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THE PHILOSOPHY OF ISVARA.
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system also being dualistic, it was easy for Ramanuja to keep up the distinction between the personal soul and the personal God clearly distinct.
We will now try to understand what the great representative of the Advaita school has got to say on the point. We shall see how the Advaita system maintains all the hopes and aspirations of the dualist intact and at the same time propounds its own solution of the problem, in consonance with the high destiny of divine humanity. Those, who aspire to retain their individual mind even after liberation, and remain distinct, from the absolute reality will have ample opportunity of realising their aspiration and enjoy the blessing of the qualified Brahman. These are they who have been spoken of in the Bhagavata Purana thus :-"O king, such are the glorious qualities of the Lord that the sages whose only pleasure is in the Self, and from whom all bondages have fallen
