It is found that the Christians are very confused on these points and subsequently inconsistent. Christ says "I and my Father are one" then he say "The Father is greater than I".
This is what Lord Caitanya taught. Oneness and simultaneous difference. But you are right they won't hear it from us because we insist on everyone having that same nature ultimately. They get suspious that we are trying to bring Christ down in some way. Actually we are just trying to bring others up.
I don't understand where this idea of Lord Balarama comes from unless he means Christ is simultanously a representative of Balarama as well as His incarnation. Again one and different. Could you speak more to that?
Haribol
Another point is that disciplic succession does not mean one has to be directly a disciple of a particular person.-letter to Kirtananda 69-01-25
... disciplic succession does not always mean that one has to be initiated officially. Disciplic succession means to accept the disciplic conclusion. -letter to Dinesh 1969
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