Vallabha Acharya Jayanti 2027 Date
Vallabha Acharya Jayanti 2027 is on Sunday, 2 May 2027, on Ekadasi tithi.
Dates are for India (IST). Tithi timings for your city are on the Vallabha Acharya Jayanti page.
About Vallabha Acharya Jayanti
Marks the 1479 birth of Vallabha, who at age 14 initiated his first disciple at Mathura and later found the Shri-Nathaji image of child-Krishna at Mount Govardhana — now the sect's chief icon at Nathdwara. Observed on Varuthini Ekadashi in the dark fortnight of Vaishakha.
Vallabha's school is set apart by Shuddhadvaita — 'pure non-dualism'. Unlike Shankara's Advaita, it refuses to call the world an illusion; creation is the real Leela (play) of Krishna. From this flows Pushti Marg, the 'path of nourishing grace': liberation comes from God's grace alone, not ritual or knowledge. Krishna is served in Bala Swarupa, his child form, with food, song and dressing — the haveli style of worship still seen at Nathdwara in Rajasthan. Vallabha laid this out in the Anubhashya on the Brahma Sutras, the Subodhini commentary on the Bhagavata Purana, and sixteen short tracts called the Shodasha-granthah. His son Vitthalanatha succeeded him; Vitthalanatha's seven sons each founded a separate seat, and today's Goswami Maharajas descend from those seven houses.
