One year after Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur left this material world, one group of so-called devotees came in front of Srila Prabhupada and they started speaking that—“ Oh! you never allow us to do such Lila- kirtans by the group from Shantipur, but Srila Sacidananda Bhaktivinod always used to allow us such Lila-kirtans. Then Srila Prabhupada started giving answer to them with laughing mood in the following way that—“ You have never seen Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, that is why you all are passing this kind of remark. Now only one year just over and in the meantime already so much confusion and misunderstanding arising about the teachings of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur. Srila Prabhupada said to them that–” actually Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur never used to allow them to do that kind of Sahajiaya kirtan but be sure some secret motive was there behind this kind of external permission.” If we go into the life of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur we can see how strict he was about Gaudiya Siddhanta Vicar, but at the same time he was clever enough to arrange kripa for those aversive people indirectly, so externally he used to arrange Lila kirtan to attract common masse. But he himself never used to hear that kind of Sahajiya Lila Kirtan. People when they used to come to attend that kind of Sahajiya Lila Kirtan then automatically they used to see Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur (the great devotee) doing Harinam in a very absorbing mood (as if lost somewhere else) with closing his eyes. Not even a single word of that kind of Sahajiya Kirtan could get entry into the aprakrita sravan indria (ear) of Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, because always and every time he was found bussy in nitya seva. So we should not pass any kind of such unusual remark about such a great devotee like Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur. Only to bestow causeless kripa on those bondage souls, by giving them his aprakrita darshan he used to do that kind of unusual lila of arranging sahajiya lila kirtan.
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