Indian guest, Nairobi, October 28, 1975: Srila Prabhupada, in Back to Godhead, on page five, it is said that Sri Vallabhacaryaji, a devotee to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, wrote commentary on Srimad-Bhagavata, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected his commentary, and then He said that He is not prepared to listen to his commentary, and he gives certain other comments.
Prabhupada: Not certain other comment. The Vallabhacarya, he brought his Subodhini-tika, and he was great admirer of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and he said that “I have written one commentary which is far better than the comments given by Sridhara Svami.”
So that was disapproved by Caitanya Mahaprabhu. If you disapprove previous acarya or if you become more intelligent than previous acarya, then you are not acarya. This is… This was Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s… He disapproved. Our process is evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh [Bg. 4.2]. We cannot disregard. Sridhara is the original commentator of Bhagavata. If you say that “I am better than Sridhara Svami,” then you immediately become rejected. If I say…
Just like there are some people, they create some avatara, and they say, “This avatara is better than Krsna”— immediately rejected. Immediately. He must know his value. This was… Caitanya Mahaprabhu said svami, Sridhara Svami, so he also sarcastically remarked, svami na mane yei jana vesyara bhitare tare kariye ganana. Svami means husband also. So if some woman says that “I don’t care for my husband,” Caitanya Mahaprabhu, “Then he’s a prostitute. She is a prostitute.”
This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu. You cannot disregard svami. Not that… They were very friendly, so you can take it as friendly, jokingly, that, “You are so proud that you are disregarding Sridhara Svami. Then you are no better than prostitute.”
Brahmananda: He says that from the Vedas we know that Krsna is unlimited, especially when He was performing His rasa-lila with the gopis. So if Krsna is unlimited, why did he not…?
Indian guest: …manifest Himself all over the world so that all living entities would have equal chance to go back home?
Brahmananda: Why did He not manifest Himself all over the world so that all living entities could have equal chance…?
Prabhupada: Yes, He manifested all over the world, but you have no eyes to see Him. That is your defect. Krsna is present everywhere. But just like sun is present in the sky. Why don’t you see now? Answer this. Do you think the sun is not in the sky? Do you think that sun is not there?
So go on the roof and see the sun. Why you prove yourself a rascal, that “No, no, there is no sun”? Will it be accepted by learned men? Because you cannot see the sun, there is no sun? Will it be accepted by any learned scholar? At night you cannot see the sun, so if you say to any learned man, any, who knows things, “No, no, there is no sun,” so will he accept that? He will say that “Sun is there.
You rascal, you cannot see.” That’s all. “You just get out of your rascaldom. Then you’ll see.” Naham prakasah sarvasya yoga-maya-samavrtah [Bg. 7.25], Krsna said. He is not exposed to the rascals, but one who knows, he is seeing.
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