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WORLD  Madhva Sampradaya Officially Rejects Ties With Iskcon BY NANDA KISORA DASA USA, May 14 (VNN) — Recently, on the official Madhva sampradaya website (http://www.dvaita.org/), a paper was released attacking the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya and rejecting it's links with Madhvacharya. This is the latest of many belligerent articles targeting ISKCON and the Gaudiya parampara written by followers of the Madhva sampradaya on their website. For many years now, members of this website have repeatedly denied the historical links between the Gaudiya Vaishnava sampradaya and that of Shrila Madhvacharya, claiming that many of the acharyas listed in the Gaudiya parampara never existed and that parampara-listings given by Shrila Baladeva Vidyabhusan and Shrila Kavi Karnapur are fraudulent. Some time ago they also wrote a scathing attack against Shrila Prabhupada's 'Bhagavad-gita As it Is'. The recent paper, which has been called an 'official statement' by the Madhvas, has been written by scholars of the Poornaprajna Vidyapeetha, Bangalore, an institution founded by Shri Vishvesa Tirtha Swamiji of Pejavar Math. This news may come as a surprise to most devotees since Pejavar Swami has always been seen as a loyal friend and supporter of ISKCON and other Gaudiya Vaishnava movements. Amongst other things, the new paper details the doctrinal differences between the Dvaita school of Madhva and the school of Achintyabheda-bheda Tattva of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Although it is an undeniable fact that both sampradaya's have major philosophical differences, the paper attacks the Gaudiyas by claiming that they have published 'falsehoods' and that their philosophical system 'is essentially not capable of being sustained in traditional disputation.'  Comment on this storyContact VNN about this storySend this story to a friend
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