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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