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02B-12. Bharat Sages - Rāmānuja 1

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02B-12. Bharat Sages - Rāmānuja 1

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Rāmānuja or Sri Rāmānujacharya (रामानुज), belongs to the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedanta school of thought. He was a key leader of the Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya sect (and the foremost Jeeyar of Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya). He was born in Sri Perambudur (present-day Tamil Nadu), Chola Kingdom, South India, on April 25, 1560 BE (1017 CE). Likewise, he died in Sri Rankam, Chola Kingdom, in 1680 BE (1137 CE), at the age of 120. Furthermore, he was an Indian sage, social reformer, and the developer of one of the most important aspects of the Sri Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism. His philosophical foundations are spiritual ideas that influenced the Bhakti Movement.

Rāmānuja's teacher was Yādava Prakāśa, a scholar said to be a follower of Advaita Vedanta, but possibly a sub-sect of Bhedābheda (difference and non-difference). Hindu tradition holds that Rāmānuja disagreed with his teacher and the non-difference Advaita Vedanta, instead following in the footsteps of the Tamil Āḻvār (a priest and poet from southern India). Rāmanuja āwas a patron of the Bhakti school, along with the sages Nathamuni and Yamunacharya. He is renowned as a leading supporter of the Vishishta Dvaita Vedanta school, and his followers may have authored treatises such as the Śāṭyāyanīya Upaniṣad. Rāmānuja himself also wrote influential works such as the Sanskrit Bhasaya on the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gītā.

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