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revealed scriptures and confirmed by the spiritual master. Accepting the path of
liberated souls and the association of pure devotees enriches such activities.

Imitation devotees, who wish to advertise themselves as elevated Vaisnavas and
who therefore imitate the previous dcdryas but do not follow them in principle, are
condemned in the words of Srimad-Bhagavatam as stone-hearted. Srila Visvanatha
Cakravartt Thakura has commented on their stone-hearted condition as follows:
bahir asru-pulakayoh sator api yad dhrdayam na vikriyeta tad aS’ma-sdram iti
kanisthddhikarindm “eva asru-pulakadi-mattve ‘pi asma-sdra-hrdayatayda nindaisd.
“Those who shed tears by practice but whose hearts have not changed are to be
known as stone-hearted devotees of the lowest grade. Their imitation crying, induced
by artificial practice, is always condemned.’’ The desired change of heart referred
to above is visible in reluctance to do anything not congenial to the devotional
way. To create such a change of heart, conclusive discussion about Sri Krsna and
His potencies is absolutely necessary. False devotees may think that simply shedding
tears will lead one to the transcendental plane, even if one has not had a factual
change in heart, but such apractice is useless if there is no transcendental realization.
False devotees, lacking the conclusion of transcendental knowledge, think that
artificially shedding tears will deliver them. Similarly, other false devotees think
that studying books of the previous acdryas is unadvisable, like studying dry empiric
philosophies. But Srila Jiva Gosvami, following the previous Gcaryas, has inculcated
the conclusions of the scriptures in the six theses called the Sat-sandarbhas. False
devotees who have very little knowledge of such conclusions fail to achieve pure
devotion for want of zeal in accepting the favorable directions for devotional
service given by self-realized devotees. Such false devotees are like impersonalists,
who also consider devotional service no better than ordinary fruitive actions.

TEXT 118

Coee- Rea otis ao Ha fAEICS |
FOS EH asl enicst Teaser CECT SS

caitanya-mahima jani e saba siddhante
citta drdha haha lage mahima-jnana haite

SYNONYMS
caitanya-mahima—the glory of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu; j@ni—|l know; e—
these; saba—all; siddhante—by the conclusions; citta—the mind; drdha—firm; hafia—
becoming; /dge—becomes fixed; mahima-jfiana—knowledge of the greatness; haite—
from.

TRANSLATION

By such conclusive studies | know the glories of Lord Caitanya. Only by knowing
these glories can one become strong and fixed in attachment to Him.
