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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
The Systems of Rāmānuja ....
to whom, the individual soul gets ultimately lost and dissolved into the Supreme Self, the Brahman; but it is a positive state in which though the individual soul loses its physical and subtle body, maintains its separate consciousness and enjoys all the powers of the Brahman (God) except that of creation and regulation of the world. It also enjoys overwhelmingly the perfect intelligence, perfect bliss and all the innumerable auspicious qualities of the Supreme Self. It is a state of positive unending enjoyment of happiness in which the soul and the Self are equal and remain inseparable forever.
Nimbārka Nimbārkācārya, another powerful leader of Vaisnavism was a successor of Rāmānuja and was a predecessor of the dvaitavādin Madhvācārya. He lived in the 19th century A.D. His philosophy resembles to a very great extent the philosophy of Vis'istādva. ita of Rāmānuja. He was a Bhedābhedavādin in as much as he believed that the individual soul (jiva) and the world are identical in essence with the Brahman or Kęsņa, and still they are different from the Brahman as they possess their own distinct natures which are peculiar only with them. Nimbărka agrees with Samkara and Ramānuja in holding that the Brahman is the unitary and ultimate Reality which stands as the source (sarga#), sustenance (sthiti-fffa) and reabsorption (layafy) of the whole world and the souls. But he rejects the Vivartavāda-fadara (or illusoriness of the world
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