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Three approaches to the one Brahman
Vedanta is not a single position. Advaita (Shankara) reads Brahman and soul as non-different; Vishishtadvaita (Ramanuja) reads them as quali…
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Moksha with the soul intact
Advaita describes liberation as the dissolution of individuality into Brahman. Dvaita disagrees: in moksha the soul keeps its identity and e…
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Three qualities that shape every choice
Sattva (clarity), rajas (restlessness) and tamas (inertia) are not personality types but proportions present in everyone, shifting with food…
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Vishnu as antaryamin, the inner ruler
Dvaita reads God's presence in the world as antaryamin — the inner controller dwelling in every being while remaining distinct from it. This…
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Why the Haridasas sang in Kannada
The Haridasa movement — Purandara Dasa, Kanaka Dasa and their successors — carried Madhwa philosophy out of Sanskrit debate halls into every…
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Four aims of a human life
Purushartha names four legitimate aims: dharma (right living), artha (livelihood), kama (desire and enjoyment) and moksha (liberation). Clas…
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Tattvavada: the doctrine of reality
Madhvacharya named his school Tattvavada — "the way of things as they are". Reality is not an illusion to be dissolved but a real order to b…
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Pancha bheda: the five real differences
Dvaita holds five differences to be eternally real: between God and soul, God and matter, one soul and another, soul and matter, and one mat…
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Svatantra and paratantra: two kinds of being
Madhvacharya's simplest division of reality has just two members: the independent (svatantra) and the dependent (paratantra). Only Vishnu is…
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Bhakti as the means and the fruit
In the Madhwa tradition bhakti is defined as steady love for God rooted in knowledge of His greatness (mahatmya-jnana-purvaka sneha). Becaus…
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The three pramanas of knowing
Dvaita accepts three means of valid knowledge: perception (pratyaksha), inference (anumana) and scripture (agama). Scripture is authoritativ…
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Karma is action, not fate
Karma names the law that action bears fruit, not a verdict fixed in advance. The Gita's counsel is therefore practical: act because action i…
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ವಾಯುಸ್ತುತಿಃ
ಶ್ರೀಮದಾನಂದತೀರ್ಥಭಗವತ್ಪಾದವಿರಚಿತಾ ನಖಸ್ತುತಿಃ ಓಂ ಪಾಂತ್ವಸ್ಮಾನ್ ಪುರಹೂತ-ವೈರಿ-ಬಲವನ್- ಮಾತಂಗ-ಮಾದ್ಯದ್-ಘಟಾ- ಕುಂಭೋಚ್ಚಾದ್ರಿ-ವಿಪಾಟನಾಧಿಕ-ಪಟು- ಪ್ರತ್ಯೇಕ-ವಜ್ರಾಯ…
- Poemby Vijaya Dasa · submitted by Tech josh
ಪಂಚರತ್ನ ಸುಳಾದಿಗಳು – ಶ್ರೀನರಸಿಂಹದೇವರ ಸ್ತೋತ್ರ ಸುಳಾದಿ (ಶ್ರೀ ವಿಜಯದಾಸರು)
ರಾಗ – ನಾಟಿ ತಾಳ – ಧ್ರುವ ವೀರ ಸಿಂಹನೆ ನಾರಸಿಂಹನೆ ದಯ ಪಾರಾ ವಾರನೆ ಭಯ ನಿವಾರಣ ನಿರ್ಗುಣ ಸಾರಿದವರ ಸಂಸಾರ ವೃಕ್ಷದ ಮೂಲ ಬೇರರಿಸಿ ಕೀಳುವ ಬಿರಿದು ಭಯಂಕರ ಘೋರವತಾರ ಕರಾಳ…
- Poemby Purandara Dasa · submitted by Tech josh
ಸುಳ್ಳು ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿಲ್ಲವಯ್ಯ
ಸುಳ್ಳು ನಮ್ಮಲ್ಲಿಲ್ಲವಯ್ಯ||2|| ಸುಳ್ಳೇ ನಮ್ಮನೆ ದೇವರು ||ಸುಳ್ಳು|| ಇಲಿಯು ಒಲೆಯ ಹಚ್ಚುದ ಕಂಡೆ ಬೆಕ್ಕು ಭಕ್ಕರಿ ಮಾಡುದಕಂಡೆ ||ಇಲಿಯು|| ಮೆಣಸಿನಕಾಯಿ ಕಂಡೇನಪ್ಪ ಒಣಕೆ…
- Poemby Purandara Dasa · submitted by Rajeev Joshi
ನಾನೇನ ಮಾಡಿದೆನೋ ರಂಗಯ್ಯ ರಂಗ ನೀ ಎನ್ನ ಕಾಯಬೇಕೋ
ಕಲ್ಯಾಣಾದ್ಬುತಗಾತ್ರಾಯ ಕಾಮಿತಾರ್ಥ ಪ್ರದಾಯಿನೇ| ಶ್ರೀಮದ್ ವೆಂಕನಾಥಾಯ| ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸಾಯತೇ ನಮಃ|| ನಾನೇನ ಮಾಡಿದೆನೋ ರಂಗಯ್ಯ ರಂಗ ನೀ ಎನ್ನ ಕಾಯಬೇಕೋ ॥ ಪ ॥ ಮಾನಾಭಿಮಾನವು …
- Poemby Purandara Dasa · submitted by Rajeev Joshi
ನಾರಾಯಣ ನಿನ್ನ ನಾಮದ ಸ್ಮರಣೆ
ನಾರಾಯಣ ನಿನ್ನ ನಾಮದ ಸ್ಮರಣೆಯ ಸಾರಾಮೃತವು ಎನ್ನ ನಾಲಿಗೆಗೆ ಬರಲಿ || ಕಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿರಲಿ ಉತ್ಕೃಷ್ಟದಲ್ಲಿರಲಿ ಎಷ್ಟಾದರೂ ಮತಿಗೆಟ್ಟು ಇರಲಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಕೃಷ್ಣ ಎಂದು ಶಿಷ್ಟರು ಪೇಳ…