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tempt to defeat their philosophy of impersonalism. Generally, they establish the supremacy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Actually the disciplic succession of Madhvācārya is known as the Brahma-Vaiṣṇava sect; that is the sect coming down from Lord Brahmā. Consequently the Tattvavādīs, or followers of Madhvācārya, do not accept the incident of Lord Brahmā's illusion, which is recorded in the Tenth Canto of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam . Śrīla Madhvācārya has purposefully avoided commenting on that portion of  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam  in which  brahma-mohana , the illusion of Lord Brahmā, is mentioned. Śrīla Mādhavendra Purī was one of the  ācāryas  in the Tattvavāda disciplic succession, and he established the ultimate goal of transcendentalism to be attainment of pure devotional service, love of Godhead. Those Vaiṣṇavas belonging to the Gauḍīya-sampradāya, the disciplic succession following Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, are distinct from the Tattvavādīs, although they belong to the same Tattvavāda  sampradāya . The followers of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are therefore known as the Madhva-Gauḍīya-sampradāya.
The word  pāṣaṇḍī  refers to those who are opposed to pure devotional service. In particular, these are the Māyāvādīs, the impersonalists. A definition of  pāṣaṇḍī  is given in the  Hari-bhakti-vilāsa  (1.73), wherein it is stated:
yas tu nārāyaṇaṁ devaṁ brahma-rudrādi-daivataiḥ samatvenaiva vikṣeta sa pāṣaṇḍī bhaved dhruvam
A pāṣaṇḍī  is one who thinks that the Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa, the Personality of Godhead, is on the same level with the demigods headed by Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva. The devotee never considers Lord Nārāyaṇa to be on the same platform with Lord Brahmā and Lord Śiva. The Madhvācārya-sampradāya and Rāmānuja-sampradāya are mainly worshipers of Lord Rāmacandra, although the Śrī Vaiṣṇavas are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Nārāyaṇa and Lakṣmī and the Tattvavādīs are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Kṛṣṇa. At present, in most of the monasteries belonging to the Madhva-sampradāya, Lord Rāmacandra is worshiped.
In the book known as  Adhyātma-rāmāyaṇa , there are statements in Chapters Twelve to Fifteen about the worship of the Deities Śrī Rāmacandra and Sītā. There it is stated that during Lord Rāmacandra’s time, there was a  brāhmaṇa  who took a vow refusing to accept breakfast until he saw Lord Rāmacandra. Sometimes, due to business, Lord Rāmacandra was absent from His capital for a full week and could not be seen by citizens during that time. Because of his vow, the  brāhmaṇa  could not take even a drop of water during that week. Later, after eight or nine days, when the  brāhmaṇa  could see Lord Rāmacandra personally, he would break his fast. Upon observing the  brāhmaṇa’s  rigid vow, Lord Śrī Rāmacandra ordered