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	Visishtadvaita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Visishtadvaita also known as the Shree Sampradhaaya of Vaishnavism, represents the first serious attempt in systematic philosophy to treat bhakti or devotion as the means to liberation.
		In the Visishtadvaita tradition the Divya Prabandham is considered on par with the Vedas and is also referred to as the Tamil Veda.
		Visishtadvaita is also called Ubhaya Vedanta since it equally values both the Sanskrit and the Tamil traditions.
	indian-philosophy.braincells.com /vedanta/visisht.html (5315 words)

	The Hindu : Dictionary of Visishtadvaita
		VISISHTADVAITA KOSA: Compiled by D. Tatacharya Swamy, Edited and published by Dr. Chakravarthy Raghavan; D. Swamy Publications, Tirupati.
		The tradition that was propagated by Ramanuja came to be known as Visishtadvaita.
		The compiler of this dictionary was a scholar par-excellence in Visishtadvaita philosophy.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/br/2002/01/29/stories/2002012900150301.htm (435 words)

	Ramanuja's Commentary on the Vedanta Sutras
		Ramanuja (c.1056-1137) was the founder of Visishtadvaita Vedanta (qualified non-dualism).
		Visishtadvaita Vedanta teaches that Atman (the individual Self) is part of the unity of Brahman (the universal Self), but that Brahman has other differentiating qualities.
		Ramanuja’s Visishtadvaita Vedanta (or philosophy of qualified non-dualism) has some important differences from Shankara’s Advaita Vedanta (or philosophy of non-dualism).
	www.angelfire.com /md2/timewarp/ramanuja.html (1433 words)

	Vishishtadvaita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Ramanuja, the main proponent of Visishtadvaita philosophy contends that the Prasthana Traya i.e.
		Visishtadvaita philosophy of Ramanuja provided the philosophical basis for the establishment of Sri Vaishnavism and gave Vedantic backing to the brimming devotion of the Alwar saints and their composition of wonderful poetry and devotional songs in praise of Lord Vishnu.
		The VisishtAdvaita school of philosophy is probably the first school to interpret the Vedanta texts without being influenced by Buddhist thought.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Vishishtadvaita (1173 words)

	Visishtadvaita (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Visishtadvaita is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		The Visishtadvaita school teaches that the human spirit is separate and different from the one supreme spirit, though dependent on it and ultimately to be united with it, as well as originally in some manner springing forth from it.
		The Visishtadvaita speaks of the supreme spirit almost as monists do, because apparently ascribing to it a type of individuality, which is as offensive to the rigid logical impersonal eternal All of the Advaita as is the franker dualism of the Dvaitins.
	www.experiencefestival.com.cob-web.org:8888 /visishtadvaita (1241 words)

	Schools of Vedanta
		From these interpretations have arisen several schools of philosophy, viz., Kevala Advaita philosophy of Sri Sankaracharya, the philosophy of Qualified Monism or Visishtadvaita of Sri Ramanujacharya, the Dvaita philosophy of Sri Madhvacharya, the Bhedabheda philosophy of Sri Nimbarkacharya, the Suddha Advaita (pure non-dual) philosophy of Sri Vallabhacharya.
		The Visishtadvaita is so called because it inculcates the Advaita or oneness of God, with visesha or attributes.
		Ramanuja’s celebrated system of philosophy known as Visishtadvaita or qualified monism is Advaita or non-dualism with a qualification or Visesha.
	www.hinduism.co.za /schools.htm (9848 words)

	Advaitha, Dvaitha and VisishtAdvaitha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Visishtadvaita is also an Advaita, since only God the Absolute Self exists.
		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.
	members.tripod.com /~SriRamanujar/3vaitha.html (301 words)

	Ramanuja
		About the end of the tenth century, the Visishtadvaita system of philosophy was well established in Southern India and the followers of this creed were in charge of important Vaishnavite temples at Kancheepuram, Srirangam, Tirupathi and other important places.
		Accordingly, Ramanuja took his place and was duly installed with all the attendant ceremonies and celebrations as the head of the Visishtadvaita Mutt at Srirangam.
		Ramanuja was the exponent of the Visishtadvaita philosophy or qualified non-dualism.
	www.dlshq.org /saints/ramanuja.htm (1859 words)

	SRI BALAJI
		Sri Ramanuja, the great saint, teacher and founder of the philosophical school known as Visishtadvaita was born in A.D. 1017 at Sriperumbudur near Chennai in South India.
		He is known as the greatest exponent of Visishtadvaita Vedanta.
		He was also one of the five Acharyas of Sri Ramanuja and taught him Mahabharata and Ramayana from the angle of Visishtadvaita.
	sribalaji.com /sri-ramanuja.htm (347 words)

	Re: distinction between advaita and visishtadvaita philosophies
		To distinguish it from other forms of Advaita, it is also called nirvisesha Advaita, or ``non-duality of the Absolute without qualities.'' Visishtadvaita is also an Advaita, since only God the Absolute, omnipresent Self exists.
		Therefore, Visishtadvaita literally means non-duality of the qualified, since God is qualified by innumerable glorious attributes, including individual selves and matter.
		Such a vision, when practiced to the point of being unbroken, is the liberating knoweldge spoken of in the Vedas, a result of God's love of His beloved devotee.
	www.ramanuja.org /sv/bhakti/archives/may98/0061.html (889 words)

	Sapthagiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Visishtadvaita relies primarly on the Vedas, ending with and inclusive of the Upanishads, for its authenticity.
		Certain basic principles determine the attitude of Visishtadvaita towards the scriptures, which are now examined in detail.
		Visishtadvaita adopts the theory established by the Mimamsakas with great acumen, that all knowledge is intrinsically valid.
	www.tirumala.org /sapthagiri/012003/veda.htm (2074 words)

	The Hindu : Book Review : Gita according to Visishtadvaita tradition
		He was justly famous for his religious lectures and more particularly on the Bhagavad Gita, which used to hold the audience spellbound.
		Even so, he has also dealt with the salient points in the Advaita and the Dvaita interpretations, so that the reader can make a comparative study of all the three viewpoints.
		The book has been nicely brought out and will be useful for the English-knowing public to understand and appreciate the Visishtadvaita interpretation of the Gita.
	www.hindu.com /br/2005/07/26/stories/2005072600021600.htm (545 words)

	Obey the Divine Command with total Faith - Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Divine Discourse on 19th October 2004
		The Visishtadvaita philosophy of Sri Ramanujacharya presupposes that Jiva and Brahman are different.
		In fact, the underlying principle behind the Advaita philosophy of Sri Sankaracharya and Visishtadvaita philosophy of Sri Ramanujacharya is one and the same.
		All the three schools of philosophy, therefore lead to the same goal and their underlying meaning is Brahma Sathyam Jaganmithya (Brahman alone is the truth and the world is illusory).
	www.saibaba.ws /discourses/2004/04Oct20.htm (2361 words)

	Bhagavad Ramanuja's vedartha_sangraha part 10
		The meaning told by Visishtadvaita is not in any way unsuitable to the context.
		Visishtadvaita is not suitable in "tat tvam asi".
		The Advaita's interpretaion of "tat tvam asi" is therefore irrelevant.
	www.srivaishnava.20m.com /philosophy/vedartha_sangraha10.htm (1404 words)

	Brahma Sutras by Swami Sivananda
		The Bhashya of Sri Sankara on Brahma Sutras is known as Sariraka Bhashya.
		The Bhashya of Sri Ramanuja who founded the Visishtadvaita School is called Sri Bhashya.
		The commentary of Sri Nimbarkacharya is known as Vedanta- parijata-saurabha.
	www.swami-krishnananda.org /bs_0/bs_intro.html (1895 words)

	On Brahmasutras and VisishtAdvaita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He said that > the main purport of that scool of thought is Karma Yoga.
		Here again, there is no > mention of contribution by humans to their own uplift either > in worldly or paramArthic matters.
		Thus again, "I" would Just so that this point is clarified, there are two schools of thought in the visishtAdvaita (Sri Vaishnava) tradition (both belonging to Sri rAmAnujA tradition).
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/1997-October/007592.html (384 words)

	Philosophy of Sri Ramanuja
		It is called Visishtadvaita, in Sanskrit, meaning ``non-duality of Reality, the qualified whole, as characterized by attributes''.
		The relationship that exists between Brahman (Narayanan) and the Universe of sentient souls and insentient entities, is INSEPARABLE and IRREVOCABLE, known as "aprthaksiddha".
		As a classical expression of Vedanta (the philosophical basis for much of Hinduism), the goal of Visishtadvaita philosophy is to understand and experience Brahman, the One Blissful Reality who is the all-pervasive ground and sustenance of the universe -- the string upon whom all pearls are threaded.
	www.saranagathi.org /acharyas/ramanuja/philosophy.htm (569 words)

	Re: The Theism of the Upanishads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I only ask that Visishtadvaita followers read Sankara with the same open mind, and evaluate whether most of the objections to Advaita even stand.
		I have already pointed in my post on mAyA that if the Visishtadvaitin is unhappy about the ontological status of the incomprehensible mAyA in Advaita, he himself resorts to incomprehensibility to explain his ideas.
		Adherents of Visishtadvaita are not too happy with that, I'm sure.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1994/msg00401.html (938 words)

	Visishtadvaita scriptures and texts - Message Board - ezboard.com
		Visishtadvaita scriptures and texts - Message Board - ezboard.com
		This will be a library of all visishtadvaita works.
		This is not a discussion forum, any discussion that happens here will be moved to appropriate forums.
	p068.ezboard.com /fsrivaishnavismfrm19 (128 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		All these works generally deal with four topics: Brahman (God the Absolute), Jivatman (the individual self), creation of the world and Moksha, (liberation), the final goal of human life.
		Different interpretations of the fundamental texts of Vedanta have given rise to three main schools: Advaita, Visishtadvaita and Dvaita.
		Visishtadvaita considers the triune of Isvara, Jivas and Prakriti as one reality.
	www.csua.berkeley.edu /~rajah/AboutMe/Hinduism/Vedanta.html (398 words)

