From the Bhakti List Archives
Mani Varadarajan
• Thu Jul 15 1999 - 12:05:53 PDT
Murali Kadambi wrote:
> However just as Sankara's philosophy can also been called mAyA vAda and
> Madhwa's has been variously called bhEda vAda and tattva vAda, I wonder
> what vAda, RAmAuja' philosophy is called? may be sareerAtma-brahma
> vAda? I don't know.
I have seen Ramanuja's system described as 'saviSesha-brahma-vAda',
(one that teaches that Ultimate Reality as attributes), or simply
'viSishtAdvaita-vAda'.
The term viSishtAdvaita is first seen in the works of Sudarsana
Suri and Vedanta Desika (13th-14th centuries), and even there only
in their secondary works.
Mani
