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770625 - Letter to Subbaraidu from Tamal Krsna

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June 25th, 1977

From: Tamal Krishna
Sri B.V. Subbaraidu,
Stuart Peta
Pitha Puram

Dear Mr. Subbaraidu,

I have been instructed by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada to reply your letter dated 19th June, 1977.

Sankaracarya is actually an incarnation of Lord Siva. This fact as well as the purpose for his advent in the Kali-yuga is stated in the Padma Purana:

mayavadam asac-chastram pracchannam bauddham ucyate
mayaiva kalpitam devi kalau brahmana-rupina
brahmanas caparam rupam nirgunam vaksyate maya
sarvasvam jagato ‘py asya mohanartham kalau yuge
vedanto tu maha-sastre mayavadam avaidikam
mayaiva vaksyate devi jagatam nasa-karanat

“The Mayavadi philosophy, Lord Siva informed his wife Parvati, is impious (asac-chastra). It is covered Buddhism.My dear Parvati, in the form of a brahmana in Kali-yuga, I teach this imagined Mayavada philosophy. In order to cheat the atheists, I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead to be without form and without qualities. Similarly, in explaining Vedanta I describe the same Mayavada philosophy in order to mislead the entire population toward atheism by denying the personal form of the Lord. (Padma Purana)

dvaparadau yuge bhutva kalaya manasadisu
svaganaih kalpitais tvam ca janan mad-vimukhan kuru

“In Kali-yuga, I mislead the people in general by propounding imaginary meanings for the Vedas to bewilder them.” (Siva Purana)

srnu devi pravaksyami tamasani yathakramam
yesam sravana-matrena patityam jnaninam api
apartham sruti-vakyanam darsayal loka-garhitam
karma-svarupa-tyajyatvam atra ca pratipadyate
sarva-karma-paribhramsan naiskarmyam tatra oocyate
paratma-jivayor aikyam mayatra pratipadyate

“My dear wife, hear my explanation of how I have spread ignorance through Mayavada philosophy. Simply by hearing it even an advanced scholar will fall down. In this philosophy which is certainly very inauspicious for people in general, I have misrepresented the real meaning of the Vedas and recommended that one give up all activities in order to achieve freedom from karma. In this Mayavada philosophy I have described the jivatma and Paramatma to be one and the same.” (Lord Siva, Padma-Purana)

Lord Siva is known as the param Vaisnava. He is the topmost personalist, and so is Sankaracarya, except that he covered himself in order to deceive the atheists in this age. This is the conclusion of the authorized sastras.

Yours sincerely,

Tamal Krsna Gosvami

Secretary to His Divine Grace

A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada