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Jai Sri krishna, I was just browsing through the one of the latest 
Editions of Back to Godhead (the ISKCON magazine) and i came across 
this following article (see below for link), which talks about the 
deep appreciation the founder guru of ISKCON had for our Sri Ramanuja. 

Despite several differences in apsects of philosophy between sri and 
gaudiya sampradaya (which this article mentions) Sri Bhakthivedanta 
swami Prabhupada is always mentioning the greatness of Sri sampradaya 
In his books and he often makes comments which show his humble 
attitude to Sri Ramanuja and gives Him the credit for being one of the 
first to defeat Mayavada and preach Vaishnavism. In fact He even 
transalated Mukunda mala stotram and wrote a comentry on it.  I can 
recall reading a recorded conversation where Prabhupada explains the 
greatness of the GitaBashya by Sri Ramanuja.  

It is interesting to see that there are also some similarities in the 
lives of Prabhpada and Sri Ramanuja.  Such as they both showed great 
mercy in preaching Bhagavath-bhakthi and saw to distiction of race, 
caste etc..., Ramanuja shouting ashtaksari from the temple gopuram and 
Prabhupada preaching to melechas in the west (which is godbrothers did 
not want to do).  Both these acharayas risked their lives to save us 
souls!  Ramanuja ascaped plots to kill him and Prabhupada suvived 2 
heartattacks on his journey to the USA.  

   I want to share this article with the rest of you on this forum as 
i beleive that it was Sri Prabhupada, his books and his devotees who 
bought me to your association. It was they that spoke of the greatness 
of purity of the teachings of Sri Ramanuja.  Despite being a staunch 
Gaudiya, Prabhupada is stilla able to give a message universal to all 
Vaishnavs.

here is the link-  http://btg.krishna.com/main.php?id=851.

(By the way when is the actual date for Sri Ramanuja Jayanthi???  Is 
this festival calculated by a tithi or Nakshatra??)
Jai Sri krishna








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