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the material conditioning is blasphemous and should
be immediately rejected. The reason Brahma das and
many others cannot accept certain shastric statements
Srila Prabhupada has made is because they are under the
influence of their own material conditioning. Therefore,
they have opinions that differ from the pure devotee Srila
Prabhupada and shastra.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura writes, “The answers given
by the spirit (person who is dis-attached) for the previous
mentioned three types of questions are essentially of two
types viz., characteristic answer and multifarious answer.
A doubt may arise in this regard that, when the individual
spirits are universally homogenous principle why they will
provide various diverse answers to the same questions?
The cause of this controversy is explained as follows: -
The unalloyed spirit is a purely transcendental principle.
When they remain in their characteristic nature, all of
them will provide the same answer to a given question.”
Who has not remained in their characteristic nature, Srila
Prabhupada or Brahma das?

Srila Prabhupada has written, “A person who is liberated
acharya and guru cannot commit any mistake, but there
are persons who are less qualified or not liberated, but
still can act as guru and acharya by strictly following the
disciplic succession. It is the injunction of the shastras that

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