The Difference Between Advaita and Vishishta Advaita | Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The Difference Between Advaita and Vishishta Advaita
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[@ausexit9567]

High pitch ring can be filtered during post production

[@rock5989]

Somewhere i red that "Our path should be vishista-adwaitha and our goal should be adwaita". Means we should have devotion and love towards God that devotion should be so intense that your devotion will compel God make you part of him.

[@chellams8611]

yes,we need both bhakti and jnana.both are inseparable.

[@anupam2745]

Beautiful ❤

[@dudleyriggs4710]

excellent info, thank you!

[@mainakmukuherjee5727]

Big love .. well Said!

[@PrashantBhilare7227]

जय गुरुदेव

[@jayeshdivekar8607]

so beautifully explained gurudev. thanks🥰

[@extrateachpoint2231]

Jai Gurudev 🙏🙏🙏

[@lakshmilekha6075]

Very beautifully explained. Very simple to understand the difference between Advaita n Dwaita with this explanation.

[@leelaramachandran6770]

Namo Narayanaya

[@pntruth]

All three are levels in the spiritual journey.

[@yashcharwekar3238]

जय गुरुदेव रेखा चार्वेकर🙏🙏

[@LizRodriguezZarate]

Buen día JRD

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Jeevatma and paramatma are different not one it is very clearly told and preached by Ramanuja

[@manishjay9403]

OM SAI RAMJI🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@MrNikhilgherwar]

aaj ka dan done!

[@artinmotion1356]

🙏❤️

[@raveendranalikkal2168]

Jgd

[@rvinspiration5580]

👍🙏🙏👏👌

[@p20415672]

What's the background noise

[@selfseeker143]

Dwaitha, Vishishta Adwaitha, Advaitha are levels of spirtual journey. When you identify yourself with the body, mind - That is dwaitha When you identify yourself as Athman, part of god (same quality but differs in quantity) - That is Vishishta Adwaitha When you identify your self as Paramathama, absolute reality of consciousness bliss - then that is advaitha. Identifying as a small part of god is the work of mind and intellect, still you are thinking from the mind perception, small big , good bad are all the perceptions of the mind. Athman and Parmatma are the same thing. Adi Shankaracharya explained it with a simile. A pot was drowned in a sea, First it identified itself with the mud and shape of that pot. Next after gaining knowledge said the water inside me is "me" and the water outside me is sea. Still it is thinking from the pot perception and limiting itself, but both the water inside and outside are the same. When you reach a level, where there is no mind, then that is the true self realization, there will be no knower, knowing, seer, seen. There is only "Existence conciousness bliss"(Sath- Chith- Ananda). It is the same as deep sleep state, where there is no space and time, nothing exists, but the difference is in deep sleep you are not experiencing yourself, there is no awareness. But in samdhi state there will be awareness and bliss. This is the verse from kathopanishad "Ya yeshu supteshu jaagarthe" That one who is awake(has awareness) in the sleep is the Brahman.

[@mariaquercia8573]

thanks for this! I don't understand sanskrit or hindi! This comment is very useful in order to understand what Gurudev is saying! I'm asking...did you translate what He says or are these your words? thanks in advanced.

[@selfseeker143]

@@mariaquercia8573 This knowledge is all from my guru Ramana Maharshi, 19th century self relaized sage. I recommend you to read Ramana Maharshii talks, Yoga vashishta & Ashtavakra gita. They are available in English pdf. Then you can easily understand Bhagavat gita and Upanishads.

[@mariaquercia8573]

@@selfseeker143 excellent 💖👏🏻

[@msm695]

Beautifully and briefly explained ….clearly.🙏❤️ Thank you so much

[@subhashree4917]

jgd ✨🙏✨🌿😇🌷aum ✨

[@MR071061308]

👍

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Mukti is of types saaroopya, saameepya and saayujya bestowed by the lord to the ones who totally surrender to him

[@patriciaarellano1763]

No entiendo si no es en español

[@Pankajhpatel]

🙏🙏🙏

[@AbhishekSharma-mj7nd]

Means dvait is a water which is present in the bottle and advait is the water as well as the whole bottle ?

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

A little learning is a dangerous thing

[@barathvenkatachalam7068]

🔥🔥🔥🕉️🕉️🕉️

[@haracanechan]

Sometimes 🤗 worry too 😝

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

There are types of jeevas like the baddhas, the muktas the bonded ones and the liberated

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

The nityyas or the nitya soori vargas live with the lord para Vasudeva eternally

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

The book Life of Ramanuja by ramakrishna mutt clarifies this better

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

No one is ultimate or flawless except the supreme lord para bramhan completely different from this Brahma

[@greenarrow7699]

Why Ravi Sankar always says .. Everything is just a story.?

