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| The Four Sampradayas |
In the Garga Samhita Canto 10, chapter 61, verses 23, 24, 25, 26 it is written:
vamanas ca vidih sesah sanako visnu-vakyatah
dharmartha-hetave caite bhavisyanti dvijah kalau
visnusvami vamnangsa-statha madhvastu brahmanah
ramanujastu sesanga nimbaditya sanakasya ca
ete kalau yuge bhavyah sampradaya-pravartakah
samvatsare vikramasya catvarah ksiti-pavanah
sampradaya-vihina ye mantraste nisphalah smritah
tasmacca gamanang hyasti sampradaye narairapi
TRANSLATION
Vamana, Brahma, Ananta Sesha and Sanaka Kumara will appear as brahmanas by the order of Visnu, for the
preservation of eternal righteousness in kali yuga.
Visnu Swami, Madhvacarya, Ramanuja and Nimbaditya will appear respectively as a portion of Vamana, Brahma,
Ananta Sesha and Sanaka Kumara.
These saviors will be the founders of the four authorized and empowered spiritual channels of disciplic
succession in the period calculated from the reign of King Vikrama in 54 B.C. subsequently through the present
era of kali yuga.
These four authorized and empowered spiritual channels of disciplic succession are to be fully accepted by all
beings; as any word, combination of words or formulation of sounds frequencies, invoked or addressed, audible
or inaudible, secret or revealed, ancient or contemporary, outside their auspices prove to have absolutely no
efficacy.
sampradaya: authorized and empowered spiritual channel of disciplic succession
vikramasya: the solar year calculated from 54 B.C., the reign of King Vikrama and subsequently through the
present and onwards into the future.
mantraste: any word, combination of words or formulation of sound frequencies, audible or inaudible, secret or
revealed, ancient or contemporary used to invoke or address the Supreme Lord.
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vamanas ca vidih sesah sanako visnu-vakyatah
dharmartha-hetave caite bhavisyanti dvijah kalau
visnusvami vamnangsa-statha madhvastu brahmanah
ramanujastu sesanga nimbaditya sanakasya ca
ete kalau yuge bhavyah sampradaya-pravartakah
samvatsare vikramasya catvarah ksiti-pavanah
sampradaya-vihina ye mantraste nisphalah smritah
tasmacca gamanang hyasti sampradaye narairapi
TRANSLATION
Vamana, Brahma, Ananta Sesha and Sanaka Kumara will appear as brahmanas by the order of Visnu, for the
preservation of eternal righteousness in kali yuga.
Visnu Swami, Madhvacarya, Ramanuja and Nimbaditya will appear respectively as a portion of Vamana, Brahma,
Ananta Sesha and Sanaka Kumara.
These saviors will be the founders of the four authorized and empowered spiritual channels of disciplic
succession in the period calculated from the reign of King Vikrama in 54 B.C. subsequently through the present
era of kali yuga.
These four authorized and empowered spiritual channels of disciplic succession are to be fully accepted by all
beings; as any word, combination of words or formulation of sounds frequencies, invoked or addressed, audible
or inaudible, secret or revealed, ancient or contemporary, outside their auspices prove to have absolutely no
efficacy.
sampradaya: authorized and empowered spiritual channel of disciplic succession
vikramasya: the solar year calculated from 54 B.C., the reign of King Vikrama and subsequently through the
present and onwards into the future.
mantraste: any word, combination of words or formulation of sound frequencies, audible or inaudible, secret or
revealed, ancient or contemporary used to invoke or address the Supreme Lord.
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