Talk:Gaudiya Vaishnavism

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The following text was removed from the Krishna article; it would be better placed here somewhere -

Krishna is revered as the Supreme Personality of Godhead by devotees, not just as a demigod, but as the primal eternal force. Thus many believe that Hinduism in fact is a monotheist religion, since all other gods and demigods are seen as expansions of Krishna. Devotees believe that by worshiping Krishna with determination and faith, "Engage your mind in always thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me" (Krishna tells Arjuna during the Kurushetra war- Bagavadgita), one is able to transcend the contaminating materialistic influences of life and finally attain moksha (freedom from the eternal cycle of birth and death). This is the essence of the Vedas and other Hindu spiritual texts.

Imc 22:21, 16 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

This sounds like it was cut and pasted from one of Prabhupada's books. Runa

Gaudiya Math

Let's try to keep this article an article on the entire Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, there is a separate entry for Gaudiya Math. If you haven't researched the historical issues discussed, please don't go reverting or changing what I've written, discuss first here. Raga 10:59, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest merging the section on Gaudiya Matha under the actual Gaudiya Matha entry that looks pretty stub. --Raga 12:58, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Tagged for rewrite

I tagged the article for re-write. It's a mess. It has no comprehensible structure. Raga 11:42, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Organization listings

"SKCM of BV Puri duplicated, already listed under Gaudiya Math"

So is ISKCON. Yet your edit included ISKCON, as well. Siyavash 12:32, 18 May 2006 (UTC) Ah, the subheader within this article, I thought you meant the seperate article. No big deal. Siyavash 12:41, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Overall, there's unnecessary repetition we need to address. --Raga 12:51, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History

Please note that the "theory of decline" is a claim by the Gaudiya Math, and is not agreed on by the rest of the tradition. As you can see from my 17th-18th century description, the tradition was alive and vibrant. I have then changed, "Gaudiya Vaishnava history asserts" to "Gaudiya Math historians assert".

I am copying from my article on history at Gaudiya.Com. Consider reading the text there in its entirety. Raga 12:48, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There needs to be an entry "The time of Sri Chaitanya" that describes the times of the first generation of the movement. -- Raga 13:02, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested headings

The first section on comparative Vaishnava theology needs to be moved further down. It's also pretty messy.

The following headings need to be added:

Theology

There's already an article for Gaudiya_Vaishnava_theology - seems to be largely copied from Gaudiya.Com and deals with history, there's hardly theology there at all.

Religious practice

(suggest an outline of the five main aspects of sadhana)

Holy places

Vraja, Navadwip, Puri

What else? ---Raga 12:57, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Raga - That sounds like a much better layout format. Do you think we could merge the good info from Gaudiya_Vaishnava_theology and re-direct the page here?

New headings:

Philosophy and Theology or just Gaudiya Philosophy as a section?

- dealing with acintya-bheda-bheda and other points etc... The comparative section is a mess, you're right. Maybe there could be some comparison section near the bottom of the page. Also there's little mention of any scriptures in the article at the moment, not even pointers... I'll have a think about anything else that might be a good idea. Ys, GourangaUK 14:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I apologize for dropping out of Wikipedia and Gaudiya Vaishnava / Hinduism related articles for the time being; I'm working on a separate GV-themed encyclopaedia that takes all the time I can put into work like this. --Raga 15:52, 28 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]