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Every creation of God is not mithya it is real, a reality

[@muralidharanev4960]

When one is in saadhana path one will understand what's dwaita,vishishtaadwaith,adwaith. Otherwise one will be fighting each other

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Jeeva is jnana Ananda maya

[@nuthakantirohan4685]

the way i see it all the three people i,e shankarachrya,ramanujacha and madhva charya have derived their work from vedas and upanishads and bhagvdhgita but reached their own conclusions. and ifnyone has to say that one philosophy is greater than other philosophy they have to reach that conclusion bu themselves after reading each and every line in vedas and exactly with the same rules in the philosophy then and only then will they can truly say one is superior than other

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Study carefully Ramanuja correctly predicts the vedas and the Brahma sutras

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Later Vedanta Desika solidifies Ramanuja Philosophy

[@advanantpachade4152]

अद्वैत को समझना या अंगीकार करना थोडा कठीण हो जाता है । विशिष्ठाद्वैत थोडा आसान है । तो परम और चित शक्ती और जीव ऐसे माने तो भक्ती व साधना आसान हो जाता है । 🙏🕉🙏🌹🌹🌹🙏 जय गुरुदेव 🙏

[@be_cool_like_a_yogi]

It is not about easy or difficult if the goal is to know the absolute truth

[@AryanSingh-zg4ri]

Visita advait advait se upar Hain. Nahi to mandir ki koi wajah nhi hai wo to bas Brahma hi hai tum bhi Brahma ho. Sb barabar. Lekin jb tum tirupati jaoge visitaadvait ki bhumi pe to tumhe pata chalega ki wahan ki shaktiya alag hai aur wo param brahm ko batata hai. Isiliye visitaadvait upar hai

[@chandlerhbk08]

​​@@AryanSingh-zg4ri You're right Ek jivan mukt ko mandir ki avashyakta nahi hai. Parantu ek sadharan vyakti, jo ki vyavaharik satya mein jee Raha hai, uske liye mandir jaana, ishvar ki pooja karna avashyak hai. Kyuki ye Brahm tak pahuchne ka marg hai. Parantu ant mein, wo ek maarg hi hai. Manzil phir bhi Advaita hi hai

[@AryanSingh-zg4ri]

@@chandlerhbk08 phir tumhe Gita thik se padhne ki jarurat hai. brahma-bhutah prasannatma na socati na kanksati samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhaktim labhate param TRANSLATION One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me. Bhakti to para hai to phir mandir bhi para hai. Aur jab insaan Brahma bhut ho jata ho phir Advaita antim Satya nahi hai.

[@chandlerhbk08]

@@AryanSingh-zg4ri this shloka is pure Advaita. Bhakti kar ke brahman ko paa sakte ho. That's what I said. Bhakti will lead to purification of the senses. Which will eventually lead to "realisation" of the Supreme Brahman. Yahan "realisation" ka kya matlab hai?? Kya realise karna hai?? The word "realisation" only associates with Advaita. "Realisation" that you and brahman are one.

[@ronakshah13]

That bug though…

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Saheb teeno ek nahi, the supreme lord is different from the jeeva, the prakruthi is his creation

[@waldwassermann]

It's called biodiversity for something.

[@beingbharat1969]

Vedas r abt life, god, rituals that we need to perform to exist... Vedas r retold in Upanishads. Then these r retold in Bagwad Gita. I mean as time went on as per contemporary understanding of human being Vedas were retold. They were retold as human begin to forget or bring new interpretations. Krishna asked to take bhakti, Action, knowledge to conduct life and reach god. He emphasized on Action..Karma yoga ( Arjuna n krishna were action heros). Sankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madhavaacrya retold Vedas following specific interpretation. Then, Vivekananda said "Arise , awake and stop not till u achieve" as message of Gita. and then Bal Gangadhar retold Gita. Tilak said Jago, Karo, Lado, don't sit idle and talk. Sankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madhavaacrya didn't fight or contradict each other . We should see that they moved little further earlier acharayas interpretations n message.

[@UserNameIsLost1]

The most interesting part was in hindu? I managed to understand separate words, but what IS the difference between Advaita and Vaishista Advaita according to Guru?

[@VirenderSingh-bi4dn]

'Advaita with devotion is vishishta Advaita'

[@Dharmicaction]

Too many fake interpretations of original Advaitha and Dvaitha took place during colonial times by the creation of non existent figures like Ramanuja and Madavacharya out of thin air to promote blind bakthi movements which can mimic Abrahamic religions.

