The Future Church of the
World
The religion preached by Mahaprabhu is
universal and not exclusive. The most learned
and the most ignorant are both
entitled to embrace it. The learned people will
accept it with a knowledge of sambandha-tatwa as explained in the
categories. The ignorant have the same privilege by
simply uttering the name of the Deity and mixing in the company of pure Vaishnavs.
The principle of Kirtan invites, as the future church of the world, all
classes of men without distinction of caste or clan to the highest
cultivation of the spirit. This church it appears, will extend all
over the world and take the place of all sectarian churches, which exclude
out-siders from the precincts of the mosque, church or the temple.
From Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, His Life
and Precepts.
By Bhaktivinoda Thakur
