Ramanuja, Visnuswami, Madhvacarya......

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Arijit das

(VINA) 3-17-99.

 

http://www.vina.org/articles/sri_ramanuja_acarya_part_one.html

 

In an article entitled Circumambulation of Sri Brajamandal printed

Nov 1931, Chaitanya-Era 445 in the Harmonist magazine, Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta mentions Sri Ramanuja Acarya as follows:

 

Long before the Advent of the Supreme Lord, Sree Krishna Chaitanya,

the North of India had been the scene of various non-theistic

movements. The Elevationism and Idealism of the different

philosophical schools professing allegiance to the Vedas and the

atheistic cults of Jainism and Buddhism, especially the former, had

brought about the almost total suppression of the Theistic tradition

embodies in the worship of Vishnu the supremacy of which had been an

admitted fact at least from as early as the age of composition of the

oldest hymns of the Rig Veda. Mathura became, as the result of these

later movements, the chief center of the non-theistic propaganda.

 

The revival of the Vishnuvite religion came from the South and was

carried on by the schools founded by Sree Vishnuswami, Sree Nimbarka,

Sree Ramanuja and Sree Madhva respectively. The Alvars, who had also

preached pure Theism, appeared in the South from a period as early as

the Christian era. Sree Vishnuswami belonged to the third century

before Christ.

 

>From the Atharva Veda, with the commentary of Srila Sacidananda

Bhaktivinoda Thakura-Sri Caitanya-Caranamrta

 

The confidential truth is that the Lord has descended with His own

abode, Goloka-Dhama, to the supremely sanctified land of Gauda, in

the form of a devotee as Sri Krsna Caitanya Himself and desiring to

deliver love of God, He has exposed the transcendental secret of

madhura-rasa which enlivens all the devotees in the material world,

headed by Sathakopa, Ramanuja, Visnuswami, Madhvacarya, Nimbarka,

etc., for the purpose of quickly bestowing suspiciousness unto the

living beings in Kali-Yuga. Bhakti vedyah means that the living

entities can know the Lord by the practice of devotional service and

not by the practice of dry philosophical speculation.

 

According to the evidence of Ramanuja, etc., by the mellow of

servitorship, dasya-rasa, there is no direct path. The destination of

those who practice dasya rasa etc. is limited to Vaikuntha. This is

apparent in their books, etc. This is because Sri Caitanya is the

source of the universe and the only teacher in the matter of

instructing vraja-rasa.