The eternal teaching of surrender to Krishna, passed through disciplic succession, requires only faith and faithful repetition—no new philosophy needed.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Bhagavad-gītā 4.3 — February 10, 1974, Vṛndāvana 740210BG-VRNDAVAN [16:56 Minutes] Bg-04.03_740210BG-VRNDAVAN Prabhupada: bhakto 'si me sakhā ceti rahasyaṁ hy etad uttamam [Bg. 4.3] So this verse we discussed last night, that this bhagavad-bhakti-yoga is not a new thing. It is purātanaḥ. Kṛṣṇa says, yogaḥ proktaḥ purātanaḥ [Bg. 4.3]. So just like I was discussing now with Dr.
Kapoor, our philosophy is not new: purātanaḥ—the old thing. At the present moment it is a fashion to propound a new kind of philosophy. Not only now; formerly also, as it is said in the Bhāgavatam, nāsāv munir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam [Cc. Madhya 17.186].
A muni is not a muni… Muni means mental speculators; manansi, thoughtful muni, thoughtful also—always absorbed in thoughts. So a thoughtful man or a great saintly person is not a great saintly person if he hasn’t got to propound a new theory—nāsāv munir yasya mataṁ na bhinnam [Cc. Madhya 17.186]. That is the modern philosophical way, researchment.
This philosopher’s contribution is up to this; and this philosopher… We have also such things. Just like our Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava and Rāmānujācārya Vaiṣṇava. Rāmānujācārya Vaiṣṇava, they appreciate the service of the Lord up to sakhya-rasa—viśrambha-sakhya—with awe and veneration. Śānta, dāsya, sakhya, up to this information, Rāmānujācārya. But Mādhavācārya sampradāya, they have got up to mādhurya-rasa.
And Caitanya Mahāprabhu propounded this mādhurya-rasa. Therefore He is worshiped by Rūpa Gosvāmī: anarpita-carīṁ cirāt karuṇayāvatīrṇaḥ kalau samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasāṁ sva-bhakti-śriyam [Cc. Ādi 1.4] Unnatojjvala. Everyone has got some relationship with Kṛṣṇa, but the highest, topmost relationship is mādhurya-rasa—unnato-ujjvala. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu gave this mādhurya-rasa, gopīs, gopī-bhāva-rasāmṛtābdhi-laharī. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s contribution to the Vaiṣṇava philosophers or Vaiṣṇavas: mādhurya-rasa.
Other ācāryas… We have got four ācāryas in Vaiṣṇava sampradāya. Vātsalya-rasa, I think, is Vallabhācārya; they are vātsalya-rasa, Bāla Kṛṣṇa. And Rāmānujācārya, they are up to sakhya-rasa, viśrambha-sakhya. But Caitanya Mahāprabhu gives information, ramyā kācid upāsanā vrajavadhū-vargeṇa yā kalpitā.
The method of worship as it was done by the gopīs, vrajavadhū, that is the best. Ramyā kācid upāsanā. There is no better process of worship than the method adopted by the gopīs: always thinking of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is gone to the pasturing grounds, and the gopīs are thinking at home, “Oh, Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet is so soft that we feel ashamed to keep His lotus feet on our breasts.