Our Prospect is Through Gaura-Lila
Gaura-lila is more useful because our prospect is there. Through Mahaprabhu we have entrance into the other aspect of His lila.
Lecture given by Srila Sridhara Maharaja in the evening of the 24th December 1944 at Sri Caitanya Matha, Mayapura, and published in Dainik Nadiya Prakasa on the occasion of the observance of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura’s disappearance.
This book was probably the first literary work by Srila Prabhupada after he accepted sannyasa in 1959.
It would seem that Sankara’s detractors were correct in assessing that his philosophy was crypto-Buddhism.