My question is our paramparā, Bhāgavata-guru-paramparā or Dīkṣā-guru-paramparā? Please answer me, sorry for asking a question outside the subject matter. | Questions and answers

Author: Śacīputra Avatāra dāsa

Date: 2022-01-05

Jayapatākā Swami: Our guru-paramparā is Bhāgavata-paramparā.

That means whichever connection is stronger they do it.

Whichever relationship is stronger it is given.

In most cases it is dīkṣā

but in some cases it may be śikṣā.

Actually, all the cases are usually dīkṣā

but our sampradāya is given by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda.

And he saw that the dīkṣā-guru of Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura was giving preference to the brāhmaṇas.

The born brāhmaṇas. So Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura thought the guru was a jāthi-gosāñi.

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura had been educated by Siddha Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī

and gave much importance to this connection.

This way this is a Bhāgavata-paramparā.

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura took initiation from Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī.

By that way,

we are also dīkṣā-paramparā.

But we give importance to the Bhāgavata-paramparā.

That way since Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura took his initiation from Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī,

that way the other Vaiṣṇavas they accept Gaura Kiśora dāsa Bābājī.

So in that way we also have the dīkṣā-paramparā.

But the paramparā which is in our books

is the Bhāgavata-paramparā.

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