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Sri:
Srimathe Ramanajaya nama:
Srimad Vara Vara Munaye nama:
Dear devotee,
I like to share with you what I have heard! The guru 
paramapara,be in the tradition of Advaita(Shankaracarya), 
SriVisishtadvaita(Ramanujacarya) and Dwaita(Madvacarya),starts ONLY 
from Narayana!!! The successive AcAryas/gurus differ in each 
tradition. This Ramanuja e-group addresses "Sri"Visishtadvaita. The 
immediate AcArya next to Narayana is "Sri" the Goddess of wealth,who 
is never separated from Narayana and hence Narayana is "always" 
addressed as Sriman Narayana. Hence the Tradition of 
SriRamanujacaraya is called as "Sri" sampradAyam/tradition.

Guadiya VaishNavism is a branch of Dwaitha and Sri 
Chaithanya Mahaprabhu belongs to 16th Century. Sri Madwacarya
(proponent of Dwaitha philosophy)starts with Narayana as the first 
AcArya. If this be the case,then why did Sri chaithanya mahaprabhu 
says only Krishna as the Lord? You can base your own conclusions or 
seek AcAryAs who have "digested" the vedas.

Shankaracaryas of Kanci Mutt always sign as "Narayana 
smrthi" and whenever they give speech they always end it 
as "Narayana,Narayana,Narayana". Remember that Bhagavad Gita is a 
Smrthi(secondary) text and only Shruthi is the "CORE/PRIMARY" text. 
So one has to do proper study of the vedas before making any 
conclusions. I have heard that Adi Shankara wrote his commentary on 
Brahmasutra based mainly on abhEda shruthis(nirguNa brahman) and he 
even left out so many passages that deal with nirguNa brahman. One 
can not afford to leave any passage or go out of shruthi to make 
commentary on the same. One has to consider the vedas/shruthis in its 
entirety otherwise one would come up with erroneous conclusions!

Although my hearthrob/favorite God is SriRama,this did not 
prevent me from realising that Sriman Narayana is EVERYTHING and 
other Gods namely SriRama,SriKrishna etc are only manifestations of 
this Supreme God. In nutshell,every quality found in the names of 
SriRama or SriKrishna are there in Sriman Narayana too but all the 
auspicious qualities in Sriman Narayana are not found in SriRama etc. 
If you know Mathematics,you can think it as a "one-many" 
map/function. The "one" represents Sriman Narayana and "many" 
represents SriRama or Sri Krishna etc...


->Vishnu
->->SriRama 
->->->SriKrishna 
Sriman Narayana ->->->->Srinivasa
->->->Vasudeva
->->Govinda
->"X"[you can fill it up with one of the 
thousand names of vishnu]

The above figure is only a rough example. You see that Sriman 
Narayana is related to Vishnu(& other Gods) which means whatever 
quality Vishnu has,Sriman Narayana has too. Same logic follows for 
all other names. On the contrary Govinda does not have all the 
qualities that Vishnu has. These two names will have "atleast" one 
quality which is not shared by both. Same is true with all other 
names appearing on the right. This clearly shows that Sriman Narayana 
is the Supreme God. I seek the forgiveness of bhAgavathas in case I 
have misinterpreted our tradition!

AzhvAr emperumAnAr jIyar thiruvadigaLE sharaNam
NC Nappinnai

Quote: Some books are to be tasted,some chewed and swallowed and some 
others have to be digested. - Francis Bacon 

Note: Vedas fall under the last category! 







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