ISrîla Bhaktivinoda Thåkura
has said, “My dear mind, what have you done? Being in a
very immature stage you have cheated yourself unknowingly
by perpetrating the fault of narrow-mindedness upon the
pure Vaismava sampradåya. You have supposed the pure
conceptions and validity of the sampradåya to be hypocrisy
and thus abandoned them. You have given up wearing the
Vaisnava tilaka markings and neck beads (tulasî-målå) and
put aside your chanting beads (bhajana-målå). You think,
‘What is the use of wearing tilaka? I can chant within my
mind, so what need is there of beads? One’s diet has nothing
to do at all with bhajana. So don’t think that you have
to give up eating meat, fish or eggs. Don’t think that you
must stop drinking wine or tea and taking intoxicants such
as påna, tobacco, marijuana, hemp or opium.’ You have cast
aside the need for taking initiation (dîkßå). You have begun
to refer to yourself as an incarnation. You have begun to
propagate your new theories very powerfully through different
agents. You are criticising the opinions of the previous
great personalities (mahåjanas) and åcåryas of the path
of bhakti, considering them to be mistaken. Some cunning
persons put on tilaka and tulasî-målå and cheat others.
Therefore you avoid the association of anyone who wears
tilaka and målå, considering them all to be cheaters. But, my
dear brother mind, please consider, what have you gained
by this? You have given up gold for ashes. Your present life
and the next have both been utterly ruined. You address
everyone as a hypocrite, knave and cheater. But you have
failed to attain bhagavad-bhakti. What will be your fate at
the time of death?