At the invitation of the Editor of “Amrita Bazaar Patrika” and Swami Chinmayananda Ji, Srila Gurudeva went to Amrita Bazaar Patrika Bhavana in Bag Bazaar. There, He inaugurated the evening session of a Vaishnava convention on the occasion of Sri Krishna Janmashtami. Sri Acintya Kumar Sengupta was the President and the Chief Guest was the Honorable Justice Sri Sisir Kumar Mukhopadhyaya. “Amrita Bazaar Patrika,” “Yujantar,” “Basumati” and other dailies published news of the event. The following was published in “Amrita Bazaar Patrika”:

Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Maharaja said Lord Krishna was Absolute Brahma in Human Form. The significance of Vrindavan Leela, he said, was to illustrate before the world how God could endear Himself to His devotees. It was not correct to say, he argued, that Lord Krishna’s Advent was merely for the establishment of Dharma and the destruction of evildoers. He projected Himself through His life to illustrate that in the present phase of the creation absolute surrender to God was the real path for attaining salvation.

He said this God-intoxicated Love was greater than the bliss a Yogi could gain through the realization of Brahma, he argued. Lord Krishna had not only explained this to Arjuna in the Kurukshetra battlefield as one read in the Gita, but He also appeared again on earth in the Form of Lord Gauranga to illustrate the power of Love and Bhakti.

Today, mankind was haunted with fear of death and complexities because of social and political turmoils. Man could escape this bewildering situation only through the love and surrender to Lord Krishna who was none else than Absolute Brahma. He said knowledge and devotion to learning were means to come closer to God, but one could not feel the presence of God within him unless he had Bhakti in his life and work.”

(Amrita Bazaar Patrika, Calcutta, Wednesday 30 August, 1967)