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Dear Sri SrIkAnth SwAmin,
                                       As I said, what I had written was my personal observation.  The reason why ISKCON is different from any of the other movements that you mentioned (ofcourse not including Sri Vaishnavam) is simple: ananya Bhakti. They have very high standards of worshipping nArAyaNa/Krishna alone, which is the exact case with our sampradAyam. In the case of Sankara, he attributed the same importance to Sriman nArAyaNa as well as Durga and the other demigods. It does mean a lot in our sampradAyam.
 
                                   Almost every movement, be it dwaitic/advaitic/tantric/false-gods, have really melodious bhajans- but as aspiring Sri Vaishnavas, I humbly feel that we should choose only from those sampradayams which are consistent with our philosophy. For the same reason, I have issues with even SadAsiva Brammendrar, who has written excellent songs on Lord Krishna- yet calling him formless.
 
                                   I like SwAthi ThirunAL in that aspect, for he was devoted to Lord Padmanabha alone, and when it comes to others, he glorifies them only in relation to PadmanabhA.
 
                                   JayadEvar's songs are excellent, again pure Bhakti Only to Lord Jagannath (For example, the song Srita Kamala Kuca Mandala He.... brings tears tremendous joy to the listener).
 
                                  Unfortunately, SrivaishnavA AchAryAs have not written Bhajans as our culture was leaning more towards texts.
 
-dasan.


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