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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Atman and Mokga
overcoming nescience, by complete dedication to and faith in God, and by testing their detachment by doing their work disinterestedly, not being affected by their good and bad results. The soul thus enjoys supreme bliss and unending peace by realising its real nature.
Rāmānuja In the post-Samkarite period and among the successors of S'amkara, Rámánujācārya stands as the most prominent and powerful personality. Rāmānuja was a profound scholar and a keen Vaisnava devotee. Ramānuja criticized Sankara's philosophy of illusoriness of the world with a great vehemence and established his own philosophy and religion. He was a great follower of Vaişņavism in the Southern India. His creed was widely accepted and he had the honour of being a powerful leader of a great religious sect. He lived in the eleventh century and was initiated in philosophy by Yadavaprakasa and Yamunācarya. Rāmānuja was an original thinker and therefore, he has made his own outstanding contribution to the philosophic thought: He had his own differences with his predecessors and he maintained his differences with great courage and confidence.
Ramānuja has written his commentary on the Brahma-Sūtra, as S'amkara did, and he interpreted the original Brahma Sūtras in his own way by presenting supporting evidences from the S'ști. Ramānuja interpreted the same Sūtras that Samkara
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| SR No. | 020053 |
| Book Title | tman_and_moksa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | G N Joshi |
| Publisher | Gujarat University |
| Publication Year | 1965 |
| Total Pages | 901 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 12 MB |