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 Azhvar EmberumAnAr JeeyAr ThiruvadigalE Saranam http://www.vedics.net Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ramanuja/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: ramanuja-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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