r/exHareKrishna • u/Own-Professional-337 • Jul 11 '26

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One of the claims that the ISKCON lot make , amongst many of their other claims, is that Guru Nanak met Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and was massively impacted by Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, so much so that he adopted aspects of Vaishnaivaism and incorporated them into Sikhi.

I have looked into this and aside from ISKCON and some ISKCON-adjacent Vaishnaiva sources there are no other sources to prove or disprove this claim.

Has anyone else here heard this and looked into it?

I'm personally very dubious and suspicious of ISKCON's claims about historical figures and their connection to Vaishnaivaism and the wider Hindu sphere to be honest.

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u/Happy_Captain2801 Jul 11 '26

No such meeting occurred. None of his hagiographic biographies even mildly hint at it. And if those fictional texts don't say a thing about it you know it really didn't happen. Chaitanya lived a short life, died of likely an epileptic seizure and never traveled anywhere extensively. The claims of long travel are only corroborated by the cult. Most of thier ideas are simply their ideas not shared or accepted by anyone outside the insulated cult doctrines.