How Madhvacarya met Vysasadeva at Badrikashrama two times

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FIRST MEETING

 

Madhva's next tour was to Badarinatha, high in the Himalayas. In

Badarinatha he met Srila Vyasadeva, the author of the four Vedas and their

voluminous supplementary literature. In preparation for this meeting, Madhva

had observed complete silence and complete fasting for forty-eight days. He

learned the full meaning of the Vedanta-sutra, the distilled essence of the

Vedic wisdom, from the transcendental author himself and promised to write a

commentary on the sutras, one that would be faithful to Srila Vyasadeva's

original intent and purport. By the time he came down from the Himalayas,

his commentary, Sutra-bhasya, was completed.

 

SECOND MEETING

 

While still in his twenties, Srila Madhvacarya undertook a second tour to

Badarinatha, this one after he had founded Sri Krsna Matha in Udupi. On the

way, a tyrannical king pressed Madhva's party into digging a reservoir for

the city of Devagiri. Madhva, however, persuaded the king himself to take

part in the digging and then left with his party. The pilgrims had many

other hardships and adventures, but Madhva always saved them with his quick

thinking and mystic powers. In Badarinatha, Madhva again heard from Vyasa,

who gave him eight sacred Salagrama stones.