sir, friends, Firstly all the three philosophies were written at different times,the oldest being advita by adi shankara,as per him paramatma ie parabrahmam consists of all gods and every one can worship the god of their belief.the jeevatma is also part of the same parabrahma and can be realised by any individual who can make an attempt at it.the jeevatma becomes part of paramatma ones it realises it.the jeevanmuktas come under this SRI RAMANUJAR WHO ESTABLISHED the vishistadvaita as an alternate to Advaita,because he did not accept jivatma being real and only paramatma was real,and named it as vishnu(narayana). This is totally wrong because,as per advaita the PARAMATMA is PARABRAHMAM.did he object to the worship of anya devatas namely shiva and brahma?.othervise he would have spelt it out clearly.Even adishankara who re-established advaita,knew that parabrahmam is also narayana,as can be seen in his compositions like Baja govindam and govindahtakam.Right from the begining advaita philosophers were not against worship of vishnu, and considered anya devatas as part of parabrahmam.whereas the followers of ramanuja say that anyadevata worship is against the basic principle of visishtadvaita.I don't think this may be correct.A great philosopher like Sri ramanujar would not have said this.Can any one say why the iyengars in tamilnad do not visit shiva temples.(i mean staunch visishtadvaitins)or why there are no iyergars in kerala brahmins. cdr bvn
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