Srimad Bhagavatam contains the Sruti , Smriti , Tantra, and Purana.
Srila Goswami has accepted this authority as bone fide epistemology and anything outside of those as not necessarily transparent truth , but rather at most , somewhat speculative that may or may not bring a person closer to understanding absolute truth . The truth is spoken directly in the Bhagavad Gita by Lord Kṛṣṇa personally , and subsequently in the Srimad Bhagavatam about Him by His realised devotees and the Caitanya Caritamrta , Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu, who is Krishna Himself elaborated on further more confidential truths and greatly extended the access to realising them . The Caitanya Caratamrita is regarded as the postgraduate study of the other two , the Gita and Bhagavatam.
Anything calculated independently about the reality of spiritual and material truth utilising the senses or the mental and intellectual capabilities will be tainted with material limited calculations , and it will forever fall within the conditioned modes of material nature , those of passion, goodness, and ignorance , trancendental life is beyond , it is situated in Suddha Sattva, pure transcendence .
Trancendental topics are described as pure Subdha brahman , pure sound vibration. Knowledge in suddha sattva or pure goodness that is untainted by lust , anger , greed , envy , and illusions or attachments pertaining to the body , mind , senses or intelligence. This trancendental sound originates from Divinity Himself , and His pure representatives having accepted such sound can also vibrate pure unalloyed sounds . Both Sadhu sanga , association of pure devotees, and Sastra sanga , accessibility of pure scriptures , are available to the sincere seeker of truth , both of these two are essential and work co jointly.
Such vibrations or writings are empowered by Divinity and are of the same spiritual nature as the absolute truth .The characteristics of the representatives of pure sounds are significant , This vese indicates them .
The symptoms of a sādhu are that he is tolerant, merciful and friendly to all living entities. He has no enemies, he is peaceful, he abides by the scriptures, and all his characteristics are sublime.
Divinity can always be attributed to the teachings of the recognitiond Sadhus and Guru’s and is also within the recognitiond Sastras . Both of the Sruti and the Smriti that is contained within the Bramha Gaudia sampradaya . Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur had begun to present these topics to the Western audience’s. His son Srila Bhaktisiddanta Sarasvati Goswami Maharaja, the spiritual master of Srila AC Bhaktivedanta Swami, took matters much further within India , and also sent representatives to London . Srila A.C.Bhavtivedanta Swami has taken all these matters incalculably further , in terms of their being made available to Western audiences all over the world . He has made all our acaryas teachings accessible and understandable to a worldwide audience in very unique and empowered ways . The international society for Krishna consciousness has brought the Vedas to the whole world, and increasingly so . Other Gaudia Vaisnava organisations have also developed to teach in the Western world since ISKCON was formed, and in India many Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas have always existed since Mahaprabhu’s appearance.
ISKCON is sometimes accused of mission drift ..
If the peripherals within the Gaudia Vaisnava greater Vedic connections becomes ISKCON’S cor that would go against the teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahāprabhu , following His conversation with Ramananda Roy . At the same time is the conclusions of Mahāprabhus conversation are enacted primarily, and the peripherals discarded that would equally go against Mahāprabhu’s conversations.
The spiritually infused and mature ecclesiastical scholars within ISKCON have to strike the right balances allowing the natural flow from the peripherals to the cor , avoiding the dangers of the peripherals to become the predominant cor of the organisation . Overly identifying with Western modern Hinduism , or the neo libertine populist of the many shallow yoga organisations, each of those are very firmly situated within the peripherals with little inklings of the Gaudia Vaisnava cor is mission drift ..
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