All glories to Śrī Śrī Guru-Gaurāṅga
Date 17.05.2025
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has written in his Bhakti Sandharbha the following vichar about false preaching and genuine preaching—
“vaktā saraga niraga divido parikīrtitā”
Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmīpada wrote in the Sandharbas that there are two types of vaktās (speakers), “vaktā saraga niraga divido parikīrtitā” means there are two types of speakers of hari-kathā. One such devotee is “saraga.” He still has some kama, lust, or etc. in his heart but can still speak hari-kathā. The other kind is “niraga.” This personality has no material desires remaining in his heart. The vyāsāsana should only be occupied by a niraga vaktā who has no demand for name, fame, position, money, honor and etc.) we should not allow a saraga vaktā to sit on the vyāsāsana to speak hari-kathā because he is contaminated. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī gave clear instructions that we should not allow a preacher with such mundane desires to sit on the vyāsāsana. Of course those who want to be cheated will be cheated very easily by them.
Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Paramahaṁsa Jagad Guru said that— “At present in the name of hari-bhajana – hari-kathā those who are misguiding the whole world at present it has become a fashion (a traditional practice) to get cheated by them.”
Common people usually have no capacity to detect who is a real preacher (a pure devotee). Still, we must always try to avoid saraga vaktā at all times because they are capable of misguiding the whole world. Since our own hearts are full of duplicity and disingenuousness, we cannot expect to find perfect guidance.
Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda said that— “Preaching can be done both ways, one is positive way and the other is negative way. Positive way of preaching procedure is very very slow, hardly can we get any appropriate suitable candidate who can accept this positive preaching, because Absolute Truth can never enjoy any popularity, but the ultimate result of positive preaching is very absolute. But negative preaching is very very fast, but the result our outcome is very toxic.” He further said that— “More or less we all are contaminated with māyāvad vichar.” Māyāvad means no believe or less believe in guru-Vaisnava-Bhagavān. Those who are completely established in śrauta-panthā surely, they are not cheater preacher, no matter whether they are in gṛhastha life or in renounced order, but those who are not at all established in śrauta-panthā they are surely cheater preacher, no matter whether they are in gṛhastha life or in renounced order. To be frank, at present almost 99% (if not more) preachers are taking the help of duplicity, I mean they don’t like to speak what our guru-varga told exactly, or at all speaking something but not complete, because this is not their target to seek the complete satisfaction of the Supreme, the only target in their life is to collect lābha, pūjā, pratiṣṭhā (kāminī-kancan etc) in the name of preaching. They are just like business men. We know that suppression of fact is a great offence. When jīve doyā the divine principle not getting any priority then such preaching can be called jīva-hiṁsā, so surely, they are cheater preacher. Those so called sannyāsis or ācāryas cannot be counted in the list of those genuine preachers, because they are not at all following The Prabhupāda, actually they are following their own whimsical mind to cheat the whole world.
Gaura Hari Hari Bol