Young Abhay Charan (Srila Prabhupada’s legal name) was convinced and years later, Srila Prabhupada told his disciples that during that fortuitous meeting he had internally surrendered to his spiritual master and he was defeated by Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur. “I was happy to be defeated by my guru Maharaj”, Srila Prabhupada would happily recount,…

Lord Chaitanya replied, “You are a pure devotee of Krishna. Any words spoken by a pure devotee are perfect. Anything a pure devotee writes, even if by material considerations there are faults, it is still considered to be flawless. That’s because it is done with a pure desire to love and serve Krishna. And if…