SLOKA OF THE WEEK:

Śrī Caitanya Caritāmṛta
Ādi 8.78
ei grantha lekhāya more 'madana-mohana'
āmāra likhana yena śukera paṭhana

ei — this; grantha — great literature; lekhāya — causes me to write; more — unto me; madana-mohana — the Deity; āmāra — my; likhana — writing; yena — like; śukera — of the parrot; paṭhana — responding.

TRANSLATION

Actually Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta is not my writing but the dictation of Śrī Madana-mohana. My writing is like the repetition of a parrot.

JOURNAL:

Srila Prabhupada writes at the begining of his purport; This should be the attitude of all devotees. When the Supreme Personality of Godhead recognizes a devotee, He gives him intelligence and dictates how he may go back home, back to Godhead. This is confirmed in Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā (10.10):

teṣāḿ satata-yuktānāḿ bhajatāḿ prīti-pūrvakam
dadāmi buddhi-yogaḿ taḿ yena mām upayānti te

"To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."

He has also told us many times that to be a guru one must always repeat the words of the spiritual master and not interpet. I myself always pray that what I write here follows the "dictation" of Srila Prabhupada and Lord Sri Krishna.