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devoid of all sense of false prestige, and should be ready to offer all respect to others.
In such a state of mind one can chant the holy name of the Lord constantly.”
Nevertheless, when the Lord was informed that Nityananda Prabhu was injured by
Jagai and Madhai, He immediately went to the spot, angry like fire, wanting to kill
them. Thus Lord Caitanya has explained His verse by the example of His own be-
havior. One should tolerate insults against oneself, but when there is blasphemy com-
mitted against superiors such as other Vaisnavas, one should be neither humble nor
meek; one must take proper steps to counteract such blasphemy. This is the duty
of a servant of a guru and Vaisnavas. Anyone who understands the principle of eter-
nal servitude to the guru and Vaignavas will appreciate the action of Sri Jiva Gosvami
in connection with the so-called scholar’s victory over his gurus, Srila Rupa and
Srila Sanatana Gosvami. ;

Another story fabricated to defame Srila Jiva Gosvam/i states that after compiling
$ri Caitanya-caritameta, Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami showed the manuscript to
Jiva Gosvami, who thought that it would hamper his reputation as a big scholar and
therefore threw it in a well. Srila Krsmadasa Kaviraja Gosvami was greatly shocked,
and he died immediately. Fortunately a copy of the manuscript of Cajtanya-
caritamrta had been kept by a person named Mukunda, and therefore later it was
possible to publish the book. This story is another ignominious example of
blasphemy against a guru and Vaisnava. Such a story should never be accepted as
authoritative.

According to another accusation, Srila Jiva Gosvami did not approve of the
principles of the parakiya-rasa of Vrajadhama and therefore supported svakiya-rasa,
showing that Radha and Krsna are eternally married. Actually, when Jiva Gosvami
was alive, some of his followers disliked the pdrakiya-rasa of the gopis. Therefore
Srila Jiva Gosvami, for their spiritual benefit, supported svakiya-rasa, for he could
understand that sahajiyds would otherwise exploit the pdrakiya-rasa, as they are
actually doing at the present. Unfortunately, in Vrndavana and Navadvipa it has be-
come fashionable among sahajiyds, in their debauchery, to find an unmarried sexual
partner to live with to execute devotional service in parakiya-rasa. Foreseeing this,
Srila Jiva Gosvami supported svakiya-rasa, and later all the Vaisnava dcdryas also
approved of it. Srila Jiva Gosvami was never opposed to the transcendental
parakiya-rasa, nor has any other Vaisnava disapproved of it. Srila Jiva Gosvami
strictly followed his predecessor gurus and Vaisnavas, Srila Ripa and Sanatana
Gosvami, and Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami accepted him as one of his
instructor gurus.

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TAA Vey “ei aw atfoer |
align for creat Ha SPRtfeeT Ne Hi
malira icchdya sakha bahuta badila
badiyd pascima desa saba acchadila
