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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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