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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 succes-
sion of Madhvacarya is known as the Brahma-Vaisnava sect; that is the sect com-
ing down from Lord Brahma. Consequently the Tattvavadis, or followers of
Madhvacarya, do not accept the incident of Lord Brahma’s illusion, which is
recorded in the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam. Srila Madhvacarya has pur-
posefully avoided commenting on that portion of Srimad-Bhagavatam in which
brahma-mohana, the illusion of Lord Brahma, is mentioned. Srila Madhavendra
Purl was one of the dcdaryas in the Tattvavada disciplic succession, and he
established the ultimate goal of transcendentalism to be attainment of pure devo-
tional service, love of Godhead. Those Vaisnavas belonging to the Gaudiya-
sampradaya, the disciplic succession following $ri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, are dis-
tinct from the Tattvavadis, although they belong to the same Tattvavada
sampradaya. The followers of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are therefore known as
the Madhva-Gaudiya-sampradaya.

The word pasandi refers to those who are opposed to pure devotional service.
In particular, these are the Mayavadis, the impersonalists. A definition of pasandiis
given in the Hari-bhakti-vildsa (1.73), wherein it is stated:

yas tu narayanam devam
brahma-rudradi-daivataih
samatvenaiva vikseta
sa padsandi bhaved dhruvam

A pasandi is one who thinks that the Supreme Lord Narayana, the Personality of
Godhead, is on the same level with the demigods headed by Lord Brahma and
Lord Siva. The devotee never considers Lord Narayana to be on the same platform
with Lord Brahma and Lord Siva. The Madhvacdrya-sampradaya and Ramanuja-
sampradaya are mainly worshipers of Lord Ramacandra, although the $ri
Vaisnavas are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Narayana and Laksmi and the
Tattvavadis are supposed to be worshipers of Lord Krsna. At present, in most of
the monasteries belonging to the Madhva-sampradaya, Lord Ramacandra is
worshiped.

In the book known as Adhydtma-ramayana, there are statements in Chapters
Twelve to Fifteen about the worship of the Deities Sri Ramacandra and Sita. There
it is stated that during Lord Ramacandra’s time, there was a brahmana who took a
vow refusing to accept breakfast until he saw Lord Ramacandra. Sometimes, due
to business, Lord Ramacandra was absent from His capital for a full week and
could not be seen by citizens during that time. Because of his vow, the brahmana
could not take even a drop of water during that week. Later, after eight or nine
days, when the brahmana could see Lord Ramacandra personally, he would break
his fast. Upon observing the brahmana’s rigid vow, Lord Sri Ramacandra ordered
