Digest bhakti.v003.n261

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> I only have a comment on one small part of what Srimahavishnu

> wrote:

> > most of the

> > rAmAnandIs have "dAs" at the end of their initiated name while rAmAnujIs

> > normally used to have "AchArI".

> In old maNipravALa texts such as the guru parampara prabhAvam

> and periya thirumudi adaivu, the names of many Sri Vaishnava

> acharyas also contain the suffix "dAsa", Tamilized to "dAsar".

> Perhaps this was an ancient tradition passed on to the

> Ramanandis in the North.

I have a similar question. It seems to me that the RAmAnandIs in

the North place greater emphasis on the name of RAma (cf. RAma-nAmIs,

etc.) than do the ZrI vaiSNavas in the South. Is this so? Certainly

TulasIdAsa, whether he is a RAmAnandI or not, stresses the Lord's name

almost as much as do the followers of ZrI Caitanya. But perhaps I'm just

ignorant of the Southern tradition.

 

MT

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M. Tandy wrote:

> I have a similar question. It seems to me that the RAmAnandIs in

> the North place greater emphasis on the name of RAma (cf. RAma-nAmIs,

> etc.) than do the ZrI vaiSNavas in the South. Is this so? Certainly

> TulasIdAsa, whether he is a RAmAnandI or not, stresses the Lord's name

> almost as much as do the followers of ZrI Caitanya. But perhaps I'm just

> ignorant of the Southern tradition.

>

> MT

>From what I have read about the rAmAnandi tradition, I believe that this is

true. The emphasis on Sri Rama and His Name is so strong, in fact, that it

seems that Sri Ramananda Swamy promoted a rahasyatrAyam centered solely around

Rama. In it, the name nArAyana in the SriVaishnava versions of thirumantram and

dvAyam are replaced with rAma. And, the charama slokam of gItAchAryan becomes

replaced with the charama slokam from srimad rAmAyanam, "sakrdeva

prapannAya..." While I have not read the work of Sri Ramanand that contains

this, SriVaishnava matAbja bhAskara, I am to understand that an examination of

Sri Ramananda's interpretation of these Rama centered mantrams bears stark

parallels and shows the obvious influence, as Sri Mani has stated, of Swamy

Pillai Lokacharya.

>From what I have learned, though, while all the names of the Lord are wonderful

and potent, they are limited as though can only capture a few of His

anantakalyAnagunas. The only name that can really describe Him in all His

Fullness, the name that belongs to emperumAn alone, is Narayana. Consequently,

the role of chanting this name becomes more emphasized in SriVaishnava tradition

over and above all His other Holy Names.

 

adiyEn,

 

Mohan