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Madhva Sampradaya Officially Rejects Ties With Iskcon

 

BY NANDA KISORA DASA

 

USA, May 14 (VNN) — Recently, on the official Madhva sampradaya website

(http://www.dvaita.org/), a paper was released attacking the Gaudiya

Vaishnava sampradaya and rejecting it's links with Madhvacharya.

 

This is the latest of many belligerent articles targeting ISKCON and the

Gaudiya parampara written by followers of the Madhva sampradaya on their

website.

 

For many years now, members of this website have repeatedly denied the

historical links between the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya and that of Shrila

Madhvacharya, claiming that many of the acharyas listed in the Gaudiya

parampara never existed and that parampara-listings given by Shrila Baladeva

Vidyabhusan and Shrila Kavi Karnapur are fraudulent.

 

Some time ago they also wrote a scathing attack against Shrila Prabhupada's

'Bhagavad-gita As it Is'. The recent paper, which has been called an

'official statement' by the Madhvas, has been written by scholars of the

Poornaprajna Vidyapeetha, Bangalore, an institution founded by Shri Vishvesa

Tirtha Swamiji of Pejavar Math. This news may come as a surprise to most

devotees since Pejavar Swami has always been seen as a loyal friend and

supporter of ISKCON and other Gaudiya Vaishnava movements.

 

Amongst other things, the new paper details the doctrinal differences

between the Dvaita school of Madhva and the school of Achintyabheda-bheda

Tattva of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Although it is an undeniable fact that

both sampradaya's have major philosophical differences, the paper attacks

the Gaudiyas by claiming that they have published 'falsehoods' and that

their philosophical system 'is essentially not capable of being sustained in

traditional disputation.'

 

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On May 17, 2001 " Janardhan Krishnarao " <vidyajan

wrote:

 

 

 

> http://www.vnn.org/world/WD0105/WD14-6750.html

>

> The Vaishnava News Network (VNN) is an independent network of collaborating

> Vaishnavas worldwide providing the world Vaishnava community with news and

> forums of communication.

 

> May 14, 2001 VNN6750 Comment on this story

>

> Madhva Sampradaya Officially Rejects Ties With Iskcon

>

> BY NANDA KISORA DASA

>

> USA, May 14 (VNN) — Recently, on the official Madhva sampradaya website

> (http://www.dvaita.org/), a paper was released attacking the Gaudiya

> Vaishnava sampradaya and rejecting it's links with Madhvacharya.

 

The exact URL is:

 

http://www.dvaita.org/list/list_40/msg00020.html

 

To access this, you will need

userid: dvaita

password: dvaita

 

> Some time ago they also wrote a scathing attack against Shrila Prabhupada's

> 'Bhagavad-gita As it Is'.

 

This article is at:

 

http://www.dvaita.org/shaastra/gita/prabhupada_review.html

 

Regards,

 

Meera Tadipatri

 

> The recent paper, which has been called an 'official statement'

> by the Madhvas, has been written by scholars of the

> Poornaprajna Vidyapeetha, Bangalore, an institution founded by

> Shri Vishvesa Tirtha Swamiji of Pejavar Math.