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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The Systems of Rāmānuja
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
589
which means that the individual soul belongs to God, that it is His, as it cannot exist apart from Him. According to Madhva, therefore, the individual soul realises intuitively that it belongs to the Paramatman; and that is its real nature.
Vallabha
man.
Vallabhacarya, who lived in the fifteenth century was a very prominent Vaiṣṇava Acārya. He was an extreme devotee of Kṛṣṇa who was his Parabrahman. He was predominantly a saint and a God intoxicated He preached the gospel of Divine love (bhakti) as a means of attaining salvation. He was not given mainly to scholastic and analytical studies of the scriptures, but he chose to remain a devout worshipper of Bhagavan Kṛṣṇa. He had created such an enchanting atmosphere that the men and women around him were filled through and through with the most ardent love for Krsna in various forms. He preached the doctrine of love and devotion (bhakti) as the necessary means of salvation.
For Private And Personal
Vallabha was a complete antagonist of S'amkara in as much as he denounced S'amkara's doctrine of the illusoriness of the world (Māyāvāda-I). Vallabha was also a thoroughgoing Advaitin (S'uddhadvaitin- शुद्धाद्वैतिन् ) who believed that the ultimate Reality is only one, the Brahman, which is the same as Kṛṣṇa, and is all-pervading; and it itself is present everywhere as it is all-pervading, and every thing that exists in the world is nothing but the Brahman