What Gaudiya Math is doing? (Part 2)

Written by Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda - Paramahaṁsa Jagad-Guru

First published by VISHWA-VAISHNAVA-RAJA-SABHA in the 1930's

What Gauḍīya Maṭh is doing

By the grace of the Lord of the Gauḍīyas, the message of the Gauḍīya Maṭh is today not unknown to any one in the whole of Gauḍadeś and not in Gauḍadeś only; but over Naimiṣāraṇya, Ayodhya, Prayāg, Kāśī, Śrī Bṛndāban, and Maṭhurā on one side, and also over Dākṣiṇātya and everywhere throughout the tracts of Orissa on the other, have been well proclaimed the tidings of the Gauḍīya Maṭh, the principal branch of the Śrī Caitanya Maṭh which is the root implanted in the soil of the advent of Śrīman Mahāprabhu,—Śrī Māyāpur Navadvīpa Dhām. Over Gauḍa-maṇḍala, Kṣetra-maṇḍala, and Braja-maṇḍala, the message of the Gauḍīya Maṭh has gone forth.

The truth (satya) is propagated in a two-fold way, viz. —positively, or by the method of direct support, and negatively, or by the method of opposition. The truth cannot be made generally known by the positive method alone. Propaganda by the method of opposition more than the presentation of the positive aspect brings about more brilliantly in this world the appearance and glorification of the truth. In the Satya-yuga, Hiraṇyakaśipu more than Prahlād, by the adoption of the method of negative propa-ganda, proclaimed greatly the glory of Nṛsiṁha-deva. In the Tretā-yuga, Rāvaṇa more than Hanumāna proclaimed the greatness of Śrī Rāmacandra to the world. In Dvāpara, Kaṁsa, Jarāsandha, Śiśupāla and the rest as antagonists proclaimed the greatness of Śrī Kṛṣṇa more than the Pāṇḍava, Jādava and other devotees. In the Kali-yuga,—Jagāi, Mādhāi, Cānd Kājī, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī, the professor of Māyāvāda, Rāmacandra Khān, the hater of Viṣṇu and Vaiṣṇavas, Rāmacandra Purī, and in after times, the various hypocrite sects, more than the Bhaktas of Gaur, have proclaimed the greatness of Gaur and Nityānanda to the world by adopting the hostile method. The truth is in all ages propagated in this way by the positive and negative methods. The true message of the Śrī Gauḍīya Maṭh has spread and is spreading in the world in this manner.

(To be continued...)