Re: My Video Reply to the Puri Incident Regarding Shrila Prabhupada

Don't break the custom

Most Vaisnavas have heard the story of Ramanujacharya wanting to break that custom, but what was the result of that? Ramanujacharya wanted the worship of Lord Jagannath to be done in the vidhi-marga. There are some rules and regulations in the Vedas, and especially in the Manu-samhita, and he wanted the worship to be done in a bona fide way, following these rules and regulations. He thought the way the Pandas were doing the worship was not the customary way; the mantras they were using were not the right ones, and he wanted that the worship be done in the right way. All the scholars there were defeated by him. The next day, the final meeting was supposed to take place, and the King would have been forced to introduce the Vedic way of worship. While Ramanujacharya was sleeping that night, his bed was thrown three hundred miles away to Kurmmaksetra. In the morning he wondered where he was, and found that it was Kurmmaksetra.

Also Pundarika Vidyanidhi felt the Jagannath Deity's anger.

In Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu�s time there was only one Ratha Yatra and all the Vaisnavas came from all over India for this special festival. Sri Gauranga travelled all over India but he never, ever encouragea anyone to start the cart festival. In fact, some of the great devotees like Srila Hari Das Thakura and Srila Sanatana Goswami avoided disturbing the local brahmanas.



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