Reading the previous acaryas’ books and Srila Prabhupada’s books

Paramahamsa: Srila Prabhupada, I remember once I heard a tape where you told
us that we should not try to read the books of previous acaryas.
Prabhupada: Hmm?
Amogha: That we should not try to read Bhaktivinoda’s books or earlier books
of other, all acaryas. So I was just wondering…
Prabhupada: I never said that.
Amogha: You didn’t say that? Oh.
Prabhupada: How is that?
Amogha: I thought you said that we should not read the previous acaryas’
books.
Prabhupada: No, you should read.
Amogha: We should.
Prabhupada: It is misunderstanding.
Paramahamsa: I think maybe he was thinking that there was some things about
some of the Gaudiya Matha books.
Prabhupada: Maybe.
Paramahamsa: And sometimes you said that better not to…, better to read
your books.
Amogha: When the devotees went to India this year, they said that
Acyutananda Swami very…, chastised them that “You should never… If I
catch any of you buying Bhaktisiddhanta’s books from Gaudiya Matha then I
will take it away,” something like this.
Paramahamsa: Yeah, that was, the reason was because of, he didn’t want the
devotees going to Gaudiya Matha. But there’s nothing wrong with the idea of
studying the previous acaryas’ books.
Prabhupada: No. Who said? That is wrong. We are following previous acaryas.
I never said that.
Paramahamsa: All of your commentaries are coming from the previous acaryas.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Jayadharma: But that wouldn’t mean that we should keep all the previous
acaryas’ books and only read them.
Prabhupada: That is already there. You first of all assimilate what you have
got. You simply pile up books and do not read — what is the use?
Jayadharma: First of all we must read all your books.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Paramahamsa: Practically speaking, Srila Prabhupada, you are giving us the
essence of all the previous acaryas’ books in your books.
Prabhupada: Yes.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk — May 13, 1975, Perth