schools of Vedanta

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Is wonder whether there are philosophical schools of Vedanta developed by

Shaivas or Shaktas.

As far as I know all philosophical traditions other than Advaita were developed

by Vaishnavas:

 

Visisthadvaita by Ramanujy

Dvaita-Advaita by Nimbarka

Dvaita by Madhva

Suddha-Advaita by Vallabha

Achintya-Bheda Bheda by Chaitanya

 

Or am I wrong and one of them was a Shaiva?

I think not.

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, akka_108 <akka_108> wrote:

> Is wonder whether there are philosophical schools of Vedanta

developed by Shaivas or Shaktas.

> As far as I know all philosophical traditions other than Advaita

were developed by Vaishnavas:

>

> Visisthadvaita by Ramanujy

> Dvaita-Advaita by Nimbarka

> Dvaita by Madhva

> Suddha-Advaita by Vallabha

> Achintya-Bheda Bheda by Chaitanya

 

 

none of these are saiva; there are several other schools but they are

usually not that famous simply coz they were not as against advaita

as were the above schools:-). but then again there are deeper

teachings in all these schools that are not commonly told to the

average practitioner. eg chaitanya himself was a believer in advaita

as can be inferred from his advice to ramamanda raya in the chaitanya

charitamrita.

 

 

but in my opinion advaita is not associated with sankara alone;

almost all the saiva schools as well as several vaishnava schools

accept advaita as the ultimate truth; tirumoolar in his tirumantiram

writes that there is no difference between siddhanta(saiva siddhanta)

and vedanta a 1000 years before sankara.

 

yogaman

>

> Or am I wrong and one of them was a Shaiva?

> I think not.

[Guest guest]

Can you give me the technical names of those philosophical systems developed by

Shaivas or Shaktas?

[Guest guest]

There is a discussion of various schools of philosophy in the

introduction to Radhakrishnan's commentary on the Bhagavad Gita.

There is also a discussion of various Saiva(the prominent ones)

schools in the book Merging with Siva by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniya

Swami.

 

yogaman

 

 

, akka_108 <akka_108> wrote:

> Can you give me the technical names of those philosophical systems

developed by Shaivas or Shaktas?