Bhagwadgita - thinam oru shlokam

[harishkumar09]

Well the philosohphy of Ramanuja also holds all devas (Shiva,Ganesha) are merely a form of Vishnu , which is in one way worse than saying they are inferior to Vishnu , as atleast Iskconites give the devas their identity.

Also you forget that advaitins used to designate their philosophy as vedanta making advaita and vedanta synonymous. Prabhupada was preaching in such an atmosphere where even the existence of
the philosophies of Ramanuja and Madhva were not recognised and considered as vedanta.

So in that atmosphere, he had to hit back. He could not simply keep quite.

Well , the may eb its true iskconites are very repititious in their statements and they ahev got this image , but their stand is no different to those of Shankara and Ramanuja. Only the frequency of repitition might make some people sick, but they are not unique in their statement.