{"id":7513,"date":"2022-02-14T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T06:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T15:43:07","slug":"from-who-nityananda-took-initiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/from-who-nityananda-took-initiation\/","title":{"rendered":"From who Nityananda took initiation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">He was Halayudha in Krsnalila. According to Premavilasa 24, #Nityananda was a disciple of Isvara Puri. Sri Jiva states that Nityananda was a disciple of Sankarsana Puri who was a disciple of Madhavendra Puri. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-size: 16px; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;\">But Bhakti Ratnakara states that Nityananda took initiation from Laksmipati who was the guru of Madhavendra Puri. If this were the case then Nityananda would have been the great-guru of Lord Caitanya and a friendly relationship could not have existed between the two. According to Caitanya Bhagavata. Madhavendra Puri dealt with Nityananda as a friend, while the latter showed guru-like reverence to the former.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-37836 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/nityananda-darshan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/nityananda-darshan.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/nityananda-darshan-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He was Halayudha in Krsnalila. According to Premavilasa 24, #Nityananda was a disciple of Isvara Puri. Sri Jiva states that Nityananda was a disciple of Sankarsana Puri who was a disciple of Madhavendra Puri. But Bhakti &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/from-who-nityananda-took-initiation\/\" aria-label=\"From who Nityananda took initiation?\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-area2"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 20:21:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}