I would like to speak a few words about a prominent acharya  in our Gaudiya Brahma-Madhva Sampradaya, Sri Madhvacharya. If anyone asks you which sampradaya you belong to, you can say, “We belong to Sri Brahma-Madhva Sampradaya.”   I want to quickly clarify the meaning of sampradaya . Sampradaya simply means a group or section. You can explain this word in many ways. Sampradaya means samyaka rupena prema dadati iti sampradaya.  In Sanskrit da dhatu, the verbal root   means ‘to