Aprthak-Siddhibhava: With Special Reference to Ramanuja’s Metaphysics

Brahman in Ramanuja’s philosophy is not a non-relational and non-differentiated bare being, but a living reality, a relational whole, who is inseparably related with the order of individual self (cit) and of matter (acit). Thus the relation of inseparability (aprthak-siddhi-bhava) is fundamental to Ramanuja’s metaphysics. In fact it is the central concept around which Ramanuja’s whole philosophy revolves. Thus it is both possible and fruitful to view Ramanuja’s metaphysics through the perspective of this unique relation of inseparability. In this book such an attempt is critically carried out. This book is a critical account on Ramanuja Vedanta and it will be useful to the teachers, students, scholars and general readers of philosophy.