Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Jiva Goswami has composed six sandarbhas, theses — bhagavata-sandarbha, krsna-sandarbha, tattva-sandarbha, priti-sandarbha, etc. I don't think they are published in English. These sandarbhas are so philosophically discussed that throughout the whole world there is not a single philosopher who can defy Jiva Goswami's six sandarbhas. (Lecture in London, 6 August 1971.)
Sri Jiva Goswami is the nephew of Sri Rupa Goswami. In the learned circles in Bengal, they say that such a big scholar and philosopher has not appeared in the past, and nobody expects a similar philosopher and learned scholar in the future. He was such a big personality, Jiva Goswami. Big, big mayavadis, they were afraid of Jiva Goswami's logic and argument to establish the vaisnava philosophy. (Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam in Detroit, 13 June 1976.)
Jiva Goswami was the greatest scholar till now. Nobody can compete with Jiva Goswami's scholarship in Sanskrit and philosophy. That is the verdict of all learned scholars. The world's best philosopher and Sanskrit scholar was Srila Jiva Goswami. He happened to be the nephew of Rupa Goswami. When Jiva Goswami's father and
uncles left home, he was only a ten-year-old boy. He thought, "If my father and uncles have left, why shall I not leave home?" So at the age of ten years he left home and went to Benares, the seat of Sanskrit scholars. He learned there Sanskrit very nicely,
became a great scholar, and then joined his uncles in Vrindavan. (Lecture in San Francisco, 28 June 1971.)
Srila Jiva Goswami became a disciple of his uncle by proper initiation and remained with him. He was assisting his uncle, and after hearing from him he composed very scholarly compositions known as sat-sandarbha. These six sandarbhas are recognized
as the most scholarly work in the world. There is no comparison of his philosophical approach with respect to the vaisnava school. The impersonal brahman is discussed there, then Krishna, bhagavatam, and love of Krishna are discussed successively. In this way, all subject matters related to vaisnavism are very elaborately discussed in the sat-sandarbha. That is the greatest gift of Srila Jiva Goswami. (Room Conversation
in Vrindavan, 11 March 1972.)
Instead of teaching ordinary grammar studies, Lord Chaitanya explained every sentence in such a way that every Sanskrit word and every letter was understood
to indicate Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This form of grammar was later on developed by Srila Jiva Goswami into a book called Hari-namamrta-vyakarana, "The Grammar of the Nectar and Name of Sri Hari." (From a purport to the song Nama-saìkirtana by Narottam Das Thakur.)
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