Page 26 - Defending Prabhupada Words - By Harivlas Das

We should ask the question, who is more likely to be
influenced by the material conditioning, Srila Prabhupada
or Brahma das? Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written,
“Since the bonded souls inhabited in this mundane
world of Maya have accepted the phenomenal qualities
of Maya as their own, their real character has been
eclipsed and encovered by the Mayik qualities which has
created a conditioned nature of the jiva-souls. Because
of this conditioned nature obtained from Maya the
transcendental jiva-soul acquires a mixed character and
all its sentient faculties are conducted here under external
conditionings. The faculty of transcendental knowledge
of the jiva-souls gets degraded in to a mixture of sentient
and non-sentient principles due to the association of
inanimate world, and gets converted and presented as
the mind of the jiva-souls. This mixed principle of mind
when influenced by the variegatedness of Maya provides
the answers of the different questions assuming the ego of
the soul, these answers will naturally become conditioned
and multifarious.”

It is said in the Nectar of Instruction, “vaco vegam
….sarvam api mam sa sisyat “Only that person who has
controlled all the senses and mind can travel anywhere
in the world and make disciples.” Srila Prabhupada has
done this, not Brahma das. For Brahma das to make
any statement implying that Srila Prabhupada is under

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