Murari Gupta – Devotion – single-minded and broad-minded

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Hare Krishna on the sacred occasion about Murali Gupta let us meditate on his special place in the Gaudiya Vaishnava Sampradaya among his many distinctive specialities the one which we will focus on is how he was a Rama Bhakta but he was devoted to Shaitanya Mahaprabhu also so sometimes there is this mood of devotional intolerance where we think that because we are devotees of Lord Krishna in Parakiaras and that is the highest so everyone else is to be neglected even trampled down upon but Shaitanya Mahaprabhu demonstrates how an intimate associate can be extremely faithful to his particular deity and still be a integral part of Shaitanya Mahaprabhu’s family of devotees so Murali Gupta is a manifestation of Hanuman and he right from his early days was attracted to Lord Ram that’s natural because Hanuman has an attraction to the Lord his form is Ramachandra and Shaitanya Mahaprabhu when he requested him almost instructed him said that Krishna is manifesting much more sweetness worship Lord Krishna so what did Murali Gupta do he said that next morning he decided that I will commit suicide because he said I cannot, my heart is attracted to Lord Ram and I cannot change that but at the same time I cannot disobey Shaitanya Mahaprabhu what should I do, better end my life and Shaitanya Mahaprabhu went to his place and told him that where have you kept the knife Murali Gupta said what knife he says I know everything in fact I only gave you the knife I am present in your heart and I was present in the heart of the person through whom you got the knife so Shaitanya Mahaprabhu said that rather than becoming dejected because of this Shaitanya Mahaprabhu said this is your glory that you are not ready to give up your worship of the Lord, your Ishtadev no matter what happens and this is the purity and the glory of your devotion so Shaitanya Mahaprabhu did not hurt his feelings in any way but rather acknowledged and glorified those feelings of devotion so same way we also if we have some devotees in our association who have attraction to other forms of the Lord, it’s not that we have to advocate of some sort of narrow minded Krishnaism where we don’t accept Rama worship or worship Vaishna worship, no we accept all of them and Shaitanya Mahaprabhu encouraged, glorified and and praised the worship of Murali, the single mind worship of Murali Gupta at the same time we will also see that Shaitanya Mahaprabhu in his sampradaya, Murali Gupta is not an initiating spiritual master, now Advaita Acharya initiated Nityananda Prabhu initiated, they were Acharyas, Murali Gupta did not become an Acharya, so as far as our preaching is concerned within our sampradaya we will focus on the Gaudiya Siddhanta and we will focus on the sharing of Krishna as the Aradhyate, so Murali Gupta voluntarily chose that, he did not initiate the disciples still he wrote many beautiful books, in fact his karchas his notes about Shaitanya Mahaprabhu’s Bengal pastimes are the basis of the sources from which both Shaitanya Bhagwat and Shaitanya Charitamrith had come, so in this way Murali Gupta through Murali Gupta demonstrates single minded devotion and Shaitanya Mahaprabhu through the example of Murali Gupta demonstrates broad minded devotion, so devotion is both single minded as well as broad minded, so we are single minded as far as our Aradhyate is concerned and when we have other devotees who have slightly other moods, slightly other slightly different objects or focuses of worship, we are broad minded so we, this is actually transcendental subjectivity in the Brihat Bhagwat Amrit also it is described when the Gop Kumar goes to the spiritual world, at that time when he goes to Vaikuntha, the Vaikuntha Vasi consider Vishnu to be the supreme, Vishnu to be the all in all and Sanatana Goswami doesn’t disprove or minimize that we have to recognize this transcendental subjectivity and celebrate the transcendental variety and that is what is demonstrated through the beautiful example of Murali Gupta Murali Gupta ki Chaar