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Whenever two Goswami's meet then why do they say Aum Namo Narayana?

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  • Presumably because they're Vaishnavas, so they say a mantra to Vishnu. – Keshav Srinivasan Sep 09 '15 at 13:07
  • @Keshav - Not just gosvamis, even shankaracharyas sign off saying Narayana Narayana, only. –  Sep 09 '15 at 15:32
  • @Krishna What Shankaracharyas sign off with Narayana? I thought all the Shankaracharyas are Shiva bhaktas nowadays. – Keshav Srinivasan Sep 09 '15 at 15:40
  • @Keshav - I have seen Kanchi Shankaracharyas sign off as Narayana, Narayana only. Also, many of other Shankaracharyas do the same.. –  Sep 10 '15 at 06:58
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    Sadhus, Sannyasins do the same greeting. We are saluting Narayana in each other. – Swami Vishwananda Sep 10 '15 at 09:41
  • @Krishna Aren't the Kanchi Shankaracharyas staunch Shiva bhaktas? – Keshav Srinivasan Sep 10 '15 at 10:24
  • @Keshav - they call themselves as advaitins... But, take the name of Narayana, Narayana only. The protocol for advaita Shankara based sanyasis, i suppose.i.e. doing Narayana smaranam –  Sep 10 '15 at 10:57
  • @Krishna Yeah, they believe in Advaita, and they technically worship the five Panchayatana gods, but in practice they're considered Shaivites, because Shiva is their Ishta Devata. But yeah, perhaps the tradition of saying Narayana goes back to an earlier time when Advaitins were Vaishnavas. – Keshav Srinivasan Sep 10 '15 at 11:21
  • @Keshav - Perhaps the earliest advaitins were more vaishnavaite in there practices and leanings, though they ultimately believed in Nirguna brahman, attributeless, nameless, formless etc. Though they might have worshipped many gods, saguna forms Vis- e- Vis Shiva etc, the highest Saguna Brahman was always considered by them as Lord Vishnu. –  Sep 10 '15 at 12:09
  • @SwamiVishwananda By the way, can you take a look at this Brihadaranyaka Upanishad question I just posted: http://hinduism.stackexchange.com/q/8616/36 – Keshav Srinivasan Sep 17 '15 at 20:22
  • @Keshav I don't know why you keep getting to the Shankaracharyas are Shiva Bhakta thing. If I am correct Chandrashekhara Saraswati always signed off with Narayana Smritih. – Surya Dec 01 '15 at 07:08
  • @Surya Well, I'm just surprised that they'd sign off with a Vishnu-related greeting rather than a Shiva-related greeting. – Keshav Srinivasan Dec 01 '15 at 07:26
  • @Keshav why discriminate? :) – Surya Dec 01 '15 at 07:35
  • janardana, narayana are names of siva also. – S K Feb 10 '18 at 18:05
  • Here is an article written by Chandrasekara Saraswathi also knows as Maha Periva of Kanchi titled Namo Namaha. This clearly clarifies the reason. Source: http://www.vedarahasya.net/namonama.htm – Bala Feb 10 '18 at 17:34

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