Raghunatha dasa (BG and SB)

Expressions researched:
"Raghunatha dasa Gosvami" |"Raghunatha dasa" |"Raghunatha dasa" |"Raghunatha"

BG Preface and Introduction

BG Introduction:

I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master and unto the feet of all Vaiṣṇavas. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the lotus feet of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī along with his elder brother Sanātana Gosvāmī, as well as Raghunātha Dāsa and Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa, Gopāla Bhaṭṭa, and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī.

BG Introduction:

Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ (Bhagavad-gītā 4.2). This Bhagavad-gītā As It Is is received through this disciplic succession:

1. Kṛṣṇa

2. Brahmā

3. Nārada

4. Vyāsa

5. Madhva

6. Padmanābha

7. Nṛhari

8. Mādhava

9. Akṣobhya

10. Jaya Tīrtha

11. Jñānasindhu

12. Dayānidhi

13. Vidyānidhi

14. Rājendra

15. Jayadharma

16. Puruṣottama

17. Brahmaṇya Tīrtha

18. Vyāsa Tīrtha

19. Lakṣmīpati

20. Mādhavendra Purī

21. Īśvara Purī, (Nityānanda, Advaita)

22. Lord Caitanya

23. Rūpa, (Svarūpa, Sanātana)

24. Raghunātha, Jīva

25. Kṛṣṇadāsa

26. Narottama

27. Viśvanātha

28. (Baladeva) Jagannātha

29. Bhaktivinoda

30. Gaurakiśora

31. Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī

32. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

SB Preface and Introduction

SB Introduction:

Many devotees of Lord Caitanya like Śrīla Vṛndāvana dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrī Locana dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrīla Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, Śrī Kavikarṇapūra, Śrī Prabodhānanda Sarasvatī, Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī, Śrī Sanātana Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Jīva Gosvāmī, Śrī Gopāla Bhaṭṭa Gosvāmī, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī and in this latter age within two hundred years, Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Śrī Baladeva Vidyābhūṣana, Śrī Śyāmānanda Gosvāmī, Śrī Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Śrī Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura and at last Śrī Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura (our spiritual master) and many other great and renowned scholars and devotees of the Lord have prepared voluminous books and literatures on the life and precepts of the Lord.