Knowing Rāmānanda Rāya to be a Vaiṣṇava, Sārvabhauma Bhattacharya considered him a mere sentimentalist and did not hold him in high regard.

The night before Śrīla Mahārāja left his body and entered nitya-līlā, he frequently and loudly called out the names of nitya-līlā-praviṣṭa Ś