With what attitude should we quote new verses or scriptural points apart from those given In Prabhupada’s books?

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so question from Govindji Prabhu sometimes trying to learn new verses or speak new points apart from what Prabhupada has given is it wrong is it desirable or undesirable answer, if the points are coming from Shastras, if the verses are coming from scriptures then it’s not undesirable Prabhupada is not given as a personality cult, where he is the one and only person Prabhupada has connected us with a tradition and he right in the first chapter of the first canto of Srimad Bhagavatam itself states that the serious student should study the commentaries of the previous Acharyas and when he talks about the commentaries of the previous Acharyas he doesn’t quote just Acharyas from our Sampradaya, he even quotes Vallabha and others who are from outside the Gaudiya Sampradaya also so Shri Prabhupada is connecting us with a tradition and just as Prabhupada wrote his books for us, similarly the Acharyas also have written their books for us only they are our Acharyas and if we don’t read the books who are going to read the books isn’t it so it’s our responsibility to read those books so now the desire for newness in our speech or in our presentation now that has to be properly understood if what we want to present new things is so that people can deepen their understanding then that is good but if the newness is just to show off my knowledge, I know something which no one else knows then that is undesirable but if our so when we study new things, so generally in the initial stages of our spiritual life we should study Shri Prabhupada’s books and get rooted properly in the philosophy and then gradually under the guidance of senior devotees we can also read other books, we can read Piyasacharya’s books, we can read other Iskcon devotees books and in one sense it’s a war so in a war we can’t say that this is the only weapon I am going to use, you know whatever weapon works you can use and somebody else if I am speaking to somebody who is scientifically minded, then if some devotees have written some scientific books then I can read those scientific books if somebody is a scholar of Upanishads and I want to speak with him, now Prabhupada has given commentary on Upanishad, but if I want to study Upanishad properly then I will have to refer to Balde Vidya Bhushan Govinda Bhashya which is like a summary analysis study of the Upanishads so for specific purposes it may not just be desirable but it will be essential to read certain books so the desire for presenting substantial content it should be motivated not by the desire to show off one’s knowledge, it should be by desire to introduce people to the depth of our tradition there are so many Acharyas and there are so many books and there is so much depth to this knowledge, so then often when people see the depth of it then their intellectual conviction also increases and they also come closer to Krishna by that so for that purpose if we study then it is it is a very valuable service that we can do to Srila Prabhupada and to the previous Acharyas and to the whole tradition by continuing on the legacy in today’s times thank you