"On the purnima, the full moon day, the sun-god came downto the earth and said to demigods: I will take birth in Kali-yuga in Vrindavana and this brahmanawill execute favorable acts for the demigods. He will be born as a son of Madhava, named Madhuand follow the Vedic path.
Suta Gosvami said: Saying this the sun-god created a light from his body and sent it to Vrindavana. Attracting all the irreligious people with pleasing speech he gave them Vaishnavi-shakti or the spiritual energy of Lord Vishnu, the bestower of enjoyment and liberation. Thus hebecome famous, known as Madhvacarya." (Bhavishya Purana)
As Lord Krishna stresses in the Bhagavad-gita,the essence of all Vedic knowledge is that God is a person: "By all the Vedas I am to be known." But the spread of the Buddhist doctrine of ultimate voidness eclipsed this knowledge for a time, until the great teacher Sankara (A.D. 788-820) drove Buddhism out of India. Instead of saying "All is nothing," Sankara said "All is one." In other words, he upheld an all-pervasive spiritual reality, but said it was ultimately impersonal. Madhvacarya (and other Krishna-conscious spiritual masters like Ramanuja) soundly defeated this impersonalist view and at last reestablished that the Absolute Truth is Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
Even as a young boy Madhva was renowned as a scholar. When he was only five he received spiritual initiation, and when he was twelve he accepted sannyasa,the most renounced order of spiritual life. At that tender age Madhva gave up all family ties to travel the length and breadth of India in quest of spiritual knowledge.
Madhva showed his overwhelming physical and spiritual strength on still other occasions. While he was walking on the road a band of thugs attacked him, but he killed them all. Another time a tiger attacked Madhva's companion Satya Tirtha, but Madhva pulled the fierce animal off with his bare hands. People began to say his strength had no limit.
Madhvacharya's learning and devotion to Krishna were famous throughout India. His life's mission was to defeat the views of the impersonalist philosophers. They say that God's form is simply illusion (maya), and thus they are called Mayavadis. "Even if God was a person in the beginning," these people say, "He has distributed Himself throughout the creation and thus lost His individual identity." Madhvacharya smashed this monistic ("all-is-one") idea with the philosophy of shuddha-dvaita—pure dualism. He proved logically that God is always a person and is always distinct from His creation. As anyone can see, the sun is producing volumes of energy but remains the same sun. Similarly, a tree may produce many fruits, but it remains the same tree. Likewise, Lord Krishna produces the material world, but He Himself remains separate from it—He remains the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here is the real teaching of the Vedas.Thus, Madhvacharya 's teaching is called tattva-vada—tattva means "truth," and vada means "philosophy."
The Mayavadis go on to say that the soul's unique and individual identity is also an illusion—that in the end the soul will merge into an impersonal light. But Madhvacharya taught that the soul is actually the eternal servant of Krishna and that by practicing bhakti-yoga—devotional service—each of us can return to our original position in the spiritual world. Madhvacharya especially emphasized that even after the individual soul returns to the spiritual world, he and the Supreme Soul, Krishna, retain their separate identities. They do not become "one."
Madhva prepared the way for Lord Chaitanya, who appeared two centuries later in the same line of spiritual masters. Lord Chaitanya is the incarnation of Krishna who spread the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra throughout India and ordered His followers to spread it to every town and village in the world. To fulfill this order, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came to America in 1965 and founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Under his guidance we his disciples are carrying on this mission, but we must give all the credit to him and the other spiritual masters in the Brahma-Madhva-Gaudiya disciplic chain—including, of course, Madhvacharya.
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Swami Vivekanandaby vkendra28,954 views
@spraocs Sorry for cursing! I can assure you though I am very patient although I may be rough around the edges at times!
HermeticAlchemy 2 weeks ago
@spraocs Hey I was patient for 2 hours while I searched and then patient putting the vid together and uploading :p
ShaktipatSeer2 2 weeks ago
@HermeticAlchemy Your efforts are very much approciated.. but some of the words in your comment above are not appriciated.. Gaining patience is one of the learnings we get from our gurus and all these dharma sadhanas..
spraocs 1 month ago
It's actually not that hard to watch
spiritswalkwithme1 1 month ago
its seems great , but its hard to watch
mindtoonz262 8 months ago
whats wrong witht the movie?
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