Gaudiya Vaishnavas seem to hold the view that only Krishna is god

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Why do the Gaudiya Vaishnavism hold the view that only Krishna is god?

 

In Hinduism it is common to regard one's Ishtadevata as supreme and all other

deities as aspects or manifestations of him/her.

 

For instance, the Shaivas regard Shiva as Parabrahman and respect Vishnu,

Krishna, Brahma, etc. as aspects or manifestations of Shiva and the goddesses

such as Lakshmi, Radha, Sarasvati, etc. as aspects or manifestations of

Shakti-Devi.

 

The Shaktas also respect the other deities.

 

But the Gaudiya Vaishnavas seem to hold the view that only Krishna is god, all

other deities are mere demi-gods.

 

Why? Did Sri Chaitanya preach that?

 

Is this view shared by all Vaishnava sects, or are there branches of the

Vaishnava tradition that follow the classical Hindu tradition?

 

On which scriptures do they base their view, and on whose interpretation of

these scriptures?

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SRI:

 

Hare Krishna Dear Prabhu,

 

to your question i hope to give you a bit information

well to introduce myself i was born into a shaiva family in Tamil

Eelam (Sri Lanka).

 

i follow now the Vaishnava path and this because of full faith in

Krishna/Vishnu. All my life i was looking for those questions similar

to yours.

 

I was 17 years when i read The Bhagavad Gita As IT IS from A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad,my hole life changed from then. Sri

Krishna himself declares to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead in

the holy Gita, Bhagavan Krishna says all the other Gods/Godneses are

HIS expansions are intened to those Humans who want to live a

materialistic life . However if you do want to go back to the

Paradise which is mentioned as Krishnaloka/Vaikuntha etc.(many other

names exists) than you have to follow in the path of the Gita which

means in the Spritual path of life.

 

Well now you could ask, there are so many Gita Visions by so many

Authors, which one is the true ONE??

 

Sri Krishna says only those who are in HIS Guru parampara are entiled

to "speak,act" in behalf of HIM. This Guru Parampara is explained by

Krishna Himself. There Sri Krishna says who is a REAl Guru of HIS

Guru Parampara.

 

I myself read through accidentally the biography of A.C.

Bhaktivedanta Prabhupad then read the Bhagavad Gita As IT IS, from

him. His life was stunning and is an example for others to follow in

Prabhupad footsteps.

 

hope to have given you some information

 

Hare Krishna/Om Namo Vishnue Namaha

 

your servant

adiyen

 

Rangan

 

 

ramanuja, "Alexandra Kafka"

<alexandra.kafka@a...> wrote:

> Why do the Gaudiya Vaishnavism hold the view that only Krishna is

god?

>

> In Hinduism it is common to regard one's Ishtadevata as supreme and

[Guest guest]

Sri:

Srimathe Ramanajaya nama:

Srimad Vara Vara Munaye nama:

Dear devotee,

I like to share with you what I have heard! The guru

paramapara,be in the tradition of Advaita(Shankaracarya),

SriVisishtadvaita(Ramanujacarya) and Dwaita(Madvacarya),starts ONLY

from Narayana!!! The successive AcAryas/gurus differ in each

tradition. This Ramanuja e-group addresses "Sri"Visishtadvaita. The

immediate AcArya next to Narayana is "Sri" the Goddess of wealth,who

is never separated from Narayana and hence Narayana is "always"

addressed as Sriman Narayana. Hence the Tradition of

SriRamanujacaraya is called as "Sri" sampradAyam/tradition.

 

Guadiya VaishNavism is a branch of Dwaitha and Sri

Chaithanya Mahaprabhu belongs to 16th Century. Sri Madwacarya

(proponent of Dwaitha philosophy)starts with Narayana as the first

AcArya. If this be the case,then why did Sri chaithanya mahaprabhu

says only Krishna as the Lord? You can base your own conclusions or

seek AcAryAs who have "digested" the vedas.

 

Shankaracaryas of Kanci Mutt always sign as "Narayana

smrthi" and whenever they give speech they always end it

as "Narayana,Narayana,Narayana". Remember that Bhagavad Gita is a

Smrthi(secondary) text and only Shruthi is the "CORE/PRIMARY" text.

So one has to do proper study of the vedas before making any

conclusions. I have heard that Adi Shankara wrote his commentary on

Brahmasutra based mainly on abhEda shruthis(nirguNa brahman) and he

even left out so many passages that deal with nirguNa brahman. One

can not afford to leave any passage or go out of shruthi to make

commentary on the same. One has to consider the vedas/shruthis in its

entirety otherwise one would come up with erroneous conclusions!

 

Although my hearthrob/favorite God is SriRama,this did not

prevent me from realising that Sriman Narayana is EVERYTHING and

other Gods namely SriRama,SriKrishna etc are only manifestations of

this Supreme God. In nutshell,every quality found in the names of

SriRama or SriKrishna are there in Sriman Narayana too but all the

auspicious qualities in Sriman Narayana are not found in SriRama etc.

If you know Mathematics,you can think it as a "one-many"

map/function. The "one" represents Sriman Narayana and "many"

represents SriRama or Sri Krishna etc...

 

 

->Vishnu

->->SriRama

->->->SriKrishna

Sriman Narayana ->->->->Srinivasa

->->->Vasudeva

->->Govinda

->"X"[you can fill it up with one of the

thousand names of vishnu]

 

The above figure is only a rough example. You see that Sriman

Narayana is related to Vishnu(& other Gods) which means whatever

quality Vishnu has,Sriman Narayana has too. Same logic follows for

all other names. On the contrary Govinda does not have all the

qualities that Vishnu has. These two names will have "atleast" one

quality which is not shared by both. Same is true with all other

names appearing on the right. This clearly shows that Sriman Narayana

is the Supreme God. I seek the forgiveness of bhAgavathas in case I

have misinterpreted our tradition!

 

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam

NC Nappinnai

 

Quote: Some books are to be tasted,some chewed and swallowed and some

others have to be digested. - Francis Bacon

 

Note: Vedas fall under the last category!