Guest guest Posted July 12, 1999 Report Share Posted July 12, 1999 Dear members, I have been reading some of your very interesting and vociferous discussions on Sri.RamAnujAchAryA and VisistAdvaitA. Here, I would like to take a moment of yours just like to remind you that the term "VisishtAdvaitA" itself was never coined by RamAnujA and I daresay you will not find the term used by him in any work of his! adiyEn, Sudarshan ____ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 1999 Report Share Posted July 15, 1999 SrimAn Sudarshan and all other esteemed bhAgawatas, I agree with you in that VisistAdvaitA is a term that came much later than Ramanuja. I have read in some books that RAmAnuja's system of philosophy is called SAreeraka MeemAmsa. But I doubt that even this is a term that describes RAmAnuja's school of thought specifically, because a large number of authors refer to the Brahma sUtrAs/J~nAna kAnda of vedAs themselves as SAreeraka MeemAmsa. So, only in the limited sense that RAmAnuja's philosophy agrees one hundred percent with the prasthAnAya traya can His philosophy assume that name. However just as Sankara's philosophy can also been called mAyA vAda and Madhwa's has been variously called bhEda vAda and tattva vAda, I wonder what vAda, RAmAuja' philosophy is called? may be sareerAtma-brahma vAda? I don't know. May one of our knowledgeable list-member shed light on this. || sarvam sree krshnArpaNam || -- muraLi kadAmbi --- sudarshan madabushi <sudarshanm wrote: > > Dear members, > I have been reading some of your very interesting > and vociferous discussions > on Sri.RamAnujAchAryA and VisistAdvaitA. > > Here, I would like to take a moment of yours just > like to remind you that > the term "VisishtAdvaitA" itself was never coined by > RamAnujA and I daresay > you will not find the term used by him in any work > of his! > > adiyEn, > Sudarshan > > > > > ____ > Get Your Private, Free Email at > http://www.hotmail.com > _______ Get your free @ address at Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 15, 1999 Report Share Posted July 15, 1999 Murali Kadambi wrote: > However just as Sankara's philosophy can also been called mAyA vAda and > Madhwa's has been variously called bhEda vAda and tattva vAda, I wonder > what vAda, RAmAuja' philosophy is called? may be sareerAtma-brahma > vAda? I don't know. I have seen Ramanuja's system described as 'saviSesha-brahma-vAda', (one that teaches that Ultimate Reality as attributes), or simply 'viSishtAdvaita-vAda'. The term viSishtAdvaita is first seen in the works of Sudarsana Suri and Vedanta Desika (13th-14th centuries), and even there only in their secondary works. Mani Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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