Beware of Rasika bhakti

There brews a controversy over whether or not bhakti requires us to know our exact siddha pranali or siddha svarupa. Srila Prabhupada de-emphasized knowing this on many occasions, always refusing to answer questions put to him about his own form in the spiritual world. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, according to one biography of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta (a work still in progress) is reputed to have said that it was better that the rasa sastra be taken out from this world and destroyed, rather than be exposed to those who are not fit to understand it. “Great damage has been done by the misuse of these rasa sastras, by exposing them to people not fit to hear.”