tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
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

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Systems of Rāmānuja ....
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and stages of life (Varnās'rama) so long as they help the attainment of wisdom although they become afterwards unnecessary. He believes that there are some who can attain wisdom without performing the prescribed customary duties of caste and stages of life.? He threw the doors of moksa open to the persons of all castes and he simplified the way of attainment of mokşa by means of bhakti to God that culminated into total surrender (prapatti) to God. The released soul enjoys its inseparability with the Brahman even by maintaining its separate self-consciousness (ahamartha ) in a mystical way. He, being a Vaisnava saint, agreed to the efficacy and necessity of all the modes of religious worship. He emphasized the importance of knowledge along with karma, the religious duties to be performed with a feeling of complete faith, love and reverence for the Paramātman by means of a loveful salf-surrender (prorfâ) to God.
Madhva Madhvācārya, a Vaişnava saint of the South was also known as Anandatirtha and Pūrņaprajāa belonged to the Vedanta school but proved to be a complete deviationist. He did not admit the monistic interpretation of Samkara and Rámānuja nor the semimonistic interpretation of Bhaskara, Yadava, Nimbārka, etc. He is a dvaitin (ant) or a pure bhedavādin (मेदवादी) who admits the reality of differences and refused to reduce them to illusoriness. Madhva is faithful to the Advaitic tradition as he admits that
1 Ibid. P. 416.
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