Bhedabheda

Bhedabheda

Bhedābheda Vedānta is one of the several traditions of Vedānta philosophy in India. “Bhedābheda” is a Sanskrit word meaning “Difference and Non-Difference.” The characteristic position of all thedifferent Bhedābheda Vedānta schools is that the individual self (jīvātman) is both different and notdifferent from the ultimate reality known as Brahman. Bhedābheda reconciles the positions of two othermajor schools of Vedānta. The Advaita (Non-dual) Vedānta that claims the individual self is completelyidentical to Brahman, and the Dvaita (Dualist) Vedānta that teaches complete difference between theindividual self and Brahman. However, each thinker within the Bhedābheda Vedānta tradition has his ownparticular understanding of the precise meanings of the philosophical terms “difference” and“non-difference.” Bhedābheda Vedāntic ideas can traced to some of the very oldest Vedāntic texts,including quite possibly Bādarāyaṇa’s Brahma Sūtra (app. 4th c. CE). Bhedābheda ideas also had anenormous influence on the devotional (bhakti) schools of India’s medieval period. Among medievalBhedābheda thinkers are Nimbārka (13th Century CE), founder of the Nimbārka Sampraday which is now centred in Vrindāvan, Vallabha (1479-1531 CE), founder of the Puṣṭimārga devotional sect now centeredin Nathdwara, Rajasthan, and Caitanya (1485-1533 CE) the founder of the Gaudīya Vaiṣṇava sect based inthe northeastern Indian state of West Bengal.

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