Srila Sukadev Goswami is
right, Srila Jayadev Goswami is right
In the book called “Prabhupad Saraswati Thakur”
by Mandala Publishing Group wich contains many articles written by Prabhupad,
in the page 117 of the same, Prabhupad wrote:
“The ‘hidden
matters’ can only be known by the special mercy of Sri Krishna and not
otherwise. They are not to be divulged to all persons indiscriminately. This
explanation offered by the Goswamis is
not opposed to the open treatment
of the same subject by Sri Jayadeva and others writers. In spite of the Gita
Govinda and its companion works, the subject of the relationship of Sri Radhika
to Sri Krishna remains shrouded in impenetrable mistery. No language can convey
to the lay reader anything but a misleading idea of the nature of the subject
on wich Sri Sukadev maintained such discrite silence. This result is hailed
with unmistakable joy by Srila Krsna Das Kaviraj Goswami, author of Sri
Chaitanya Charitamrta. Kaviraj Goswami pertinently observes that no joy can excel that of the narrator of
the hidden subject when he realizes that those very persons are wholly and
automatically barred from all knowledge of the subject. They will surely not appreciate the same for fear of whose neblect
the writer is afraid to narrate fully. Sri Sukadev Goswami´s hesitation to
divulge the secrets of the Vedas is well founded. The conduct of Sri jayadev
Goswami in speaking without reserve is equally
in order if we remember that his book cannot be understood at all by those
who are lacking in the highest spiritual culture.
Certain
uncritical writers have even thrown mud at the author of Gita-Govinda; but they
are the exceptions. Generally writers have thought it wise to avoid all
reference to the subject for the honest enough reason that they have failed to understand how a book wich
has a most obscene exterior could be cherished by all the great devotees of the
country, whose conduct is universally admitted to have been free from any taint
of casuality.”
