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<div class="heading">At the present moment, it has become a fashion to manufacture some idea. But that is not the Vedic way. Vedic way is to receive the message through paramparā system.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 27, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī wanted to please Sanātana Gosvāmī. Our duty is to please the superior, not the public. We are giving service to the public according to the direction of the superior authority. We do not manufacture any program of service. That is not our business. Whatever is ordered by the . . . just like Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Caitanya Mahāprabhu, He's Kṛṣṇa Himself.

Still, He was following the authorities. Śrī Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality, He was also referring to the ''Brahmā-sūtra'': ''brahma-sūtra-padaiś caiva viniścitam.'' So this is the way, that any bona fide spiritual propaganda must be following the footsteps of previous authority.

At the present moment, it has become a fashion to manufacture some idea. But that is not the Vedic way. Vedic way is to receive the message through ''paramparā'' system. ''Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayoḥ viduḥ'' ([[Vanisource:BG 4.2 (1972)|BG 4.2]]). Not to deviate the ''paramparā''. So Sanātana Gosvāmī was taught by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continually for two months personally in Benares, Vārāṇasī. Therefore he's our authority.

The ''Hari-bhakti-vilāsa'', the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sampradāya, they follow the principles of ''Hari-bhakti-vilāsa''. In that ''Hari-bhakti-vilāsa'' Sanātana Gosvāmī recommends, ''tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena dvijatvaṁ jāyate nṛṇām'' (''Hari-bhakti-vilāsa'' 2.12). ''Dīkṣā-vidhāna'', by the process of ''dīkṣā'', a . . . any human being can be elevated to the position of a bona fide ''brāhmin''.

''Vidhānena''. ''Vidhāna''. The very word is used, ''vidhāna''. ''Vidhāna'' means bona fide process. ''Tathā dīkṣā-vidhānena''. There is another good suggestion: ''yathā kañcanatāṁ yāti kaṁsa-rasa-vidhānena'' ([[Vanisource:CC Adi 7.47|CC Adi 7.47, purport]]). ''Rasa. Rasa'' means  . . . another meaning of ''rasa'' means . . . what is that? What is called? I forget.