12.73
ye ye laila sri-acyutanandera mata
sei acaryera gana--maha-bhagavata
SYNONYMS
ye ye—anyone who; laila—accepted; sri-acyutanandera—of Sri Acyutananda; mata—the path; sei—those; acaryera gana—descendants of Advaita Acarya; maha-bhagavata—are all great devotees.
The descendants of Advaita Acarya who accepted the path of Sri Acyutananda were all great devotees.
PURPORT
In this connection, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya, gives this short note: “Sri Advaita Acarya is one of the important trunks of the bhakti-kalpataru, or desire tree of devotional service.
Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, as a gardener, poured water on the root of the bhakti tree and thus nourished all its trunks and branches.
But nevertheless, under the spell of maya, the most unfortunate condition of a living entity, some of the branches, not accepting the gardener who poured water on them, considered the trunk the only cause of the great bhakti-kalpataru.
In other words, the branches or descendants of Advaita Acarya who considered Advaita Acarya the original cause of the devotional creeper, and who thus neglected or disobeyed the instructions of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, deprived themselves of the effect of being watered and thus dried up and died.
It is further to be understood that not only the misguided descendants of Advaita Acarya but anyone who has no connection with Caitanya Mahaprabhu-even if he is independently a great sannyasi, learned scholar or ascetic-is like a dead branch of a tree.” This analysis by Sri Bhaktivinoda Thakura, supporting the statements of Sri Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, depicts the position of the present so-called Hindu religion, which, being predominantly conducted by the Mayavada philosophy, has become a hodgepodge institution of various concocted ideas.
Mayavadis greatly fear the Krsna consciousness movement and accuse it of spoiling the Hindu religion because it accepts people from all parts of the world and all religious sects and scientifically engages them in the daiva-varnasrama-dharma.
As we have explained several times, however, we find no such word as “Hindu” in the Vedic literature.
The word most probably came from Afghanistan, a predominantly Muslim country, and originally referred to a pass in Afghanistan known as Hindukush that is still a part of a trade route between India and various Muslim countries.
The actual Vedic system of religion is called varnasrama-dharma, as confirmed in the Visnu Purana:
varnasramacaravata
purusena parah puman
visnur aradhyate pantha
nanyat tat-tosa-karanam (Visnu Purana 3.8.9) The Vedic literature recommends that a human being follow the principles of varnasrama-dharma.
Accepting the process of varnasrama-dharma will make a person’s life successful because this will connect him with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the goal of human life.
Therefore the Krsna consciousness movement is meant for all of humanity.
Although human society has different sections or subdivisions, all human beings belong to one species, and therefore we accept that they all have the ability to understand their constitutional position in connection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu.
Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu confirms, jivera ’svarupa’ haya--krsnera nitya-dasa: “Every living entity is an eternal part, an eternal servant, of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” Every living entity who attains the human form of life can understand the importance of his position and thus become eligible to become a devotee of Lord Krsna.
We take it for granted, therefore, that all humanity should be educated in Krsna consciousness.
Indeed, in all parts of the world, in every country where we preach the sankirtana movement, we find that people very easily accept the Hare Krsna maha-mantra without hesitation.
The visible effect of this chanting is that the members of the Hare Krsna movement, regardless of their backgrounds, all give up the four principles of sinful life and come to an elevated standard of devotion.
Although posing as great scholars, ascetics, householders and svamis, the so-called followers of the Hindu religion are all useless, dried-up branches of the Vedic religion.
They are impotent; they cannot do anything to spread the Vedic culture for the benefit of human society.
The essence of the Vedic culture is the message of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Lord Caitanya instructed:
yare dekha, tare kaha ’krsna’ upadesa
amara ajnaya guru hana tara’ ei desa (Cc.Madhya 7.128) One should simply instruct everyone he meets regarding the principles of krsna-katha, as expressed in Bhagavad-gita As It Is and Srimad-Bhagavatam.
One who has no interest in krsna-katha or the cult of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is like dry, useless wood with no living force.
The ISKCON branch, being directly watered by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, is becoming undoubtedly successful, whereas the disconnected branches of the so-called Hindu religion that are envious of ISKCON are drying up and dying.