Site for Sri Vallabhacarya Sampradya

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Dear Devotees

 

Please accept my humble obesainces unto your lotus feet

Hare Krishna

 

Recently I discovered the following site-

 

http://www.pushtimargiya.org/

 

which is related to Shuddhaadviata philosophy of Sri Vallabhacarya.

 

While going through the website I found the following under the

section named - Principles of Pushtimarga

 

Here under the subheading founder it is written-

 

" At its root are the scriptures (Vedas, Upanishads, Brahm Sutra,

Gita, Shree Mad Bhagwatam) and its founder or the one who brought it

into vogue is Shree Mahaprabhuji. He was a great Acharya (religious

teacher) an incarnation of Krishna. Shree Vallabh Acharya appeared in

the 16th century.

 

He took form to remove the prevalent misconceptions surrounded

Hinduism resulting in the domination of Moguls and to remove the

prevalent Buddhist traditions. "

 

I was intrigued to know that the pustimarg followers accept Sriman

Mahaprabhu as avatar of Sri Krishna and also as founder of their sect.

 

It is also interesting to note that in the section about the author

the author first offers obesiances unto Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and

then offers it to Sri Vallabh Acarya.

 

 

Your Servant Always

OM TAT SAT

Sumeet.

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At 02:24 PM 10/28/01 -1000, sumeet1981 wrote:

Dear Devotees

Please accept my humble obesainces unto your lotus feet

Hare Krishna

Recently I discovered the following site-

http://www.pushtimargiya.org/

which is related to Shuddhaadviata philosophy of Sri Vallabhacarya.

W

I was intrigued to know that the pustimarg followers accept Sriman

Mahaprabhu as avatar of Sri Krishna and also as founder of their

sect.

It is also interesting to note that in the section about the author

the author first offers obesiances unto Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and

Actually, what this means is that the Vallabhas accept Sri Vallabhacarya

as the incartnation of Krishna; they refer to him as Mahaprabhu. There's

a long tangled history between the Gaudiya vaishnavas and the pusti-marg

vaishnavas.

Babhru das

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On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 sumeet1981 wrote:

> I was intrigued to know that the pustimarg followers accept Sriman

> Mahaprabhu as avatar of Sri Krishna and also as founder of their sect.

Pustimargis refer to Vallabhacarya as "Mahaprabhu." Like the

bhaktas of almost any other vaishnava sampradaya, they believe their

founder to be an incarnation of some sort. Some descendents say Vallabha

is Krsna himself, others say he is Agni, others say he is the mouth of Krsna.

I haven't heard sastric references for any of these. Kavi Karnapura's

Gauraganoddesadipika identifies Vallabha as an incarnation of Sukadeva

Gosvami (Vallabha-sampradaya devotees are also very fond of the Srimad

Bhagavatam). Whatever Vallabha's ontological identity, he deserves a

great deal of respect because it is clear that he was also a personal

associate of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Incidentally, the Lord's name "Mahaprabhu" explicitly appears in

the Gopala-sahsra-nama-stotram, a part of the Sammohana-tantra said to

have been spoken by lord Siva to his consort Parvati.

 

MDd