YSA 06.15.22 Scriptural Topic with Hersh Khetarpal
Dvaita, Advaita, Vishishtadvaita
Dvaita - by philosophy states that God and the living entity are eternally Two. Advaita philosophy states that God and the living entity are in actuality eternally One. The actual fact is that both philosophies are correct. The philosophy which synthesizes them both is known as Acintya Bhedabheda Tattva.
Advaita - by Adi Sankracharya - Vedantic nondualism that denies the separateness of any aspect of reality from the impersonal oneness of Brahma.
Vishishtadvaita - (Sanskrit: “Qualified Non-dualism” or “Non-dualism of the Qualified”) one of the principal branches of Vedanta, a system (darshan) of Indian philosophy. This school grew out of the Vaishnava (worship of the god Vishnu) movement prominent in South India from the 7th ce century on.
Dvaita Vedanta is a much younger school, founded by Madhvacharya in the 1200s C.E. It posits that Paramatman, the Supreme Self or God, is separate and fundamentally different from Jivatman, the individual souls of created beings.
Advaita Vedanta, most famously taught by Shankaracharya, holds that Paramatman and Jivatman are fundamentally identical, and all reality is an interconnected oneness. Advaita Vedanta is the majority philosophy of Hindu tradition, but Dvaita still has its followers.
