Yoga Vasistha

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> One

> person has asked a question that as this book contains instructions given

> by Vasistha Muni to Lord Ramachandra why do Gaudiya Vaishnavas not accept

> its conclusions?

 

The Gaudiya Vaishnavas don't accept Yoga-vasistha for the simple reason that

Supreme Personality of Godhead in His most recent incarnation appeared as

Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and totally rejected it. The following

statements from Cc prove it.

 

 

"Thus I expounded the Yoga-vasistha, which considers liberation the ultimate

goal of life. For this the Lord became angry at Me and treated Me with

apparent disrespect.

 

purport

 

There is a book of the name Yoga-vasistha that Mayavadis greatly favor

because it is full of impersonal misunderstandings regarding the Supreme

Personality of Godhead, with no touch of Vaisnavism. Factually, all

Vaisnavas should avoid such a book, but Advaita Acarya Prabhu, wanting

punishment from the Lord, began to support the impersonal statements of the

Yoga-vasistha. Thus Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu became extremely angry at Him

and seemingly treated Him disrespectfully. (Cc adi 12.40)

 

When Advaita Acarya Prabhu was reading Yoga-vasistha, Lord Caitanya

Mahaprabhu beat Him, but He never told Him not to come into His presence.(Cc

adi 12.45)

 

"I shall not soon be pleased with Mukunda Datta, for though he explains

devotional service among devotees, he then goes to Mayavadis to hear from

them the Yoga-vasistha-ramayana, which is full of Mayavada philosophy. For

this I am greatly displeased with him." Cc adi 17.65