Guest guest Posted March 12, 1996 Report Share Posted March 12, 1996 I have a very basic question to this very learned group. could someone please tell us what exactly does dvaita and advaitha mean. kanaka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 12, 1996 Report Share Posted March 12, 1996 On Mar 12, 1:57pm, Shakthi wrote: > dvaita vs advaita > I have a very basic question to this very learned group. could someone please > tell us what exactly does dvaita and advaitha mean. kanaka One of the central questions concerning Vedanta philosophers is the relationship of the individual self to the Absolute or Supreme Self. The *sole purpose* for this question is to determine the nature of contemplative meditation and to determine whether moksha, the state of release, is something worth seeking. The Dvaita school, inaugurated by Madhvacharya (Ananda Tirtha), argues that there is an inherent and absolute five-fold difference in Reality -- between one soul and another, between the soul and God, between God and matter, between the soul and matter, and between matter and matter. These differences are not only individuations, but also inherent qualitative differences, i.e., in its essentially pure state, one individual self is *not* equal to another in status, but only in genus. Consequently, any sort of unity, whether it be mystical or ontological, between the individual self and God is impossible in Dvaita. Hence the term ``Dvaita'' or ``dualism''. Liberation consists of experiencing one's essential nature in parama padam as a reflection of God's glory. The Advaita school, represented in its classical and most powerful form by Sankaracharya, argues that only the Absolute Self exists, *and* all else is false. Liberation consists in the realization that individuality is false, and the one's very essence is the Absolute Self, pure undifferentiated consciousness, one without a second. Since there is only one, and nothing else, the system is called Advaita, or ``non-dualism''. Visishtadvaita is also an Advaita, since only God the Absolute Self exists. However, our concept of God, the supreme divine reality, includes as its fundamental modes the individual selves and all of matter. In other words, God is the indwelling Self of all, and this ``all'' is real as they are included in His body. Therefore, Visishtadvaita literally means non-duality of the qualified, since God is qualified by innumerable attributes, including individual selves and matter. I am sure I have oversimplified, so please feel free to correct me. Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest srivathsa Posted March 15, 2014 Report Share Posted March 15, 2014 I have a question about madwa philosophy 1) for madwas there are 5 bedas *)jada-jada *)jiva -jiva *)jiva-iswara *)jiswara-jada and jiva-jada ---------------------------------------... BUT TODAYS SCIENCE HAVE PROVED THAT THERE IS NO JADA-JADA BEDA.....i:e according to madhvaacharya ,gold can never become silver....but todays science have proved that by changing electronics configuration we can change gold to silver....WHICH ACCORDING TO MADHVAACHARYA IMPOSSIBLE !!!!!!!....... 2)jiva-jiva beda: accoring to dvaita each jiva is suguna and his prakrutika gunas are his own gunas. BUT ACCORDING TO ME PRAKRUTHIKA GUNAS ARE NOT OF ATHMAS AND IS SUPER IMPOSED ON ATHMA,BY READING MY FOLLOWING COMMENTS U PEOPLE COME TO KNOW........ 1)me myself, i am human i see another human in kama,but if i become dog in next janma,i see dog with kama.....so prakruthika guna kama is not atmans guna 2) bhudhi: now when we are human we have high level of bhudhi,but if i become dog in next janma we have bhudhi of the level of dog,so budhi is not atmas guna if u go on thinking like that u will come to know that ,these gunas atman got from MAYA of jagath..and is not atmans guna ....so atman is nirgua and jagath is maya............so madwaacharya's jath is truth and 5 bedas are false....... CAN YOU PEOPLE PLEASE ANSWER MY QUESTION? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benny Posted May 27, 2014 Report Share Posted May 27, 2014 Excellent, Is athma and pranam same ? if same where is pranam ? is it blood ? otherwise is it in nostirles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Benny Posted May 28, 2014 Report Share Posted May 28, 2014 Excellent, what is athma ? is it conscience or life ? is athma in blood ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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