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Mr krishna das • April 11, 2003 


--- "bharathradhekrishna.chennu"
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> what is the difference between gaudiya samparadaya
> and ramanuja 
> sampradaya.which sampradaya is useful in
> understanding lord vishnu in 
> less time. 
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Radhekrishna!

 Throughout the Baratadesa 9 different sampradayas or
traditions of vishnavism are being followed.They are
of :Sri
Adisankara,sriRamanuja,Madhva,chaitanyamahaprabhu,
Nimbarka,Hitha
Harivamsa,Vallabhacharya,Gnaneswara,Ramananda.
> Out of these the srivaishnava or Ramanuja cult is
oldest to the age of Alwars.the cult based on the life
experiences & teachings of 12 alwars as reflected in
their divine compositions in praise of vLord Vishnu
viz the Divyaprabandams which was nourished by the
commentories of acharyas of south india & propagated &
administered by Acharya sriRamanuja is Ramanuja
sampradaya or srivaishnavacult.The cult gains its
status thro the bhashyams done by Ramanuja on
Brahmasutras,Upanishads,& BagawatGeeta.
   The Gaudiya tradition is that started by
Cahitanyamahaprabu& that whicch is based on the life &
teachings of sri
krishnachaitanyamahaprabhu,commentories to Vedic &
puranic literatures & compositions of His disciplic
successors,viz Brindavana 6 Goswamis 7 others
,all belonging to the regions comprising
bengal,orissa,Bihar & some parts of u.p,the area
called as Gaudiya desa.the sampradaya gained its
religiuos & social status thro the commentories given
for the three vedantic works prasnotrathrayam by
Baladeva vidhya Bhushana.It was propagated & brought
easily to the public of modern age by Bhakthi vinoda
thakur,Bhakthisiddanda saraswathi & Srila
A.c.bakthivedanthaswami prabupada(Iskcon founder).
 The difference between ramanuja sampradaya & Gaudiya
sampradaya of mahaprabu is that in the latter one Lord
Krishna is conidered to be the supreme personality of
Godhead & Lord vishnu is regarded as His Amsa.whereas
in srivaisnavism Lord vishnu is supreme & krishna is
one of His avathara.But the significance of vishnu &
krishna is equally acknowledged in both.There are many
philosophical differences between these sampradayas
.But devotees may not go for those things.Devotees are
free to take the path of any of the sampradayas of
proper origin & good leadership Acharyaparampara of
their choice since all are equally good and
significant ones.Both are simple & essence of both
are:true devotion to the lord,Bhakthas,singing the
Glory of the lord & chanting His name.So both are
simple and easy to be followed.

      Radhekrishna!   




                              Krishnadas.A.s 


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