While surfing around earlier today I ran across this web page:
http://www.sivanandadlshq.org/teachings/sa...nkirtanyoga.htm
I am not sure if this Swami Sivanananda is the same as the famous one. It is interesting that the page in question is prescribing the chanting of the mahA-mantra and appears to be taking doctrine directly from the Gaudiya tradition, yet the Swami appears to be of the Shankarite lineage, or is it that the doctrine we have always thought of as uniquely Gaudiya is more universal among Hindu sects in general?