vishishtadvaita
विशिष्टाद्वैत viśiṣṭādvaitaQualified non-dualism; the school of Vedanta founded by Ramanuja, in which selves and matter are real and form the body of brahman, distinct from yet inseparable from it.
Where this term appears
- What is Vaishnavism? Lineages
In his Sri Bhashya , his commentary on the Brahma Sutras , he taught Vishishtadvaita , qualified non-dualism.
- What are the Upanishads? Scriptures
…n the eleventh and twelfth centuries, read the same texts as teaching Vishishtadvaita , "qualified non-dualism." The self and the world are real and are the body of brahman, genuinely united with it yet genuine…
- What is the Bhagavad Gita? Scriptures
Ramanuja, the eleventh-to-twelfth-century teacher of Vishishtadvaita , qualified non-dualism, read the same verses as teaching that loving devotion, bhakti , to a personal God is the path to liberation, with th…
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
The second is Vishishtadvaita , "qualified non-dualism," associated with Ramanuja (traditionally eleventh to twelfth century CE).
- Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic? Essentials
Vishishtadvaita, the school of Ramanuja, worships one supreme personal God who contains all souls and all lesser deities as his body, real and distinct yet wholly dependent on him.
- Ishta-Devata: Choosing a Personal Deity Deities
For Ramanuja, whose Vishishtadvaita is the great theistic Vedanta, the personal Lord is the highest reality, possessed of infinite auspicious qualities, and liberation is eternal, conscious, loving service in i…
- Tat tvam asi: three readings Philosophy
Ramanuja: two names for one Lord Ramanuja, the great teacher of Vishishtadvaita, "qualified non-dualism," finds the strict-identity reading both grammatically loose and spiritually cold.
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
There is the Sri sampradaya of Ramanuja, whose Vishishtadvaita , qualified non-dualism, argued in the twelfth century that the soul is real, distinct, and eternally dependent on a personal God.