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<div class="heading">No, you should read. We are following previous ācāryas. But first of all assimilate what you have got.</div>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- May 13, 1975, Perth|Morning Walk -- May 13, 1975, Perth]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Paramahaṁsa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, I remember once I heard a tape where you told us that we should not try to read the books of previous ācāryas.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Hmm?</p>
<p>Amogha: That we should not try to read Bhaktivinoda's books or earlier books of other, all ācāryas. So I was just wondering...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: I never said that.</p>
<p>Amogha: You didn't say that? Oh.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: How is that?</p>
<p>Amogha: I thought you said that we should not read the previous ācāryas' books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No, you should read.</p>
<p>Amogha: We should.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: It is misunderstanding.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: I think maybe he was thinking that there was some things about some of the Gauḍīya Maṭha books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Maybe.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: And sometimes you said that better not to..., better to read your books.</p>
<p>Amogha: When the devotees went to India this year, they said that Acyutānanda Swami very..., chastised them that "You should never... If I catch any of you buying Bhaktisiddhānta's books from Gauḍīya Maṭha then I will take it away," something like this.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Yeah, that was, the reason was because of, he didn't want the devotees going to Gauḍīya Maṭha. But there's nothing wrong with the idea of studying the previous ācāryas' books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: No. Who said? That is wrong. We are following previous ācāryas. I never said that.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: All of your commentaries are coming from the previous ācāryas.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Jayadharma: But that wouldn't mean that we should keep all the previous ācāryas' books and only read them.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: That is already there. You first of all assimilate what you have got. You simply pile up books and do not read—what is the use?</p>
<p>Jayadharma: First of all we must read all your books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes.</p>
<p>Paramahaṁsa: Practically speaking, Śrīla Prabhupāda, you are giving us the essence of all the previous ācāryas' books in your books.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Yes.</p></div>
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