The Nandinatha Sampradaya is a Siddha Yoga Tradition (" Siddha " means literally attainment ), and its Gurus have often demonstrated great mystical abilities and wisdom.

Radha is also the principal object of worship in the Nimbarka Sampradaya, as Nimbarka, the founder of the tradition, declared that Radha and Krishna together constitute the absolute truth.

She is considered to be his original shakti, the supreme goddess in both the Nimbarka Sampradaya and following the advent of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu also within the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition.

In the Nath tradition, Dattatreya is recognized as an Avatar or incarnation of the Lord Shiva and as the Adi-Guru ( First Teacher ) of the Adinath Sampradaya of the Nathas.

Sampradaya Bhajan or Dakhshina Bharatha Sampradaya Bhajan is the tradition of Bhajans ( singing songs in praise of God and his divine love and simplicity ) in India, particularly in South India.

He was also appointed as the spiritual head of the Inchegeri branch of Navnath Sampradaya, the ' Nine Masters ’ tradition, a place he retained through his life.

Whenever siddha is mentioned the 84 siddhas and 9 nathas are remembered and it is this tradition of siddha which is known as the Siddha Sampradaya.

In the Nath tradition, Dattatreya is recognized as an Avatar or incarnation of Shiva and as the Adi-Guru ( First Teacher ) of the Adinath Sampradaya of the Nathas.

The Natha Sampradaya is an initiatory Guru-shishya tradition.

He is also the founder of the Dashanami Sampradaya of Hindu monasticism and Shanmata tradition of worship.

* Yugala Shataka by Swami Sri Sribhatta Devacarya ; known as the first ' Vani ' book in Vraja Bhasha composed in the 14th Century AD as a part of Nimbarka Sampradaya tradition of Radha Krishna worship.

Most famous among them are the chatur-amnaya mathas established by Adi Shankara which formed the nodal centres of under whose guidance the ancient Order of Vedantic monks were re-organised under ten names Dashanami Sampradaya, Ashta matha ( Eight monasteries ) of Udupi founded by Madhvacharya ( Madhwa acharya ) a dwaitha philosopher.

He talked about the ' direct way ' of knowing the Final Reality, in which one becomes aware of one's original nature through mental discrimination, a method which is common to the teachers of the Navnath Sampradaya.

Meykandar's twelve-verse Śivajñānabodham and subsequent works by other writers, all supposedly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, laid the foundation of the Meykandar Sampradaya ( lineage ), which propounds a pluralistic realism wherein God, souls and world are coexistent and without beginning.

Sampradaya is a body of practice, views and attitudes, which are transmitted, redefined and reviewed by each successive generation of followers.

Spare's philosophy of the Kia almost certainly influenced the " non-dual gnosis " which is a key element in Chumbley's system, although the similar " doctrine of the void " ( Shunyavata ), a foundation concept of Tantrism, is also likely to have affected Chumbley's work through the Uttara Kaula Sampradaya, of which he claimed to be an initiate.

Smarta Sampradaya ( Smarta Tradition, as it is termed in Sanskrit ) is a liberal or nonsectarian denomination of the Vedic Hindu religion which accepts all the major Hindu deities as forms of the one Brahman, in contrast to Vaishnavism, Shaivism, and Shaktism, the other three major Hindu sects, which revere Vishnu, Shiva, and Shakti, respectively, as the Supreme Being.

Swami Sahajanand Saraswati ( 1889 – 1950 ), born in a Bhumihar Brahmin family of Ghazipur of Uttar Pradesh state of India, was an ascetic ( Dandi Sanyasi ) of Dashnami Order ( Dasanami Sannyasi order ) of Adi Shankara Sampradaya ( a monastic post which only Brahmins can hold ) as well as a nationalist and peasant leader of India.

When Krishna is recognized to be Svayam Bhagavan, it can be understood that this is the belief of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, the Vallabha Sampradaya, and the Nimbarka Sampradaya, where Krishna is accepted to be the source of all other avatars, and the source of Vishnu himself.

Abhinaya Chakravathi Sri JS Eswara Prasad Rao of Hyderabad who is the disciple of AL Krishnamurthy Bhagavathar, Pudukkottai system, has produced performances based on Sampradaya bhajans under the title " Nitrya sankeerthnam ", he has performed abhinaya for all the bhajans irrespective of the languages.

