BHAGAVAT DHARMA SAMAJ

His Divine Grace Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Sri Krsna Balaram Swamiji

Founder-Acārya of Bhāgavat Dharma Samāj and the Spiritual Master in the Unbroken Chain of Disciplic Succession Descending from Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

PRAṆĀMA MANTRA
THE PARAMPARĀ

nama oḿ viṣṇu-pādāya
kṛṣṇa-preṣṭhāya bhū-tale
śrīmate kṛṣṇa balarām
swāmin iti nāmine

śrila prabhupāda śiṣyeṣu
kevalam vrajavāsinam
vāḍava vaṁśāvataṁśāṁ
haṁsaṁ dhvāntāntakaṁ namaḥ

TRANSLATION

“We offer our respectful obeisance at the lotus feet of His Divine Grace Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Śrī Kṛṣṇa Balarām Swāmījī Mahārāj, who is very dear to Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa for having taken shelter at His lotus feet.”

“Among all the disciples of Śrīla Prabhupāda, our Gurudeva is the only Vrajavāsī disciple born in Śrī Vrindāban Dhāma, and is born into an enlightened Gauḍa Brāhmaṇa family. He is vastly learned in the Vedic scriptures and is able to remove the darkness of ignorance as the sun removes darkness upon rising.”

We are receiving the transcendental knowledge through Guru parampara, in this unbroken chain of disciplic succession: 1) Kṛṣṇa, 2) Brahmā, 3) Nārada, 4) Vyāsa, 5) Madhva, 6) Padmanābha, 7) Nṛhari, 8) Mādhava, 9) Akṣobhya, 10) Jayatīrtha, 11) Jñānasindhu, 12) Dayānidhi, 13) Vidyānidhi, 14) Rājendra, 15) Jayadharma, 16) Puruṣottama, 17) Brahmaṇyatīrtha, 18) Vyāsatīrtha, 19) Lakṣmīpati, 20) Mādhavendra Purī, 21) Īśvara Purī, 22) Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, 23) Rūpa, 24) Raghunātha, Śrī Jīva, 25) Kṛṣṇadāsa, 26) Narottama, 27) Viśvanātha Cakravartī, 28) Jagannāthadāsa, 29) Bhaktivinoda, 30) Gaurakiśora, 31) Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, 32) His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swāmī Prabhupāda, 33) His Divine Grace Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Śrī Kṛṣṇa Balarām Swāmī.