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Conversations on Madhavendra Puri
Question: Are you sure about the article, The Pontifical
Position of Sri Madhavendra Puri. It was my understanding
that Srimad Ananda Tirtha did in fact write his Bhagavad-
Gita commentary *before* having darshan of Sri Vedavyasa.
He then submitted this for the latter’s approval. As I
understand it, Srila Vyasa only had one comment about the text - something
regarding the way Madhva began his commentary or ended it as my poor
memory seems to recall. But the point here is that it indicates that Madhva
began writing his Tattvavada commentaries *before* meeting with his
claimed siksha guru. This calls into question then his exact relationship with
Sri Vyasa. (H. Krishna Susarla)
Narasingha Maharaja: Yes, I am sure of the matter but in my case the "sure" is
a "heart thing" in that it relies more on the dictation of my sraddha than on
my ability to reconstruct the chronology. However, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta
Saraswati Thakur, our param-guru was the editor of The Harmonist when the
article by Srila Sridhardeva Goswami was published. I think that I am safe to
assume that the article met with his approval, otherwise it would not have
been published. If there had been a mistake then we would have seen a
retraction in the next issue. (I have the originals of the Harmonist from 1925
thru 1936, of course a few are missing.)
That it is sraddha that guides me in this regard must of course take me to a
substantial plane also. Sraddha after all is a spiritual substance not an abstract
conception.
Srila Saraswati Thakur had come to this world with a message. In the opinion
of his disciples and followers he was a nitya-siddha, a liberated soul (Nayanamani
Manjari). An essential message in the preaching mission of Saraswati
Thakur was that until one accepts the asraya-tattva, the shelter of the
Supreme Lords agent, his advancement in Krishna consciousness does not
begin.
The first principle of the 64 angas of sadhana-bhakti given in Bhakti-rasamrta-