RE: deeksha guru

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gpd108 [gpd108]

Saturday, January 26, 2002 5:19 AM

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Priya Sriman Gopiparanandhanaji!

Jai Srimannarayana!

We are happy to see your mail. We made you to wait for a long time to get

the reply. We are sure that you were not disappointed by us.

 

According to Sri Ramanuja Sampradaya, Deeksha Guru will be only one.

Siksha Gurus may be more. No problem. According to Ve:das, Na:ra:yana

manthra is considered to be the most powerful and supreme manthra. So

persons taken any manthra earlier, are eligible to take Na:ra:yana

manthra, when they understand the real meaning of that. But once taken

that manthra, one need not take any other manthra for salvation. Then

for a Srivaishnavite, who gets Na:ra:yana manthra, no question arises

to take another manthra or deeksha.

 

Now, so far as Sanyasa Diksha is concerned, if one has taken deeksha as

just sadha, who wears saffron clothe and not dandam as such, can take

advanced deeksha viz., Tridandam. But that should be from a Tridandi

Sanyasi of Srivaishnava sampradayam only. There is no superior order

than that.

 

Our mangalasasanams to you and all other vaishnavas also.

=chinnajeeyar=

 

> Please accept my namaskaras to Sri Jeeyar Swami

> and the Sri Vaisnavas.

 

> I am a follower of the Gaudiya sampradaya, an

> initiated member of the International Society

> for Krishna Consciousness, and am doing some

> research for ISKCON on questions concerning diksa.

 

> My question is whether, according to Sri

> Vaishnava doctrine, a devotee can have more than

> one diksa-guru. According to the teachings of

> my sampradaya's acaryas, one can have any number

> of siksa-gurus but only one diksa-guru. Does your

> understanding agree with that?

 

> But if one already has diksa in one mantra,

> can he take another diksa in a different mantra?

 

> Can that second diska be taken from a different

> guru? Or if one takes a preliminary (samanya)

> diksa from one guru, can he take a more advanced

> diksa from another?

 

> Thank you for taking the trouble to answer this.

> Your humble servant, Gopiparanadhana Dasa

> Govardhana (Mathura, UP)

Gopiparanadhana Dasa