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Hare Krishna
I have read of many great Vaisnava philosophers, such as Sripad Ramanujacarya, Sripad Madhvacarya, Sripad Vallabhacarya, and Sripad Visnusvami. They all are from different schools of Vaisnavism. We are from Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's line (Gaudiya Vaisnavism). Lord Caitanya propagated the chanting of Hare Krishna Maha-Mantra. Why did Sripad Ramanujacarya propagate the chanting of "Om Namo Narayanaya"?
If we are all following the same teachings, why do we have different mantra's?
And why would the other Acarya's join different Sampradaya's? Why did they not all take shelter of this Brahma-Madhva Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya ?
Is it that the other 3 sampradayas are equivalent to Lord Caitanya's Sampradaya? Please instruct me on how to face this question.
Your Most Low Servant,
Bhakta David
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If we see the life of an ordinary person, we can see that the person is known to his family, friends, collegues by his different aspects. Like his mother has a motherly affection to him, and by love she call him by several adorable names. The same person exhibits different aspects when he is with his wife.The wife calls him with many loveable names. Again when the children returns from school they call out papa papa(father).Yet the same man is very much official when he is in meeting at office. His juniors calls him Boss.So in this way we can see even in the material world an ordinary person is known to several persons by different names and their relations is based on the intimacy level they
share.
So It is same for Lord also. Lord is Unlimited , he has innumerable forms and innumerable names. He deals with devotees the way that particular devotee desires. Some want him as a master, some as husband, some as friend and so on. so each person is attracted by some aspect and feature of the unlimited Lord, thats why they love to call Lord by those name which are meaningful to the relationship they have with Lord.As Lord himself saying in BG
BG 4.11: As all surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly. Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Pṛthā.
Further more Vishnu has 1000 names ref.Vishu Sahasranama. Narayana, Govinda all are names of the same supreme Lord Krishna Only. So it doesn't matter whether Sri Sampradaya using "Om Namo Narayana" or Nimbarkya's "Radhe Shyama Radhe Shyama"...all is dedicated to Krishna only. So if some one is following other sampradaya than "Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya" then there is no issue they are just attracted to Narayana , Vishnu feature of the Lord. They will also reach to Vaikuntha.But we Gaudiya's love Krishna beacuse Krishna is more loveable than other features of Him (like Narayana etc). And Hare Krishna Mahamantra is madhyurya mantra, so when we chant it we are in direct communion with Krishna. Thats why it is best.
Hope it will help
Your aspiring servant
||Krishna Consciousness is light rest are nescience||
mataji,is the 4 sampradayas are aimed to the people of 4 regions?shall i,a south indian malayali follow sriramanuja? what is your views on kulasekhara azhvar,other azhvars, ramanujan ezhuthachan,poonthanam,melpathoor and such devotees of guruvayoorappan(krishna)?
Hare Krishna. Dandavat Pranam.All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hare krishna, M not Mataji....:)
There is no such division on the basis of region regarding worship of Krishna. All the Azhvars were great devotee of Lord , and Ramanujacharya is one of the greatest Acharya ever in Vaishnava parampara. Sri vaishnava worships Krishna in his Narayana (VaikunthaPati) form in awe and reverence and we Gaudiya Vaishnavas worship sweet Krishna in Goloka Vrindavana. So its upto you which form of Krishna you are inlclined too.
But Krishna in Goloka Vrindavana is more sweet than any other form of him that he exhibits in other Vaikuntha planets. In Goloka devotee can play with Krishna all day long as a cowherd boy, or he/she can be one of the Shakhis of Krishna , devotee can also get Krishna as their child in Goloka. Where as in other plantes of Vaikuntha the only relationship with Lord and devotee is of Master and Servant.
So any specific form of Krishna we adore we get the specific planet in Vaikuntha realm accordingly. So its depends on our nature to which form we are constitionally situated to execute devotional service.
Your aspiring servant
Hari Bol