taratamya
तारतम्य tāratamya'Gradation', the doctrine, distinctive of Madhva's Dvaita, that souls are eternally graded in a hierarchy of intrinsic capacity and worth, a ranking that persists even in liberation (where each soul enjoys bliss according to its nature).
Where this term appears
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
He taught taratamya , a fixed hierarchy of souls, graded by their nature, enjoying different measures of bliss in liberation.
- Advaita, Vishishtadvaita, Dvaita: The Three Vedantas Philosophy
…are not only distinct; they are intrinsically graded (the doctrine of tāratamya , gradation), each with its own eternal nature — and, most controversially of all, Madhva teaches that souls have different eterna…
- Who Was Madhva? Philosophy
He called the ordering taratamya , a graded hierarchy of souls ranked by their innate endowment of virtues and their capacity for knowledge and bliss, rising from ordinary human beings through sages and gods to…