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ple how to become sanatha-jivitam. Live on your master's... Everyone
is living at the cost of master, but foolishly. Ahankara-vimudhatma

kartaham i manyate (BG 3.27). They are living at the cost of the mas-
ter, but they will not accept. This is the disease. (break) ...natural life,
sanatha-jivitam. From the birth the child is sanatha, parents. Where is
the possibility of living independently? That is not possible.
Dr. Patel: Yamunacarya was sishya or guru of Ramanujacarya?
Prabhupada: Ramanujacarya.
Dr. Patel: Ramanujacarya was guru or sishya?
Prabhupada: Yes, guru.
Dr. Patel: Guru. I think Vishnu Svami was his sishya.
Prabhupada: No. Vishnu Svami-sampradaya, different. That is Rudra-
sampradaya. And Ramanujacarya is Sri-sampradaya. The Vallabhacar-

yas, they belong to Vishnu Svami. We belong to Madhva-sampradaya.
Four acaryas.
Yasoma nandana: Who was the originator of Sri-sampradaya?
Prabhupada: Hm? Lakshmiji. Pada-sevanam. Sravanam kirtanam vish-
nu smarana pada-sevanam. Lakshmiji is always engaged in massaging
the feet of Lord Vishnu.
Yasoma nandana: Ramanujacarya is the biggest in line?
Prabhupada: Yes. Hare Krishna. Jaya.

Ramanujacarya, the stalwart protagonist to defeat Mayavadis
Prabhupada says that Ramanujacarya was the greatest acarya among
the Sri Vaisnavas and the most stalwart protagonist to defeat Maya-
vadi philosophy. There are mul ple examples that substan ate this
claim
75-11-20 - BOMBAY - November 20, 1975 – Morning walk con-
versa on with Dr. Patel and Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupada: “Amongst the Vaishnavas, he was the greatest acarya,
Ramanujacarya. And to kill the Mayavadis, he was the ablest person,
Ramanujacarya. S ll in South India, the Mayavadis and the Ramanujas,
they have talks, and the Mayavadis are defeated always.”

Le er to V. S. R. Chakravar -- Bombay 22 November, 1974:

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