harE krShNa! AzhwArgaL thiruvadigaLE sharaNam! jay shrIlA praBhupAdha!
Dear Devotee,
It is so nice that you have bought this good point here. Srila Prabhupada uses many times shrI yamunAchArya's verses in preachings and praises shrI rAmAnujAchArya. And no doubt that before preaching he used to say many times "shrI rAmAnujAchArya ki jai".
And this is the true spirit of a devotee of lord viShNu or vaiShNava. First we must be clean from designations such as Indian, Hindu, Muslim, American, etc. and must be able to surrender to ANY VAISHNAVA. Not that, "Oh! I belong to goudIya sampradhAyam. I don't respect shrI sampradhAyam devotees." No. This attitude is condemned by vaiShNavAchAryas every where. One must respect any type of vaiShNava even if he is a Muslim ( e.g. haridhAs thAkUr, a perfect vaiShNava who chanted every day 3 lakh times of harE krShNa manthram though he was a Muslim).
And to point out a fact:
In my life (as far as my knowledge), I have seen only 2 bad-blasting masters in HUGE and converted human beings into vaiShNavas. They are:
One is rAmAnujAchArya (who converted 1000 jains to vaiShNavAs in a shot + so many others)
Second is Srila Prabhupada (who converted 1000s of hippies in America to vaiShNavas + all over the globe in just 12 years, i.e. from age 69 to 82 years, without any magics, gimmicks, etc.).
Hats off to these two, not just vaiShNavas, but our great spiritual mothers.
To know more about Srila Prabhupada, visit this URL (a short movie): http://www.krishnalilas.com/dloads/edi1jan06/SrilaPrabhupadaTKP.swf
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