If insider-insider and insider-outsider communications are different, then won’t those who hear both find them contradictory?

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As nowadays, almost all content is available everywhere, can there be any actual difference between insider insider communication and insider outsider communication? Also, if somebody is an outsider on the way toward becoming an insider, won’t they notice a contradiction between the two forms of communication if they are exposed to both? Answer, yes. But it’s not necessarily a to answer the second question first. Will a person who is who hears inside outside communication, outside insider inside communication, if they see a difference, I don’t think it has to be contradiction.

It’s a matter of progression, and progression depends on the level of the person. So just like the standard example is given with respect to education in math, a child is told that a child studying in maybe primary school may be told that you can’t subtract a smaller number from bigger number. A bigger number from a smaller number. So four minus seven is not possible. But then as a child grows up, then listen.

It’s possible. So if you take it at a more sophisticated level, in physics, people study that the theory of gravity is what works. But as they advance further, they study advanced physics. They will know that, actually, gravity works. It’s not but it’s not universal.

We need other theories when for very large objects moving at very high speeds. We need either the, theory of relativity or for the fundamental particles, atomic particles. We need the theory of quantum physics. So like that, progression involves understanding different things with the different emphasis at different times. And progression is not contradiction necessarily even if it involves contradiction.

The key point is not the contradiction. The key point is a progression toward a higher understanding, and this is very much natural in our tradition. On one side, Srila Prabhupad, for example, Vaishnavas can be so broad that we have Srila Prabhupad saying that there is that Jesus Christ is our guru because he had so much love for for the God that he was ready to die for God, and a person with so much love for God is our guru. And we have Prabhupada’s Goswami as refusing to take in in Vandavan, refusing to take curd when it is served to him in a leaf that is brought from temple at the place. This is that this is because he belongs to Adrani’s group.

So the first is it that Prabhupada is broad minded and is narrow minded? No. There are different context and there are different, expressions of either spiritual wisdom or spiritual emotion that are appropriate to that context. So context appropriateness of education and expression are just natural facts of, living. So they don’t have to be contradictory.

Now as far as both communications being everything being available to everyone, well, that’s true at one level. So we need to be careful in all our speech. But then there are forums when, for example, in in inside the inside the communication, we may want to keep certain things confidential. Many speakers, they may specifically speak certain things only when they have an assurance that some things are not being recorded. This is meant only for the audience.

That’s why the idea of confidential knowledge is there. Esoteric knowledge is there. So we need to focus on the principle of insider insider and insider outsider. The specifics with respect to boundaries for the two will naturally vary. Any conceptual structure when we bring it into real life, it is never so neat and tidy as it is at the conceptual level.

But that does not mean that the concept itself is invalid. It’s just that the conceptual application has to be more nuanced. Thank you, Hare Krishna.