Originally Posted by
sambya
well, this has been a question that has been lingering on in my mind for long without any satisfactory answers .
here's the doubt----
sri chaitanya mahaprabhu took initiation into the puri sampradaya of dasanami monkhood as started by sripada sankaracharaya . consequently he had to do away with his shikha and sutra in the fires of viraja homa as an essential prerequisite to enter into sannyasa .
modern gaudiya leneage as reformed by sri bhaktisiddhanta saraswati and bhaktivinoda thakur allows sannyasis with thread(sutra) and shikha intact . this , i have learned , is called tridandi sannyas . i dont know whether this method of keeping shikha and sutra was also prevelent with the goswamis of advaita and nityananda vamsa before BSST and BVT .
modern pictures of post sannyasa mahaprabhu , commissioned by iskcon wrongly show him with a shikha and sutra .
at the same time the gaudiya lineage of sannyasa is claimed to have been flowing in from chaitanya mahaprabhu . how is this possible ?!!!
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