Prabhupada, June 18, 1976, Toronto: …Sometimes the Gaudiya Vaishnavas are challenged that “You cannot be accepted as bona fide community, spiritual community, because you have no bhasya on Brahma-sutra.”
Then Baladeva Vidyabhusana wrote govinda-bhasya. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not like or ask His disciples to write, because He thought, “This is the Gaudiya, Brahma-sutra-bhasya.” Not Gaudiya— for every Vaishnava. Bhasyayam brahma-sutranam.
So we have got now Gaudiya Vedanta-bhasya. Ramanuja Vedanta-bhasya is there. Madhvacarya Vedanta-bhasya is there, all. And Gaudiya had not. But since this challenge was made in Jaipur, then Baladeva Vidyabhusana, he took: “Yes,” and he finished, Gaudiya bhasya, and it is called Govinda-bhasya.
Actually, in India, unless one follows the acaryas and has given commentary on the Brahma-sutra, he’s not a bona fide. Nyaya-prasthana. Brahma-sutra is called nyaya- prasthana. Sruti-prasthana, smrti-prasthana, nyaya-prasthana. So any bona fide acarya must give his understanding about these three prasthanas.
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