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enter here minutely into the difference bet. ween the two views, the Satyabhedavâda, and Bhedabhedavâda. Both these views admit that the individual and the supreme soul are essentially one, but they differ on the ques. tion whether the individual soul in its state of nescience is not something independent of and different from the supreme soul. The Bhedabhedavada taught that a soul before it arrives at the knowledge of its true nature, may be regarded neither as absolutely different from Brahma, nor as absolutely nondifferent from Brahma arguing that individual souls are like sparks issuing from a fire, which are neither absolutely different from the fire as they participate in the nature of fire, nor are they absolutely nondifferent, as they are distinguishable both from the fire and each other. On the other hand the Satyabhedavada view maintained that up to the moment of emancipation being reached, the individual soul and the
supreme soul are different, explaining that Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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