Why is the spiritual master of Vishvanath Chakravarti not mentioned in the list of guru-paramapara?

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Does that answer your question? We have, why is the spiritual master of Vishwanath Chaturthi not mentioned directly? From Vishwanath Thakur onwards, the name that comes is of Narottam Das Thakur.
But there are intermingled spiritual masters in between. So, why are they not mentioned? Uncertain. The Guru-Shishya Parampara that we have presently, which comes in Step Up Vow, Bhagavad Gita as it is, just before the book starts, is based on the song composed by Vishwanath Thakur, Krishna Hoite Chatur Mukha.
And this song is describing how the spiritual knowledge that has been given by Krishna is coming down in Parampara. Now, when Vishwanath Thakur wrote this song, he was primarily focusing on the principle of the transmission of spiritual knowledge through the chain of realized souls. And that’s why he was focusing on the realized souls who have been transmitting this knowledge and not on the specific genealogy, the specific lineage.
For example, when it talks about Madhvacharya, and after that there are three Madhvacharyas mentioned, Madhusampada Acharyas, but actually they are not exactly guru-disciple-guru-disciple. They are more like, all three are disciples of Madhvacharya, but they are mentioned here because they acted as shiksha-gurus to each other. In that sense, the emphasis is on shiksha.
Similarly, when he is talking about the list of Acharyas, he is enlisting only the prominent Acharyas. That’s why it’s not an exhaustive list, it’s an indicative list. And there are, in that sense, breaks, there are not exactly breaks, but there is not a listing of the Acharyas between Vishwanath Chaturthi and Narottam Das Chaturthi.
Similarly, there is not a listing of the Acharyas between Jagannath Babaji and Gurudev Vidyabhushan. They might have been contemporaries, because Jagannath Babaji lived for an exceptionally long time, but there is not much clear written record of the two of them directly meeting each other. But the principle is that the knowledge was passed down in Parampara.
But the specifics of that knowledge may not be available in the historical records. Through Goal it was passed may not be very unambiguously clear in the historical record. And even Sampradaya, there are phases when the preaching expands.
There are other phases when the preaching is more inward in terms of strengthening the foundations. And there are other stages when the Sampradaya is barely surviving. So, that’s why the list is not exhaustive.
It is indicative of the way in which