¹ Note that Rāma did not appoint Lakṣmaṇa as His proxy to unofficially bypass Bharata’s authority to rule over the kingdom and so on. There is nothing clandestine or deceptive in Lord Rāma’s activities—even for a “good” cause, “higher” cause, “spiritual” cause and so on. Because Rāma has made Himself so extremely predictable to those who accept Vedic authority, He has won the hearts and admiration of countless ethical and intelligent living beings since millions of years. The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava line has been adorned with a mighty ācārya in the shape of Saccidānanda Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura who had displayed the same impeccable ethics and spirit in his dealings in the gṛhastha-āśrama and later too. His behavior reminds us of the wise teaching, “Follow Rāma while worshipping Kṛṣṇa.”