Ramanuja teaches Vishishtadvaita

1112

The South Indian Vaishnava philosopher Ramanuja, working from the Srirangam temple on the Kaveri, refined his doctrine of qualified non-dualism as a counterweight to Shankara's stricter monism. His devotional theology would become one of the principal strands of Hindu philosophy. Ramanuja's insistence that the divine was accessible through love rather than knowledge alone opened the path for the great bhakti devotional movements that would sweep across India in later centuries.