Re: The Secret of Lord Shiva

Dear Swamiji and all devotees,

     Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna! Please accept my respectful obeisances!

     There are verses about the Vaisnava sampradayas in the Puranas which are claimed by many parties to be extrapolated and not actually found in the copies of the Puranas available today. But these verses have been quoted from their respective Puranas by acaryas as early as Madhvacharya and Ramanujacharya over 800 years ago.

      There are many parts of the Mahabharata manuscripts which have been found scattered all over India, each having some chapters not found in the others, or having some differences from the other versions of the manuscript. As a matter of fact since the start of the Kali Yuga nearly all available old manuscripts are found in bits and pieces as the Vedic knowledge became further and further divided into further and further departments all over the world due to people's inability to learn the whole Veda. As a result, coherence is a major issue these days and simply scholarship is not going to be enough to accept some rare quotes in scripture. We have to trust our acaryas. There is no other way.

      Jiva Gosvami writes in his Sandarbhas that there were originally 1100 branches of Veda of which only 20 are available today, so it appears that a huge amount of Vedic knowledge has been lost over time.

       There was and still is a raging controversy as to the evidences of Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga in the scriptures with various antagonistic parties claiming that its made up. But actually that's all ignorance and it is because of lack of trust in the Vaisnava acaryas despite knowing their divine and transcendental character.  The Brahma samhita itself is something unique to our Sampradaya which was given by the mercy of Lord Caitanya on his South India tour. However the rest of the world has absolutely no knowledge of this scripture and there are debates going on to establish its validity which are simply a big waste of time.

       On one hand it may be accepted by many that Mahaprabhu is the Supreme Lord, but still its all too easy to encounter the argument, "Ok. Mahaprabhu is the Lord. He said these things ..... But still where is this mentioned in the scriptures? We have not heard of Brahma samhita, etc..... We want solid evidence."  What are they talking about? What kind of faith in the Lord and Vaisnava is this? When evidence is asked it is given, but when its given it is called fake. Its atheist in reality.

       In conclusion one should place one's trust in the bonafide Vaisnava acaryas, devotees and the words of the Supreme Lord, rather then trust the mental fancies and the half-baked materialistic knowledge of the imperfect academicans, scholars, historians, theorists and all other so called experts who are held in great esteem by the material world, but whose spiritual realisation is completely nil.

Daaso'smi,

Srinath

Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krishna!

     

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