Purity is the Force

Prabhupada was the symbol of self-sacrifice.  He was not overbearing, just pure.  He had no desire to win respect for himself, he simply wanted people to recognize the supremacy of Krishna.  This came out especially in Prabhupada’s writing.  Walt Whitman said that everything one is will come out in one’s writing.  If you are the kind of person who likes to have a servant stand behind you at the dinner table, that will come out in your writing.  If you are cruel to your wife, that will come out in your writing.  Even if you try to avoid those topics in your writing, still they find their way into your expressions.  In Prabhupada’s case, we see every phrase saturated with his faithful desire to present Krishna’s message.  His writing is not outstanding because he was a great Sanskrit scholar, or because he used polished prose.  These things are also true, but his outstanding feature is his presentation of Krishna as He is.  This is very unusual for commentators of Бхагавад-гита.  Most Гиты commentators cannot resist using the Гиты to propound their own philosophy.