Ramanuja, the profoundly influential 11th-12th century Vaishnava saint, was himself influenced by the 8th century girl-saint Andal, ... God belongs to everyone. Don’t you see, ...

In the 1970s, my predecessor at the Center for the Study of World Religions, John Carman, wrote The Theology of Ramanuja, a landmark study, while Julius Lipner wrote with great insight and acumen ...

Ramanuja’s God is not an impersonal absolute but a personal Lord, creator, sustainer, and dissolver of worlds, who by his boundless grace descends into embodied forms and deigns to dwell in ...

Andal Jayanti 2024 was on August 7. Ramanuja, the profoundly influential 11th-12th century Vaishnava saint, was himself influenced by the 8th century girl-saint ...

In Srivaikunta-gadya, Ramanuja dreams of the kingdom of God in the everlasting companionship and communion with the Divine Being. His last work, Nitya-grantha, is a manual for worshipping the deity.

Ramanuja, on the other hand, was more pragmatic in making people understand divinity. He also ensured that everyone understood that God was not the purview of a select few but belonged to all: ...

Ramanuja’s eighteen guidelines for a disciple - Ramanuja, ... Unless and until devotion to God arises, the taste for worldly enjoyments will not be extinguished; 8.

Ramanuja, who founded Vishisht Advaita school of Vedantic thought, was a seeker when he was an acharya; he was an acharya when he was a guru, a rare combination in Indic spiritual tradition. The ...

Deconstructing Brahmn Through Devotion - Ramanuja’s position in Vedantic metaphysics is unique in its attempt to resolve the nature of reality, the ontological paradox of reality as ‘one and ...

Ramanuja inspired the practice of Bhakti Yoga, a spiritual practice within Hinduism centered on devotion to an individual God. The 9 most famous works of Ramanuja are known as Navratnas.