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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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(fxfa)-protection; (iii) samhara (iert)-dissolution; (iv) niyamana (fa44")-controlling all things or governance; (v) jñāna (372)-giving knowledge; (vi) ajñāna ( 213174)ignorance; (vii) bandha (qaret)-bondage and worldly fetters; and (viii) moksa (HTET-deliverance, liberation or emancipation. Thus the Brahman is the all-pervading Reality and governs the whole of the praksti and the jivas by making them entirely dependent on itself. It controls from within (anta ryāmin- ufet as well as from without. He maintains the distinctions of the jiva, prakrti and God as fundamental and eternal. The distinctions are never lost. The souls and the world or prakřti remain existent as distinct entities even in pralaya, but only in a subtle (sūkşma) form. The differences or distinctions cannot be entirely abrogated or annihilated. The souls retain their distinctions from each other and from God even in the state of liberation. Madhva is thus, apparently a dualist (dvaitin afat) or bheda vādin but at the same time he maintains his Advaitism or monism by making all the pluralities dependent on the final Reality, God. Madhva strictly adhered to the Sțuti and the Vedas. The eightfold functions which he has attributed to the Brahman or God simply bring out the all-pervasive and sovereign nature of God.
The jiva is totally dependent (paratantra) and is possessed of limited knowledge and limited joy. There are infinite jivas and each jiva is atomic in size but still it can experience the sensations taking place in the whole body by intelligence which is its
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