Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana Appearance Day | Srila Prabhupada Lecture

Recorded On: 14 June 1970, LOS ANGELES

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Their voices rose with the sun. It was early morning in an Indian village school.
The boys sat in neat rows behind palm-leaf manuscripts, committing their lessons to memory.
As they chanted their grammar rules, their rhetoric lessons, and their logic aphorisms, each boy chanted loud enough to hear himself over his neighbour, resulting in a blend of high-pitched voices.
This school, attended by Baladeva early in the eighteenth century, closely resembled village schools that existed in India for thousands of years.
The system had endured because it was effective, producing brilliant and disciplined scholars, and Baladeva was among the best of them.

Before coming to school, Baladeva, the son of a merchant, had lived for several years near the Orissan town of Remuna.
From there he had gone to study with the group of panditas at this school, situated idyllically on the bank of the Cilkahrada River.
The lush Orissan forests and fertile fields provided ample fruits, vegetables, and grains for a wholesome, varied diet.
The boys studied hard, played hard, and grew lean, healthy, and discerning.

When Baladeva graduated from school, he did not want to return home to work in his father's shop.
He wanted to be a scholar -- not an ordinary scholar but a true acarya, one who could teach divine wisdom.
A pandita had to master logic, philosophy, medicine, or cosmology, but an acharya had to know the scriptures that impart the deepest wisdom. Baladeva decided to study philosophy and theology.
He would become a Vedantist, an authority on the ancient Vedic books of knowledge.
He could not think of any greater way to benefit himself or others.

In search of a preceptor, Baladeva went on pilgrimage to the tirthas (holy places), where he would meet monks and scholars.
In Mysore (now Karnataka), in southwestern India, he came upon a hermitage of holy men who were also called Tirthas, followers of the saint and scholar Ananda Tirtha (A.D. 1197-1273), who was known formally as Madhva Acarya.
In the monastery, or matha, Baladeva studied Vedanta and mastered the arts of debate and rhetoric.
These talents would serve him well in a challenge he would later face while still a young man.

The challenge Baladeva would meet is of critical importance to the history of Gaudiya Vaisnavism, the spiritual school to which the modern day Krsna consciousness movement belongs.

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