Gauḍīya Goṣṭhī Pati Śrī Śrīla Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda told that — “Bhagavat-kṛpā cannot come directly to us. Bhagavat–kṛpā coming through tat-śakti, tat-prakasha etc.”
Who is really following Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu in toto and who not, how to detect it? Many telling that – “I am following Mahāprabhu”. But as we know that all what glitter is not gold. That is why specially we need an approval of Śrīla Svarup Gosāi who is the overall in charge of the whole Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sampradāya, without which our authenticity cannot be accepted by Śrīman Mahāprabhu.
For Gauḍīya devotees it matters little, if the whole world according to their own estimation can give vote to somebody to proclaim that— “You are Jagad Guru, you are paramahaṁsa-ācāryavarya etc. etc.” But what it concerns to those who are following Śrīla Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda, because nobody can make fool of them. Without the approval of Śrīla Prabhupāda (that means without the approval of Svarup Gosāi) we cannot accept anybody as authentic ācārya (or devotee).
For example, if we want to estimate the valuation of gold, then the first thing what we need to do, is to approach an expert goldsmith, who can test the quality of the gold to speak to us the valuation of the gold. There are different procedures. One of them is to rub the gold with some special stone, and by that way the goldsmith can find out how much carat that gold is. In the same way all our siddhanta-vichars, all our etiquette, all our activities, everything should be approved by Svarup Gosāi, then and only then Śrīla Prabhupāda can approve.
It is of utmost importance to follow the yardstick set by Śrīman Mahāprabhu. Śrīman Mahāprabhu Himself wanted to indicate us that Śrīla Svarup Gosāi is the overall in charge of the whole Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava society. Because at the time of Guṇḍicā-mandira-marjan-līlā when one very simple-hearted devotee from Gauda (Bengal) wanted to wash the Lotus Feet of Śrīman Mahprabhu inside Guṇḍicā-mandira and started doing so, at that time Mahāprabhu was showing some angry līlā, because He wanted to show us that inside the temple nobody should wash the Lotus feet of anybody. Actually, in that case that devotee was not wrong, because Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya Mahāprabhu is Jagannātha Himself. But still to establish Vaiṣṇava siddhanta-vichar Mahāprabhu was bound to express that kind of angry līlā and started calling Svarup Gosāi to point out the fact to him, so that Svarup Gosāi can chastise the Gauḍīya devotee. He told— “Oh Svarup! Your Gauḍīya doing like this way, which is completely prohibited”. By these words we can come to know that Mahāprabhu wanted to give indication that Svarup Gosāi is the overall in charge of the whole Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava society. Again, this was the rule set by Śrīman Mahāprabhu that any writing or any poetry or any novel or any siddhanta-vichar (written by anybody) everything must be approved by Svarup Gosāi first, and only after that Mahāprabhu can consider.
If we look back into the past history then we can find that this has all along been the usual practice of some scrupulous writers who just want to represent their own writings in the name of some Mahajan like Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura Mahashaya, Śrīla Badu Chandi das, Śrīla Vidyapati, Locan das Ṭhākura, Bilvamangal Ṭhākura etc etc. And in this way, they are making fool of innocent people those who have no idea about actual siddhanta-vichar. Only those elevated devotees, those who are the actual followers of Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Ṭhākura, only they can detect it. But those who have no idea about perfect siddhanta-vichar they cannot understand what is right or wrong. If they are going to follow a fallen soul as their Idealism (guru), then what kind of improvement they can expect in their bhajan life. At present in this Kali Kal Māyādevi is making different kind of plans and programs to divert us from the original track of devotion. What to do! Only we can try our best to project the absolute facts and figures.
Gaura Hari Hari Bol