Looking for a verse - four sampradayas

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On 29 Aug 1999, Madana-mohana das wrote:

 

 

> 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):

 

Hare Krishna.

 

While I probably would not use this verse for standard preaching (for the

reasons that you mentioned - it's not found in any extant Padma Puraana

today), there is good reason to defend its existence. When Baladeva

Vidyabhuushana represented the Gaudiiya Vaishnavas at the historic conference

in Jaipur, he found that the validity of our sampradaaya was being

challenged *on the grounds that there were only four sampradaayas* as per the

Padma Puraana. So the idea of four sampradaayas must have been widely accepted

in North India at least.

 

But again, I doubt that this verse could be used by itself to invalidate any

sampradaaya.

 

yours,

 

krishna