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The Line of Disciplic Succession
Institute for Gaudiya Vaishnavism

THE BRAHMA MADHVA GAUDIYA SAMPRADAYA

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"This supreme science was thus received
through the chain of disciplic succession..." (Bg 4.2)

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Veda Vyas the compiler of the Veda's and Vedic Literature, explaining this science to his disciple Sanjaya. Veda Vyas was the 4th Acharya in this disciplic succession.

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THE LINE OF DISCIPLIC SUCCESSION


1. KRSNA

2. BRAHMA
3. NARADA
4. VYASA
5. MADHVA
6. PADMANABHA
7. NRHARI
8. MADHAVA
9. AKSOBHYA
10. JAYA TIRTHA
11. JNANASINDHU
12. DAYANIDHI
13. VIDYANIDHI
14. RAJENDRA
15. JAYADHARMA
16. PURUSOTTAMA
17. BRAHMANYA TIRTHA
18. BYASA TIRTHA
19. LAKSMIPATI
20. MADHAVENDRA PURI
21. ISVARA PURI (Nityananda, Advaita)
22. LORD CAITANYA
23. RUPA (Svarupa, Sanatana)
24. RAGHUNATHA, JIVA
25. KRSNADASA
26. NAROTTAMA
27. VISVANATHA
28. (Baladeva Vidyabhusana) JAGANNATHA
29. BHAKTIVINODA
30. GAURAKISORA
31. BHAKTISIDDHANTA SARASVATI
32. A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI
33. BHAKTIVEDANTA NARAYAN SWAMI

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" I offer my respectful obeisances to my Spiritual Master, who has forced open my eyes from the darkness of ignorance, with the torchlight of knowledge."