in Delhi, "Why do you claim that Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh is the only way to God? Is there no other way at all?" Śrīla Prabhupāda, the illustrious Founder and Ācārya of Śrī Caitanya Math and its world-wide affiliated branches Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭhs, replied, "Do you think that there is any other pathway to God, than the association of those, whom Godhead Himself has selected for His Service?"

We have purposefully left the names and locations of Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭhs mentioned in this booklet, first printed during Śrīla Prabhupāda's manifested pastimes, unchanged—without substituting them with the names and locations of any contemporary Missions, originating from Śrī Caitanya Maṭh. Let the faithful reader decide for himself where is Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh nowadays, taking guidance from the characteristics; given in this holy booklet. Signboards may not direct one to Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh. Praying for the grace of Śrī Śrī Gaura-Nityānanda to be saved from fault-finding propensities, we should look on words and deeds, and even deeper, examine intentions, to discover where is Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh—the Home of our Gurus. One truth gives hope to our search—that the aim and methods of Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh have not changed and nor will they ever.”

(From the book “What Gaudiya Math is doing?”, written by Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda—Paramahaṁsa Jagad-Guru. First published by Viśva-vaiṣṇava Rāja-sabhā in the 1930's)

“Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh cannot have and actually does not have anything in common with those, who duplicitously join Gauḍīya Maṭh with a motive to misuse Divine Knowledge for the service of their own selfish ends. Feigned Dīkṣā and obtainment of Divine Knowledge are never one and the same. Śri Caitanya and His sincere Devotees are eternally present in Śri Gauḍīya Maṭh. All those owlish persons who are incapable of seeing the light are called māyāvādīs, karmmīs and wayward nondevotees."

(From the letter by Śrila Prabhupād Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī - October 20, 1928)

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