Looking for a verse - four sampradayas

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> atah kalau bhavisyanti catvara sampradayinah

> sri-brahma-rudra-sanaka vaisnavah ksiti-pavanah

>

> The continuation gives the names of acaryas in Brahma sampradaya and the

> well-known verse 'sampradaya vihina ye mantras te nisphala matah.'

 

 

Here is the verse in full (by the way, it is not to be found anymore in

Padma-purana, and therefore is claimed to be a vaisnava interpolation by

some):

 

samprAdya-vihInA ye mantrAs te niSphalA matAH

atah kalau bhaviSyanti catvAraH sampradAyinaH

 

SrI-brahma-rudra-sanakA vaiSNavAH kSiti-pAvanAH

catvAras te kalau bhAvyA hy utkale puruSottamAt

 

rAmAnujaM SrI svIcakre madhvAcAryaM caturmukhaH

SrI viSNusvAmInaM rudro nimbAdityam catuHsanAH

 

Unless one is initiated by a bona-fide spiritual master in the disciplic

succession, the mantra he might have received is without any effect. For

this reason four Vaisnava disciplic successions, inaugurated by Laksmi-devi,

Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, and the four Kumaras, will appear in the holy place

of Jagannatha Puri, and purify the entire earth during the age of Kali.

Laksmi-devi chose Ramanujacarya to represent her disciplic succession. In

the same way Lord Brahma chose Madhvacarya, Lord Siva chose Visnu Svami, and

the four Kumaras chose Nimbarka. (quoted in Prameya-ratnavali by Baladeva

Vidyabhusana, 1.5-6)

 

Your servant,

Madana-mohana das