The majority of the people of the world, although they profess to be positivists, fail to see, although it must be quite patent, the greatest of all the phenomena. They at any rate forget it in practice even when they appear to know. The greatest of the positivists like Charvaka, although he could not but have observed this greatest of all the phenomena, failed to take notice of it ;—that great phenomenon is generally known by the name of—death. If the memory of this great event is retained in our minds we would as suredly be solicitous for the ‘amrita’ (deathlessness). The sruti says we are all children of the ‘amrita”—heirs of the ‘amrita’ –‘Listen ye, all children of the amrita.’ In this world there are found two kinds of endeavour for obtaining this ‘amrita’. Like unto the sons of kings of the epochs recorded in history some try to ascend the throne of their father by treason against the father ; on the other hand, loyal sons in seeking to be heirs of a kindhearted and affectionate father look upon constant service as being both the means and the end. The Gaudiya Math understands the last-named as being the appropriate and eternal method. Why is it appropriate ? Because—’Sree Krishna, the tidings of Whom whosoever listens to or sings is sanctified, the Benefactor of all holy persons, appearing in the hearts of all who listen to the accounts of Himself destroys the evil propensities of their hearts to the very root’. This seed of sin or sinful desire or ignorance is the cause of the wordly sojourn of the jiva. Why is the method eternal? Because— ‘In the beginning the ‘Munis’ ‘sages’ worshipped the Adhokshaja Bhagabana (the transcendental God in His plenitude) in this way’.That type of kindness which does not give rise to ‘evil’ is termed. As for example if a sick man is allowed to eat tamarind or a drunkard is helped to proceed to a liquor shop kindness is indeed shown, but in the sequel it turns out to be productive of harm to the person who is the recipient of kindness. If the sick man is placed under medical treat, ment against his will and inclination, if the drunkard is protected from his evil course, non-harm-producing kindness’ is shown. Preventing floods and famines, nursing the sick, pleasing or displeasing anybody, or stultifying the faculty of consciousness of any one—every one of these is an instance of harm producing kindness’. Man can not understand it till he realises his true position. By such acts the jiva is not really benefited. Cutting the root of misery is doing real good to others ; the treatment that allows the gangrene of sensual desires to remain does no real good to the patient,—neither is it a proof of great wisdom out of spite to the gangrene of sensual desires to hang the sick-man holding out the prospect of annihilation as complete and permanent cure.”Just as the best physician, even if the patient evinces a desire for unwholesome food, does not allow it ; in like manner he who is himself aware of `the highest good´ never advises an ignorant person to do work for his own interest.”
(From The Harmonist VOL XXV – Gaudiya Math: ist message and activities