Friday 27 December 2013

True to Madhavacarya's teachings

Radhanath Swami relates:

A few years ago, it was the 700th birthday of Madhavacarya.
There was a big big celebration at his birth place, Pancakara-ksetra, near Udupi. All the big big acaryas and gurus of the Madhavacarya sampradaya were assembled. In South India they are considered the most strict and authorised vaisnavas. I think in 700 years not a single of their sannyasi has ever fallen down! They’re very very strict and very learned scholars. There was a raised platform and all of these acaryas were there. And there were thousands and thousands and thousands of their disciples and people who were gathered. The biggest most famous and influential of the acaryas spoke.

So he first spoke the glories of Madhavacarya. And then he began to glorify Srila Prabhupada! He said, “Madhavacarya’s teachings never left the shores of India until his Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada took them to the whole world. He has taken the pure teachings of the Bhagavat and the Bhagavad Gita to every continent; practically to every city in the entire planet earth. And he has not in any way compromised the purest teachings of Sanatana Dharma.”

He went on and on, and he concluded by saying, pointing to every other Madhava acaryas on the stage, “All of us put together, if we are all made into one person, we do not equal one grain of dust at the lotus feet of even a single one of Srila Prabhupada’s disciples who are spreading this message all over the world!”

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