Great Personalities Outside Bonafide Sampradaya
Posted on March 20, 2010
Filed under BVKS Sanga
From: Internet: “Vijay Rana”
Date: 18-Mar-10 23:06 -0700
For: BVKS Sanga
Subject: Great personalities outside bona fide sampradayas
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Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances unto you.
Hare Krishna.
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I read or hear Srila Prabhupada extensively quoting Chanakya Pandit and
sometimes Tulasi das, and Jesus Christ.
He also appreciates Socratis, Jesus Christ, Tukaram, Mirabai?and many others
who are not from bonafide sampradaya.
But is it only occasionally to teach some particular point or he wants us to
learn, study, and?regulaly read?their teachings at length?? Like Chanakya
niti shastra, Jesus’ Bible, Socratis’?philosophy, Tukaram’s bhajans,?etc.
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If it is so then should?we?include other?local devotees or great
personalities whose philosophy or writings to some extent matching with
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s teachings?
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Then someone will add Narasinh Mehta (Gujarat), Nabhadas (Rajasthan), Namdev
(Maharashtra), Guruvani (Sikhs), Ramananda Swami, Kabir?and others.
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They are welknown and may be pure devotees?but not from bonafide sampradaya.
I ask this question because many ISKCON devotees profusely quote Goswami
Tulasidas as if propagating Tulasidas’ sampradaya. Then?we disregard our
own?fundamental basic privilege of being in bonafide sampradaya.
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As for propagating at least should we not stick to Sri Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu’s teachings which encompass teachings of?all bonafide
sampradayas? Is it not self illuminating? Does it need help of others
(non-bonafide). How a lamp can help to see a Sun? Or do we need to add
something which is lacking in Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s teachings?
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Please enlighten me in this regard by acharya’s opinion.
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Your servant,
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Vijay krishna das.
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