[Advaita-l] {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Advaita vs Visistadvaita summary by Vasudeva Abhyankar Shastri

[V Subrahmanian]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2025 at 12:30 PM Sudhanshu Shekhar <sudhanshu.iitk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Namaste Subbu ji.
>
>
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>> Not very sure about the meaning of the word "atyanta-bhinna". If
> exclusive existence is also connoted by "atyanta-bhinna", then true,
> jIva-jagat are not atyanta-bhinna. I am not sure that Dvaita accepts
> prithak-existence of jIva and jagat.
>

Dvaita holds that everything other than Vishnu (Brahman) has only dependent
existence, paratantra satyatvam while the former alone has swatantra
satyatvam. Their one observation is: All other systems are in some or the
other way 'advaitic'.(bhedābheda, vishishtādvaita, shuddhādvaita, achintya
bhedābheda, dvaitādvaita, ...) and hence heretic.  So, they prefer the name
'Tattvavāda'.  However, some from their own clan have suggested the name
'Swatantra advitiya Brahma vāda'.

regards
subbu

The distinction between visheshya and visheshaNa is very real in
> VishishTAdvaita. However, to explain the Shrutis, they sometimes bring
> visheshya-Brahman which is kUTastha, immutable and sometimes
> vishishTa-Brahman, who is mutable through visheshaNa.
>
> The relationship between visheshya and visheshaNa is sharIra-Atma-bhAva.
>
> Their whole model is based on following ghaTaka-Shruti -- "यस्य पृथिवी
> शरीरम्" and "यस्य आत्मा शरीरम्". Through this, the bheda-Shruti and
> abheda-Shruti are reconciled by them.
>
> Regards.
> Sudhanshu Shekhar.
>