	Brahman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The concept of Brahman in VisishtAdvaita consists of an inseparable triad of Ishwara-Chit-Achit.
		Both the Chit (sentient objects) and Achit (insentient object) entities are pervaded and permeated by Ishwara.
		The key identifier of Brahman in VisishtAdvaita is as the Antaryami (i.e.
	enc.qba73.com /link-Brahman (2988 words)

	prof. v t tirunarayana iyengar
		Tirunarayana Iyengar (1903-1995), was a Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Mysore, a renowned scholar in Visishtadvaita - the Srivaishnava school of thought, and an acclaimed expert in Indian philosophy.
		He was popularly known as VTT among his colleagues and students in the academic world, to whom he was synonymous with knowledge and learning.
		He was born at Belatur village, his maternal home near Mysore, in the family of ‘Tiruvaimozhi Acharya Purushas’ of Melkote in the Mandya district of Karnataka, as the eldest son of Tiruvengada Ramanujachar and Yadugiri Ammal.
	www.tirunarayana.org /vtt_page.html (917 words)

	English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It underlines the fact that all misery is due to ignorance which will vanish only when supreme knowledge dawns.
		The Yatindramatadipika of Srinivasa Dasa is one of the most favourite works among the students of Visishtadvaita.
		As a compendious presentation of the epistemology, psychology, and cosmology of Visishtadvaita, this manual may be said to have no parallel among the works of its class in the system.
	www.sriramakrishnamath.org /books/elist.asp?ProductType=MA11 (431 words)

	Importance Of Bhakti (Devotion) : kamakoti.org
		Advaita, Visishtadvaita, and Dvaita are one in the emphasis on Bhakti to obtain God's grace.
		The fact that man alone, among the creatures of the world, grows vertically, where as the other creatures grow horizontally, indicates that he should also strive to grow taller in spiritual stature.
		To whatever school we belong, we should invoke that grace through Bhakti, leaving it to Him to reavel the truth of His nature.
	www.kamakoti.org /acall/ac-bhakti.html (530 words)

	On Brahmasutras and VisishtAdvaita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Another criticism made by many viSishTAdvaitins against Sankara is that his technique of adhyAropa-apavAda is not the right way to interpret scripture.
		I'm not sure if rAmAnuja himself makes this criticism, but many contemporary scholars of viSishTAdvaita do so.
		But then, if we look at the paingala upanishad, (which is quoted by Sankara in his bhAshya), yAjnavalkya teaches his disciple exactly in terms of adhyAropa-apavAda.
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/1997-October/007596.html (582 words)

	Sai Kirtan Group - Spirituality: Dasara Discourse - Who Am I? I am I
		Three centuries after him came Sri Ramanujacharya, who advocated the visishtadvaita (qualified monism) system of philosophy, which emphasised bhakti (devotion) and prapatthi (surrender) to God.
		Two centuries after Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Madhwacharya arrived on the scene and propagated the dvaita (dualism) system of philosophy emphasising the devotional path to the people vacillating between several systems of philosophy.
		One has to recognise the underlying principle behind the three schools of philosophy, namely, the advaita, the visishtadvaita, and the dvaita.
	www.sathya.org.uk /spirituality/intfetch.php?ID=38 (2349 words)

	Essence of Srivaishnavam Practices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From my standpoint the Sri Vaishnava faith and Visishtadvaita philosophy have a vital role to play in the future of this world.
		The likelihood of turning to God for a miracle is not the highest when one is facing the barrel of a gun, but when there is a sustained period of misfortune.
		I owe a debt of gratitude so large to the Tamil Alwars and to the founding fathers of Visishtadvaita that I hope they do not mind my asking these questions for you all to consider or discard.
	www.trsiyengar.com /id40.shtml (1314 words)

	Ramanuja
		Teach the doctrine of prapati (surrender) to God as the means to moksha.
		A Visishtadvaita Bhashya should be written for the Brahma Sutras of Vyasa which had previously been taught orally to the disciples of the Visishtadvaita philosophy.
		That the names of Parasara, the author of Vishnu Purana, and saint Sadagopa should be perpetuated.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ra/Ramanuja.htm (1434 words)

	Sri Vaishnava Home Page
		Sri Vaishnavism is a multifaceted tradition that has both popular and philosophical aspects.
		The central idea of Visishtadvaita is this: there exists an Ultimate Principle, an Absolute Being that is the source and substratum of all that exists.
		This immanent spirit is the inner guide and controller of the whole universe with all its diverse animate and inanimate elements.
	www.ramanuja.org (323 words)

	Neosnoia » Blog Archive » My Brain On Nonduality
		Others, like VisishtAdvaita (qualified nondualism) say that while Brahman alone exists, we (souls) and the universe are given a sort of independent existence.
		My view is closer to VisishtAdvaita than to Advaita as I believe that God manifested the cosmos from Godself out of a sort of necessity (and a desire too).
		I belive that creativity and relationality are fundamental to God’s nature and because of that, this cosmos, (with free, sentient beings that can accept or refuse love), are a logical sequence to that nature.
	neosnoia.com /?p=377 (972 words)

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