{"id":77446,"date":"2025-11-27T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=77446"},"modified":"2025-11-26T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:45:16","slug":"the-parampara-system-of-spiritual-succession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-parampara-system-of-spiritual-succession\/","title":{"rendered":"The Parampara System of Spiritual Succession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Disciple-Succession.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-77447 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Disciple-Succession-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Disciple-Succession-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Disciple-Succession.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In the tenth section, the Gosvami Maharaja says just this and recommends that everyone study the Vedic texts, adding an element of fundamental importance, namely, that the Vedas have been transmitted from time immemorial through an unbroken line of spiritual succession. This refers to the well-known &#8220;parampara system&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">In principle, divine knowledge generally cannot be the result of the enlightenment of a single person. If we accept the words of anyone who informs us that they have had a spiritual vision, it is very likely that we are victims of a cheater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">The revelation of the Truth is produced by the teaching received, addressing an authentic teacher who in turn has learned it from an equally authentic guru. In this way the truth can descend intact to this day. No educated person will accept a teacher or a philosophy that does not come from a recognized parameter. It is the first (though certainly not the only) quality required of a spiritual master, from whom one wishes to receive the knowledge of Krsna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">In the twelfth section, Jiva Gosvami presents five references from the Brahma Sutra (or Vedanta Sutra), the Bhagavata Purana and the Maha-bharata on the importance of Vedic knowledge as a source of perfect knowledge. But of course, these are just a few of the numerous testimonies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">This is a section of the book \u201cTattva Sandarbha\u201d, in English.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #0000ff;\">To buy the complete book,<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kadachaeditions.com\/art\/tattva-sandarbha-english\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">click <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the tenth section, the Gosvami Maharaja says just this and recommends that everyone study the Vedic texts, adding an element of fundamental importance, namely, that the Vedas have been transmitted from time immemorial through an &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/the-parampara-system-of-spiritual-succession\/\" aria-label=\"The Parampara System of Spiritual Succession\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":77447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,189],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-77446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","category-kadacha-eng","tag-tattva-sandarbha-eng"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-24 08:44:57","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\/77446","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\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}