[@btsarmy-mn5fc]

@@Dharmicaction okay so ramanuja and madhavacharya are fake

[@abhisheksomani359]

@@btsarmy-mn5fc he is talking nonsense

[@xyzw1974]

In Vedas, there are Bedha- Sruthi (God and soul are different), Abedha-Sruthi (God and soul are not different) and Kataka-Sruthi (God and soul are connected, but not same). Each acharya followed the respective theories. The world is false is as per advaitha. As per visistadvaitha the world is not permanant , but not false. Two examples can explain the difference When you are awake - Dwaitha You are in sleep but still dreaming - visitadvaitha You are completly sleeping without any external feel - Advaitha Shree Ramakrishna paramahamsa said ‘food is before a person - here food and person are different (dwaitha). Person eats food but it is in his stomach (visitadhvaitha) . Person eats food and it gets digested (advaitha) There are questions asked against advaitha by Ramanjuna. One of interesting one. Advaitha says soulc comes out of ‘maya’ becomes brahmam? Now question was how first of all this ‘maya’ came to brahmam. Is ‘maya’ another entity? If so ‘advaitha’ will be questioned since as there are two objects ‘brahmam’ and ‘maya’ Is ‘Maya’ is an attribute of brahmam? If so, ‘niruguna brahmam will be questioned as brahmam has guna called ‘maya’. By the method of contradition the theory was not correct. Even shankaracharya written numerous bakthi slokas. The main reason through bakthi only the ego could vanish. Once ego vanishes the sould comes out as pure. That pure sould mingles with supreme. Often, neo- advaithins who are just there to prove their intellectual supremacy completely avoid Shree Shankara’s this bakthi attitude. By shear massaging the intellecutal thirst their ego further deepens. Hence they further go inside maya. If you are advaithin, bakthi and surrender towards God is the most important. Shre madhusudhaa saraswathi famous and deep intellect advaithic saint from Bengal was deep Krishan devotee. He had uncompromising devotion towards krishna and had written famous scholorly text called ‘advaitha siddhi’

[@nitya0912]

its not bramha satya jagat mithya.........its brahma SATT jagat mithya................ theres difference between SATTYA AND SATT

[@pranjalpathak115]

(१)ब्रह्म को क्यों ऐसे जगत के रचने की इच्छा होती हैं, जिसमे दुःख ही दुःख हैं और फिर स्वयं ही उस से मुक्ति पाने के लिए श्रुति स्मृति द्वारा उपदेश दिलवाता हैं (२) यदि यह कहा जाये की जगत और उसके अंतर्गत सुख दुःख सब मिथ्या और भ्रम रुप ही हैं, केवल एक ज्ञान स्वरुप ब्रह्म ही सत्य हैं तो ब्रह्म ने इस भ्रम को क्यों फैलाया और निर्भ्रांत ब्रह्म में भ्रम कैसा? (३) अविद्या से ब्रह्म जगत की रचना करता हैं और अविद्या ब्रह्म से अभिन्न हैं फिर अविद्या और जगत से छुटकारा कैसे संभव हो सकता हैं? (४) ब्रह्म की शक्ति रुप अविद्या से जगत की उत्पत्ति हैं, इसलिए विद्या अर्थात ज्ञान द्वारा ही इससे मुक्ति हो सकती हैं, किन्तु अविद्या के अंतर्गत होने के कारण सारे साधन श्रुति और स्मृति भी अविद्या रुप ही होंगे विद्या और ज्ञान ब्रह्म से बाहर कहाँ से लाया जा सकता हैं (५) सर्वज्ञ ज्ञानस्वरुप ब्रह्म की शक्ति माया अर्थात अविद्या नहीं होनी चाहिए प्रत्युत निर्भ्रांत विद्या और सत्य ज्ञान होना चाहिए (६) और यदि उसमे संसार के रचने की इच्छा भी हो तो वह निर्भ्रांत विद्या और सत्य ज्ञान के साथ हो न की माया और अविद्या के साथ (७) मदारी पैसा कमाने अथवा अपने से बड़े आदमियों को खुश करने के प्रयोजन से शोबदे और तमाशे दिखलाता है आप्तकाम ब्रह्म को इस मायाजाल के फैलाने में प्रयोजन क्या है? (८) यदि अपनी महिमा और प्रभुता दिखलाने लिए, तो यह किसको दिखलाना? जब की एक ब्रह्म के सिवा दूसरा कोई है ही नहीं (९) यदि अपनी प्रभुता और महिमा दिखलाने के लिए जीवों को उत्पन्न करता है तो इस प्रकार की महिमा और प्रभुता दिखलाने की अभिलाषा होना ही महिमा और प्रभुता के अभाव को सिद्ध करता है (१०) यदि बिना किसी अपने विशेष प्रयोजन के ब्रह्म द्वारा संसार की रचना केवल जीवों के कल्याण अर्थात भोग और अपवर्ग के लिए स्वाभाविक मानी जाये तो यह सांख्य और योग का ही सिद्धांत आगया

[@remonahmed4390]

Creation is not (anadi). Only God is (Anadi).

