One of the shloka-s in the Shrimad Bhagavata Purana is ‘EtE samastha kAlaH puMsaH kriSNAstu bhagavAn svayam’; it also says that the Supreme Being (Adipurusha) is Rama. Based on this shloka, the Krishna devotees (followers of Gaudiya, Vallabha, Nimbarkar traditions) say that Emperuman Kannan is THE Supreme Being and Sriman Narayana, Vishnu are incarnations of Kannan Emperuman. What is the exposition of our elders in our tradition for this shloka? What is the difference between Vishnu and Narayana? Adiyen has heard from a discourse that Vishnu is an incarnation taken for the protection of the world and that Sriman Narayanan is the Supreme Being. Is Swami Narayanan an Acharya of our tradition? In his Grantham, he quoted Bhagavad Ramanuja’s Sri Bhasyam and Gita Bhasyam and said these are scriptures of Bhakti Marga; Also, in his Sheekshapatree, he said ‘matam vishishtAdvaitaM mE’.

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In many of His incarnations, Bhagavan would not have revealed all His aspects and instead would be in the form of a human or an animal; only in His incarnation as Krishna, did He reveal all His Supreme Being aspects.
Both Vishnu and Narayana are the same. Between Brahma and Shiva, Vishnu is another incarnation.
Swami Narayanan tradition could be an offshoot of Vishishtadvaita tradition. But both tradition and principles are different. We need not follow them.

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