Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaj
691209DB.LA Lectures 240564/530501
When he was a child two, three years old, he ate one mango fruit
which was kept for offering to the Deity. So his father mildly rebuked
him, “Oh, you have done a very wrong thing. It was meant for Deity,
and you have taken it. You should not have done it.” The child was two
or three years old. He took it so seriously that never after that he
took mango. Whenever we offered him mango he said, “No, I am offender.
I cannot take mango.” He was thinking like that, you see. Never in his
life he took a mango. He was thinking that “I offended in my childhood
by taking the mango of the Deity.” This is the characteristic of
acarya. They teach by their life’s action that one should be so much
determined, that one should not be… A child took the mango, there
was no offense. But he took that vow.