An Authentic Life 1.1 for pdf - Universalist Radha-Krishnaism

you've come all by yourself prepared to stay, I'll tell
you what you want to know. I wanted to tell these
things to your guru maharaj, but he didn't want to
hear them. Even my brother didn't know these things.
Our father never taught him.
"Before you can know your relationship with
Radha-Krishna, you have to know your disciplic succession.
The line that your guru maharaj listed in his
Bhagavad Gita was made up by my brother Bhaktisiddhanta.
He was rejected by our father, Srila Bhaktivinode
Thakur, and his guru, who was Bipin Bihari
Goswami. Bhakti-siddhanta spoke against Bipin Bihari
from the stage of a large public gathering in Calcutta.
He called him a caste goswami and a sahajiya.
"When our father heard about this, he said,
'You should keep out of religious affairs. It would be
better if you went and lived in Mayapur alone. Chant
Hare Krishna and pray for Lord Chaitanya's mercy.'
"But, when our father Bhaktivinode Thakur
died, I went to my brother and said, 'Who will carry
on our father's teachings now that he is gone? You are
the oldest.' I was working for the government like our
father did, while he was doing his spiritual practices
and was a scholar. 'You're the one to do it,' I told him.
'How can I do it when I've been rejected by our
father and his guru?' was his reply.
"'You're smart. Make up a disciplic succession.
Who will know?' He did it. When he went to Vrinda-
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