INFINITE VARIEGATEDNESS; SOME THOUGHTS...
The spiritual sky is described as infinitely variegated. We are personalists, which means that identity period requires some difference from every other identity. Yes?
NO TWO VAISNAVAS WILL THEREFORE HAVE EXACTLY THE SAME ASPECT OF VISION. SRILA GOUR GOVINDA SWAMI MAHARAJAH, SRILA NARAYANA MAHARAJAH, HDG SRILA BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA, THEREFORE, WILL NOT EXACTLY AGREE ON EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME EITHER. Why would you expect that they would?
The conclusion of pure chanting of hare krsna maha mantra and the pure rasa of devotional service is all the proof needed; that their understandings and minds should be exactly the same is mayavada nonsense !
It takes a total ass to think that pure devotees all say and think exactly the same, and therefore to try to find faults and raise politics. The taste of Krsna rasa will be there, that will be the same.
Of course, major deviations heard from anothers' Guru would suggest a need to disassociate with such and attend more to ones' own Guru's teachings specifically. It is dangerous especially for neophytes to read too extensively, as they will not capture the Guru's mood, but may instead listen to their own mind and pick and choose. Some will then criticize others based upon a naive fanaticism that they use to protect their psychology and devotional creeper, ie accepting rules and regulations without understanding the purposes behind them, but they should grow out of that determined yet actually yet weak stage.
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