1970 - Prabhupada

#25-3Sannyasa InitiationLA-2-70dd--5rupa kalpanah.Because we cannot concentrate our mind in impersonaltherefore they say, "Imagine some form." They think that Krsna isimaginat ion. Yes. (laughter) That is their Mayavada. Krsna waspersonally present and He killed all the demons. Still, these demonssays imagination. That is demonic. Therefore we do not agree withthem.Dayananda: "In other words, impersonalists cannot have any faithin the Supreme Personality of Godhead and they prefer to merge intothe impersonal Brahman effulgence.In the Srimad-Bhagavatam we donot find any mention of ekanda (sic) sannyasa. This tridanda sannyasais accepted therefore as standard.Bhagavatam as the supreme authority.Lord Caitanya accepts Srimad­Under these circumstances,persons wh o accept Lord Caitanya as ekandi (sic) sannyasi are mistaken.So following the footsteps of Lord Caitanya still the tridandisannyasis are in existence.Keeping the sacred thread and sikhaintact, distinct from the Mayavadi sannyasis, Mayavadi ekandi sannyasis,who give up the sacred thread and sikha.They have no inclinationto render service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Beingvery much disgusted by the materialistic way of life,they do notunderstand the purpose of the sannyasa order.strictly followers of the Vaisnava principles,But those who arethey do not acceptthe Hayavadi way of sannyasa. In the sect of Lord Caitanya, themost venerable learned scholar known as Gadadhara Pandit Gosvfuiaccepted this tridandi sannyasa order and he offered this facilityto his disciple known as Sri Madhva-upadhyaya. This t-iadhvacaryais the origi n of the Vallabhacarya sect.One of the Six Gosvamis,Gopal Bhatta Gosvami,who is the authority of Vaisnava regulations,