Guest guest Posted April 10, 2003 Report Share Posted April 10, 2003 what is the difference between gaudiya samparadaya and ramanuja sampradaya.which sampradaya is useful in understanding lord vishnu in less time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 11, 2003 Report Share Posted April 11, 2003 --- "bharathradhekrishna.chennu" <radhe_titanic wrote: > what is the difference between gaudiya samparadaya > and ramanuja > sampradaya.which sampradaya is useful in > understanding lord vishnu in > less time. > > > > ----------------------------- > - SrImate rAmAnujAya namaH - > To Post a message, send it to: > bhakti-list > Group Home: > bhakti-list > Archives: http://ramanuja.org/sv/bhakti/archives/ > > > Your use of is subject to > > ------------------- Radhekrishna! Throughout the Baratadesa 9 different sampradayas or traditions of vishnavism are being followed.They are of :Sri Adisankara,sriRamanuja,Madhva,chaitanyamahaprabhu, Nimbarka,Hitha Harivamsa,Vallabhacharya,Gnaneswara,Ramananda. > Out of these the srivaishnava or Ramanuja cult is oldest to the age of Alwars.the cult based on the life experiences & teachings of 12 alwars as reflected in their divine compositions in praise of vLord Vishnu viz the Divyaprabandams which was nourished by the commentories of acharyas of south india & propagated & administered by Acharya sriRamanuja is Ramanuja sampradaya or srivaishnavacult.The cult gains its status thro the bhashyams done by Ramanuja on Brahmasutras,Upanishads,& BagawatGeeta. The Gaudiya tradition is that started by Cahitanyamahaprabu& that whicch is based on the life & teachings of sri krishnachaitanyamahaprabhu,commentories to Vedic & puranic literatures & compositions of His disciplic successors,viz Brindavana 6 Goswamis 7 others ,all belonging to the regions comprising bengal,orissa,Bihar & some parts of u.p,the area called as Gaudiya desa.the sampradaya gained its religiuos & social status thro the commentories given for the three vedantic works prasnotrathrayam by Baladeva vidhya Bhushana.It was propagated & brought easily to the public of modern age by Bhakthi vinoda thakur,Bhakthisiddanda saraswathi & Srila A.c.bakthivedanthaswami prabupada(Iskcon founder). The difference between ramanuja sampradaya & Gaudiya sampradaya of mahaprabu is that in the latter one Lord Krishna is conidered to be the supreme personality of Godhead & Lord vishnu is regarded as His Amsa.whereas in srivaisnavism Lord vishnu is supreme & krishna is one of His avathara.But the significance of vishnu & krishna is equally acknowledged in both.There are many philosophical differences between these sampradayas ..But devotees may not go for those things.Devotees are free to take the path of any of the sampradayas of proper origin & good leadership Acharyaparampara of their choice since all are equally good and significant ones.Both are simple & essence of both are:true devotion to the lord,Bhakthas,singing the Glory of the lord & chanting His name.So both are simple and easy to be followed. Radhekrishna! Krishnadas.A.s Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 17, 2003 Report Share Posted April 17, 2003 In the Patanjali Yoga Sutras, the Great Patanjali, who is none other than an incarnation of Adi Seshan, mentions among the possible solutions very tersly "Iswarapranidanani" i.e. devotion to Iswara. In the next sutra he starts defining Iswara. Iswara according to him is one who is Maha Purusha and who is untouched by Time, space and Kleshas (simplistically put, imperfections). Patanjali has very cleverly and appropriately not talked about God or any form Shiva/Vishnu etc. He just defines concepts. In short, a perfect being /entity. So, if you want to know more about the dear Lord of ours, you cannot bring in time. Even a full life time of 100 years is not enough. Wanting to know about various Sampradayas is one thing, but wanting to know with the motive to speed up the knowledge is different and may not be appropriate. Hope this is taken in the right spirit in which it is echoed and not as a critcism on your query. Lastly hope it is a typo. Humbly request you to exercise extra care next time in spelling out the Lord's name. It is a proper name beginning with a Capital V. Om Tat Sat --- "bharathradhekrishna.chennu" <radhe_titanic wrote: > what is the difference between gaudiya samparadaya > and ramanuja > sampradaya.which sampradaya is useful in > understanding lord vishnu in > less time. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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