If we are in confusion to recognize pure Guru-Vaishnava then this is a great offense, so we should remember this point very carefully. Sometimes we can find some extraordinary Qualities in some ordinary man, that is called pratibha. But pratibha is surely not bhakti. We must be very careful about this point. Because sometimes we are in confusion by watching some special Quality in somebody– like oratorship or speaking power or writing power or speculative power or technical power etc. We can see the example of Dig Vijayi Pandit. Surely he was enjoying full kripa of material Sarasvati, but in front of Sriman Mahprabhu he was just puzzled. Why? Because aprakrita Sarasvati is the vidya shakti of the Supreme Lord who is there always with her Lord. So how it is possible for Dig Vijayi Pandit to establish his own vidya Shakti in front of Sriman Mahaprabhu?
Sometimes we see that some of our Guruvarga maybe they have not sufficient material education, but surely they are realized souls, but still sometimes we can see they are going to take some help from some material pratibha ban genius. Why? Because simply they want to utilize the special Quality for the cause of Guru and Gauranga seva. This is their causeless mercy upon them. We should remember that bhakti is the natural function of our soul, and aprakrita divya jnana can be found always there with Sadhu –Guru- Vaishnava. But material knowledge or capacity (some special pratibha) anyway can not stay for long with bonded souls. So anyway if Guruvarga somehow can utilize that particular pratibha of any jivattma for the cause of aprakrita seva, then what’s wrong in it? In that case we should not have this kind of miss conception that the pratibha ban genius is more important then Guru Vaishnava. Even those Yogis and Jnanis– somehow they must take help of Bhakti Devi to get success in their line of Bhajan, otherwise they can never come out successful, that is the excellent and unique divine glories of Bhakti Devi.
Gaura Hari Haribol