'Incapability of separate existence', the key relation in Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita by which souls and matter, though real and distinct, cannot exist apart from Brahman: they are inseparable modes (prakara) or the body of God, dependent on him as a body is on its self.

Where this term appears

• Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, Dvaita: The Three Vedantas Philosophy →

  …ls them, yet utterly inseparable from it and wholly dependent on it ( apṛthak-siddhi , "incapable of separate existence").

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