Smartism ( or Smarta Sampradaya, Smarta Tradition, as it is termed in Sanskrit ) is a liberal or nonsectarian denomination of the Hindu religion.

One form of Vaishnavism is Madhwa ( Dwaita Sampradaya ), and the other is Sri Vaishnava ( Vishishtadvaita sampradaya ).

The Nath Sampradaya is a form of Avadhuta-pantha ( sect ).

According to the International Nath Order of the Nath Sampradaya, the Avadhuta Gita is a text of Advaita Vedanta sung by Dattatreya and recorded by his disciples Swami and Kartika.

In the Datta Sampradaya the first avatar is Shripad Shri Vallabh and the second is Narasimha Saraswati.

In 1933, he was introduced to his guru, Sri Siddharameshwar Maharaj, the head of the Inchegiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya, by his friend Yashwantrao Baagkar.

According to the International Nath Order of the Nath Sampradaya, the " Avadhuta Gita is a distillation of the sublime realization sung by Dattatreya and transcribed by two of his disciples, Swami and Kartika.

Krishna Deva Raya was formally initiated into the Vaishnava Sampradaya by Vyasatirtha.

* A title given to members of the Shaiva sannyasin order of the Dashanami Sampradaya established by Shankaracharya.

The reasons for its being so sacred are: Godavari river originates from this place ; its a place of Tri-Sandhya Gayatri ; the birth place of Lord Ganesha ; a place of the first Nath of Nath Sampradaya consisting of Gorakhnath and others ; a place where Nivrittinath was made to imbibe the holy knowledge by his Guru Gahininath ; and also a place where Nivrittinath made his brothers and sister attain the self by his preaching.

It provides much insight into the mystical meditations and tantras ( techniques ) valued by the Nandinatha Sampradaya.

The Nandinatha Sampradaya is maintained today by several groups stemming from MahaRishi Nandinatha's eight disciples.

The Natha Sampradaya does not recognize caste barriers, and their teachings were adopted by outcasts and kings alike.

Reference to the Adinath Sampradaya is pointed out by Rajmohan Nath ( 1964 ) in the following list of the twelve sub-sects:

In Krishna-centered theology ( Krishna is seen as a form of Vishnu by some ) the title Svayam Bhagavan is used exclusively to designate Krishna in his personal feature, it refers to Gaudiya Vaishnava, the Nimbarka Sampradaya and followers of Vallabha, while the person of Vishnu and Narayana is sometimes referred to as the ultimate personal god of other Vaishnava traditions.

Each of them were ignaugurated by Śrī Devī and known as the Śrī Sampradāya, Lord Brahmā and known as the Brahma Sampradaya, Lord Rudra and known as the Rudra Sampradaya ; and the Four Kumāras and known as Sanakādi Sampradāya or Nimbarka Sampradaya.

Traditions of Gaudiya Vaishnavas, the Nimbarka Sampradaya and followers of Swaminarayan and Vallabha consider Krishna to be the source of all avatars, and the source of Vishnu himself, or to be the same as Narayana.

The Yugala Shataka of Shri Shribhatta in the Nimbarka Sampradaya, written in 1294 CE, contains lyrics of similar fashion.

Swami Haridas ( also in the Nimbarka Sampradaya ), the guru of Tansen, was a well known dhrupad singer.

Stories recounted in many holy books of the Bhagawata Sampradaya sect about Dnyaneshwar ’ s life are full of miracles, such as the baking of bread ( mānde, or roti in Hindi ) on his heated back, and his making a wall move. This was because he was yogi who followed the yogic methods of Nath Sampradaya.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj ( April 17, 1897 – September 8, 1981 ), born Maruti Shivrampant Kambli, was an Indian spiritual teacher and philosopher of Advaita ( Nondualism ), and a Guru, belonging to the Inchgiri branch of the Navnath Sampradaya.

The common teaching style of teaching of the Inchgiri Sampradaya masters ( beginning with Shri Bhauseheb Maharaj ) to Indian devotees was for the Master to select a passage from a traditional text on Advaita Vedanta, most commonly Dasbodh of Saint Shri Samarth Ramdas ( as well as the " Yoga Vasishtha ", " Saachara " of Shri Shankaracharya, and the " Ecknati Bhagwat " of Saint Ecknath ), and to expound upon the meaning and import of that selected passage.

( see Nandinatha Sampradaya ) Siddhanta monastics used the influence of royal patrons to propagate the teachings in neighboring kingdoms, particularly in South India.