Ubhayavedānta

By Swami Harshananda

Ubhayavedānta literally means ‘Vedānta that accepts both’.

Vedānta has branched off into three main streams:

Advaita
Viśiṣṭādvaita
Dvaita

Unlike the Advaita and the Dvaita philosophies which accept only the prasthānatraya to be authoritative, the Viśiṣṭādvaita of Rāmānuja^[1] accords equal status to the Sanskrit prasthānatraya to the Divyaprabandham.^[2] Hence it is called Ubhayavedānta. Ubhayavedānta is the Vedānta that accepts both the authorities.

References[edit]

↑ Rāmānuja lived in A. D. 1017-1137.
↑ Divyaprabandham is the Tamil works of the Ālvārs.

The Concise Encyclopedia of Hinduism, Swami Harshananda, Ram Krishna Math, Bangalore

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[1] Rāmānuja lived in A. D. 1017-1137.

[2] Divyaprabandham is the Tamil works of the Ālvārs.

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