dvaita - visishtadvaita

November 8, 1999

A few lines regarding the discussions.

The one fundamental points regarding the difference in moksha between the Lord

and jivas and between one Jiva and another.

As regards the first it is known to all that even RamA,the ever liberated soul

and His consort is still counting His qualities and the counting is never

ending. So,the knowledge or Ananda of any individual soul cannotbe even a trfle

of the Lords. certainly not 50% or95%.

The second point is the difference between any two Jivas which is one of the

basic concepts of Dvaita ,the same extending to Muktas as well.I do not think

this is accepted by Visishtadvaita. This has been stressed by Srimadhvacharya in

his Bhashya on BS3-3-52(Om Pragnantara prithaktva drishticha taduktam Om) where

he states that the ananda of any mukta jiva is according to his 'yogyata' .

The other point stressed by Srimadacharya is that no jiva can attain mukti

by 'dvEsha' of the Lord . I presume Visistadvaita differs here from dvaita

(ex. Sisupala). This is dealt with in detail in Sriman Nyayasudha.

There are other differences as well between the two systems. While interpreting

sloka 2-41 of Bg,Srimadacharya has stated that well thought knowledge is only

one. We should therefore take the interpretations of Srimadacharyain whose name

we are writing these articles irrespective of others arguments.

AchArya SrimadAchArya santu mE janmajanmani

With best wishes Bannur.R(bkrrao)

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November 9, 1999

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Dear Jayakrishnan,

Thanks for your response. I wrote on the subject with the intention that our

members should know the correct position asper Srimadacharya's philosophy since

a lot of discussion had gone into the subject . If Mani does not get a copy of

it well and good because I am not interested in entering into a discussion with

anybody. If my writing helps some of our members in getting the rightknowledgeI

consider my efforts fruitful and submit them at the feet of the Lord.

with best wishes,

Bannur.R

Jay Nelamangala <jay wrote:

Hello Ramachandra Rao, Thanks for putting this email together for us. We can

all learn tid-bits of shastra from these emails which I think is themain purpose

of even entertaining a discussion like this one. But your email may not reach

Mr. Mani who is not on the VMS list and so I request you to include his email

in yourresponses. His email ID is mani.

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