does not manufacture / concoct

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This is injunction. This is also injunction of Krsna. What Krsna said, Caitanya Mahaprabhu said the same thing. The difference is that Krsna commanded as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu-He's also Krsna-He's teaching as a devotee of Krsna. That is the difference. The same thing. Krsna said that sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg 18.66], and Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, yare dekha tare kaha krsna-upadesa [Cc Madhya 7.128]. He never said that "Whatever I am saying, you say." No, this is not parampara system. A guru or a preacher or an acarya does not manufacture anything concocted. He says the same thing. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduḥ [Bg 4.2]. That is the difference between acarya and a bogus man. A bogus man says something that "Now I say like this." No, who are you? No. Evam parampara-praptam, Krsna says. We have to accept that. So, therefore Rsabhadeva says that mahat-sevam dvaram ahur vimukteḥ [SB 5.5.2]. If you want to be free from this entanglement, then mahat-seva. Who is mahat, mahat-seva? That is also stated in the sastra: (More...)

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