24 Facts About Nimbarka Sampradaya

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Nimbarka Sampradaya, known as the Hamsa Sampradaya, and Sanakadi Sampradaya, is one of the four Sampradayas.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya is known as Kumara Sampradaya, Hamsa Sampradaya, and Sanakadi Sampradaya.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya is conventionally dated at the 7th or 11th century, but this dating has been questioned, suggesting that Nimbarka Sampradaya lived somewhat earlier than Shankara, in the 6th or 7th century CE.

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Malkovsky, following Satyanand, notes that in Bhandarkar's own work it is clearly stated that his dating of Nimbarka Sampradaya was an approximation based on an extremely flimsy calculation; yet most scholars chose to honour his suggested date, even until modern times.

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In Hinduism, the first guru of the Nimbarka Sampradaya is Lord Sri Hansa Bhagwan, who himself is one of the twenty-four incarnations of Lord Vishnu.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya is based on Nimbarka's Bhedabheda philosophy, duality and nonduality at the same time, or dualistic non-dualism.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya equally emphasises both difference and non-difference, as against Ramanuja, who makes difference subordinate to non-difference, in as much as, for him cit and acit do not exist separately from Brahman, but are its body or attributes.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya accepts parinamavada, the idea that the world is a real transformation of Brahman, to explain the cause of animate and inanimate world, which he says exist in a subtle form in the various capacities, which belong to Brahman in its natural condition.

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But, Purusottamacarya of the Nimbarka Sampradaya school has, in his Vedantaratna-manjusa, described acit aprakrta as the material cause of the dhama of Brahman and the bodies and ornaments etc.

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10.

Nimbarka Sampradaya became the first Krishnaite tradition in late medieval time.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya refers to five methods to salvation, namely karma ; vidya ; upasana or dhyana ; prapatti ; Gurupasatti .

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12.

Sri Nimbarka Sampradaya made the "Bhasya" of the Brahmasutra on his Dvaitadvaita Vedanta in his famous book "Vedanta Parijata Sourabha".

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Nimbarka Sampradaya was given the salagrama deity known as Sri Sarvesvara that was handed down through time it is believed from Nimbarka himself.

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14.

Nimbarka Sampradaya anointed twelve of his senior disciples to lead missions throughout the land.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya established over 52 temples in Punjab, Haryana and Vraja during his lifetime; his current followers are found mostly in, Haryana, Punjab, Bengal, Rajasthan, Orissa, Assam, Sikkim, Bihar, other regions in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, in significant numbers in Nepal.

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16.

Nimbarka Sampradaya was buried in Ekasan for six months and had nothing to eat even though he was not in the grave.

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17.

Nimbarka Sampradaya's guru started teaching him astanga yoga, all kinds of mantras and their application method with Hatha Yoga.

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18.

Nimbarka Sampradaya started chanting that seed mantra with great devotion.

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19.

Nimbarka Sampradaya saw some miracles of Sri Sri Kathia Babaji Maharaj[4] but could not be completely without doubt.

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20.

Nimbarka Sampradaya saw Sri Sri Ramdas Kathia Babaji Maharaj coming towards Akash Marg and in a short time he came down to him on that roof.

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21.

Nimbarka Sampradaya has helped ordinary Hindus who are not to establish temples overseas.

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22.

Nimbarka Sampradaya has facilitated major festivals at the Hindu Sabha Mandir in Brampton, Canada.

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23.

Nimbarka Sampradaya established the Mandir at the birth site of Sri Nimbarkacarya in Mungi Village, Paithan, Maharashtra in 2005.

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Nimbarka Sampradaya is the current leader of the Sampradaya, who worships the salagrama deity known as Sri Sarvesvara.

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