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Biography of Vallabhacharya: Vallabhacharya Mahaprabhu (1479–1531 CE), also known as Vallabha, Mahaprabhuji and Vishnuswami, was an Indian saint and philosopher. He founded the Krishna-centered Pushtimarg sect of Vaishnavism in the Braj (Vraja) region of India. Vallabhacharya was born in a Telugu Tailang Brahmin family that was residing in Varanasi. They escaped to Champaran of Chhattisgarh state while expecting a Muslim invasion in Varanasi during the late 15th century. Vallabhacharya studied the Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and Shaddarshana as a child, and then traveled throughout the Indian subcontinent for over 20 years. He became one of the important leaders of the devotional Bhakti movement. He won many philosophical scholarly debates against followers of Adi Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhvacharya, and others. Vallabhacharya rejected asceticism and monastic life, suggesting that through loving devotion to the deity Krishna, any householder could achieve salvation – an idea that became...