Naimisaranya Das
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Language: EnglishPages: 252 (Throughout B/W Illustrations)Back of the Book At the time of the Norman Conquest a revolution took place in the religious
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life of medieval India. A ware of devotion to Visnu, the one Supreme Lord of the Vedas, spread across the entire subcontinent. Spearheading this movement was a philosopher, saint and devotee – Ramanuja. Herein is described his life and teachings, his struggles against prejudice and persecution, and above all his purity and deep love of God. From the Jacket Ramanujacarya (1017-1137) was the principal acarya in the Sri Sampradaya, one of the four main lines of Vaisnava teachers and disciples. His Vedanta-sutra commentary – Sri-bhasya-establishes the doctrine knows as Visistadvaita, ";qualified nondualism."; A staunch proponent of the philosophy of personalism, he taught that although the Supreme Lord and the individual souls are qualitatively one,
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