Vivekananda Mailing List-8/10/03

[Guest guest]

In explaining the next Sutra, Ramanuja says, " If you say it is not so,

because there are direct texts in the Vedas in evidence to the

contrary, these texts refer to the glory of the liberated in the

spheres of the subordinate deities. " This also is an easy solution of

the difficulty. Although the system of Ramanuja admits the unity of the

total, within that totality of existence there are, according to him,

eternal differences. Therefore, for all practical purposes, this system

also being dualistic, it was easy for Ramanuja to keep the distinction

between the personal soul and the Personal God very clear.