Friday, 27 December 2024
Why does Sri Krishna dislike eggplants
Why does Sri Krishna dislike eggplants so much so that he doesn't go near people who consume it regularly as per Sri Haribhaktivilasa?
Haribhaktivilasa was a compilation of quotes from numerous disparate sources made by Sanatana Goswami and Gopala Bhatta Goswami. The only source it cites for this teaching is Skanda Purana - infamously the single most interpolated and altered of all the Puranas. It also doesn’t give any chapter or verse number, only “Skanda Purana”, so I don’t know if it really says that somewhere in this enormous work. Perhaps it does, or did within a certain variant manuscript that came into the hands of Sanatana Goswami or Gopala Bhatta Goswami.
Regardless, I cannot accept this teaching as true. Even in the Gaudiya Sampradaya which produced Haribhaktivilasa, Chaitanya himself consumed eggplants regularly. So did many other Gaudiya Gurus, including Prabhupada. So I don’t think this line should be accepted as authoritative
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