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Sunday, March 22, 2009

Ultimate Philosophy

Caitanya's philosophy of acintya-bhedabheda-tattva completed the progression to devotional theism. Ramanuja had agreed with Sankara that the Absolute is one only, but had disagreed by affirming individual variety within that oneness. Madhva had underscored the eternal duality of the Supreme and the jiva (the eternal, individual soul or spirit): he had maintained that the duality endures even after the liberation. Caitanya, in turn, specified that the Supreme and the jivas are "inconceivably, simultaneously one and different" (Acintya-Bheda-Abheda).Example is given of Ocean(Lord=>Krishna)and Drop of it(Soul=>Atma),Ocean and Soul are Qualitatively Same(Drop of Ocean is salty Like Ocean)but Quantitatively Different (Ocean is Large where as Drop of it is Small), Inconceivable as understood by Spritual Angle Only

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