Suddha Bhaktas Do Not Like Idle Talks
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Paramhamsa Vani
Oct 24, 2025, 12:00:58 AM (13 days ago) Oct 24
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Sree Sree Guru Gaurangau Jayatah!
After the disappearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His personal associates as well as the prominent vaisnava acaryas like Narottam Thakur, Shyamananda Prabhu and Srinivas Acharya, darkness descended on the horizon of suddha bhakti and many pseudo sects cropped up. The renowned saint Totaram Das Babaji Maharaj mentioned thirteen pseudo sects-'aula, baula, karttabhaja, neda, daravesa, sani, sahajiya, sakhibheki, smarta, jata-gosayi, ativadi, cudadhari, gauranga-nagari, tota kahe ei tera sanga nahi kori'. Our Most Revered Gurudev occasionally warned us by saying that the sincere aspirants should be careful to avoid the association of such pseudo sects. Each of the pseudo sects try to establish that they are preaching Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's teachings, but actually they are defaming, disrespecting and tarnishing the teachings of Sri Chaitanya Maharabhu.
A novice or a beginner may be cheated, so our guruvarga refuted their contentions with strong words so that the sincere souls are not misled and deprived of getting the actual spiritual devotional benefit. But at the same time, they gave a warning to us: don't attack the persons who are preaching pseudo sects out of personal grudge. We are not to attack any person in this world as he is from Krishna, by Krishna and in Krishna. Sadhus have got no personal grudge to anybody in this world, but for the eternal benefit of all, they refute the anti-devotional contentions, only to save the sincere souls from being misled. If we attack those proponents with a hostile mentality, their bad qualities will come to us and we will have a spiritual fall. Even if those proponents come to the sadus, the sadhus pay respect to them and serve them with prasad because they have got no personal grudge against these people. If they sincerely want to hear pure devotional conclusive thoughts, sadhus speak to them mildly, establish devotional thoughts and show defects of anti-devotional thoughts. But they remain silent when they find the person has come not to hear sincerely, but to show pedantic fits. Suddha bhaktas do not like idle talks. They have no desire to speak unnecessarily because they want to engage themselves fully for the service of God and His devotees. They know that at any moment they may leave this most perishable world. They are completely disinterested in non-eternal worldly affairs. Real aspirants utilize their time for their actual benefit-they find no time to find faults and criticize others.
--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
After the disappearance of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His personal associates as well as the prominent vaisnava acaryas like Narottam Thakur, Shyamananda Prabhu and Srinivas Acharya, darkness descended on the horizon of suddha bhakti and many pseudo sects cropped up. The renowned saint Totaram Das Babaji Maharaj mentioned thirteen pseudo sects-'aula, baula, karttabhaja, neda, daravesa, sani, sahajiya, sakhibheki, smarta, jata-gosayi, ativadi, cudadhari, gauranga-nagari, tota kahe ei tera sanga nahi kori'. Our Most Revered Gurudev occasionally warned us by saying that the sincere aspirants should be careful to avoid the association of such pseudo sects. Each of the pseudo sects try to establish that they are preaching Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's teachings, but actually they are defaming, disrespecting and tarnishing the teachings of Sri Chaitanya Maharabhu.
A novice or a beginner may be cheated, so our guruvarga refuted their contentions with strong words so that the sincere souls are not misled and deprived of getting the actual spiritual devotional benefit. But at the same time, they gave a warning to us: don't attack the persons who are preaching pseudo sects out of personal grudge. We are not to attack any person in this world as he is from Krishna, by Krishna and in Krishna. Sadhus have got no personal grudge to anybody in this world, but for the eternal benefit of all, they refute the anti-devotional contentions, only to save the sincere souls from being misled. If we attack those proponents with a hostile mentality, their bad qualities will come to us and we will have a spiritual fall. Even if those proponents come to the sadus, the sadhus pay respect to them and serve them with prasad because they have got no personal grudge against these people. If they sincerely want to hear pure devotional conclusive thoughts, sadhus speak to them mildly, establish devotional thoughts and show defects of anti-devotional thoughts. But they remain silent when they find the person has come not to hear sincerely, but to show pedantic fits. Suddha bhaktas do not like idle talks. They have no desire to speak unnecessarily because they want to engage themselves fully for the service of God and His devotees. They know that at any moment they may leave this most perishable world. They are completely disinterested in non-eternal worldly affairs. Real aspirants utilize their time for their actual benefit-they find no time to find faults and criticize others.
--- Jagad-guru His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Ballabh Tirtha Goswami Maharaj
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