Sri Madhwacharya
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Context: The Prime Minister, paid his obeisances to Sri Madhwacharya on the occasion of Madhwa Navami.
About Sri Madhwacharya:
- He was a Hindu philosopher and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.
- Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta: There is a fundamental difference between Atman (individual soul, self) and the Brahman (ultimate reality, God Vishnu), these are two different unchanging realities, with individual soul dependent on Brahman, never identical
- He called his philosophy Tattvavāda meaning "arguments from a realist viewpoint".
- Literary work: His greatest work is Anuvyakhyana, a philosophical supplement to his bhasya on the Brahma Sutras.
- He was a critic of Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta teachings.
- Liberation, asserted Madhva, is achievable only through the grace of God.
- The Dvaita School influenced Vaishnavism, the Bhakti movement in medieval India, and has been one of the three influential Vedānta philosophies, along with Advaita Vedanta and Vishishtadvaita Vedanta.
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