[@Dharmicaction]

But the universe is made up of shakthi which cannot be created or destroyed but it can change from one form to another ( duality cycle) in combination with formless and conscious divine which is immanent (athma), transcendent and omnipresent. Point is shiva (athma/brahman) and Shakthi (intelligent energy) always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen. So, Advaitha (non dual shiva) and Dvaitha (dual shakthi) are incomplete without each other.

[@khonyeleaglefergumedov9175]

@@Dharmicaction there was nothing before creation only brahman no shakti/energy etc but i see your point tho

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Also study the prasanga between Ramanuja and Yadava prakasha

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Sri Bhashyam is the authentic document, please read it

[@krishnakopal7596]

Advaitham : f(I)=Body and I=f_Inverse(Body)=1 Dvaitham: f(I)Body and If_Inverse(Body)=0 Vishishtadvaitham: f(I)=Body and I=f_Inverse(Body) and f(I)Body and If_Inverse(Body)=0 Easvaran in (1,0) Dvaitham & Vishishtadvaitham depends on Advaitham; Advaitham does NOT depend on Dvaitham or Vishishtadvaitham. Asathyam depends on something; Sathyam does NOT depend on anything.

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

This is all known to this world nobody can make it false or untrue all proven facts

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

The supreme lord is akhilaanda koti brahmanda Nayaka, para, different from Vasudeva, residing in Srivaikuntha in nitya vibhooti totally away from the Leela vibhooti, the sacred river Viraja separates these two vibhooti s , one who crosses the Viraja river will never come back or takes birth again

[@AryanSingh-zg4ri]

This is totally wrong, Advait with visista. If visista is there then how they can be one? If they were one like how you say then how come soul got trapped in Maya, and how Maya overpowers the soul?

[@AryanSingh-zg4ri]

Duniya mein sab copy hi krte hain. Abhi tum mujhe batao Tumne tattva ko dekha hai, tumne realise Kiya hai? Agar Kiya hota to yaha KZbin PE mere comment PE reply to nahi krta. Agar nahi kiya hai to bata kiska copy kr rha hai?

[@AryanSingh-zg4ri]

@@RahulSingh-qg2nu tu ye bata rha tha ki main kiska dialogue copy krta hun or abhi safai pesh kr rha hai. Beherhaal mujhe mere sawaal ka to jawaab bhi nhi mila

[@onlinesaidasa9105]

Namaste अर्धश्लोकेन प्रवक्ष्यामि यदुक्तं ग्रंथ कोटिभिः। ब्रह्म सत्यं जगन्मिथ्या जीवो ब्रह्मैव नाऽपरः In half a verse do I declare the summary of a crore scriptures. Universal consciousness is the Truth, World is an illusion. The Individual Consciousness is non different from the Universal Consciousness. Adi Shankaracharya

[@RockAndDoubleBassWithAaronJoy]

I've been told the stories are 100% real, legit, etc. I'm halfway through the 7 volume Ramayana by Valmiki and its hard to take it literally true at times. Not to mention how they are supposedly the exact words of god, cause the translation needs an editor. God certainly has the ability to structure a story better than what I'm reading. I've been told the sanskrit is better, but that would imply the translation is nearly wrong as the repetition, descriptions, etc are all horrible. So, the translations just made stuff up and repeated things, when the original wasn't like that. Hard to believe. So, while I want them to be true, I find it hard to believe they are true.

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

You cannot subdue this reality, please study the story of Ghantakarna and his stuti to the Lord

[@rajamnaidu1962]

Guru ji if you don't believe Hanuman devotion and talk logic then there is no point.

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Aham Brahma is not correct, jeeva is not brahman or the supreme lord, he is his servant

[@ananthanarayanasarmakuntim9734]

Shankara s philosophy is misleading and Ramanuja corrected it in every stage

[@brajarao8816]

What is there to dislike the video...Can anyone of you speak like that?

[@dariusrezai8864]

Starts off speaking English then changes it Hindi all the time

[@narayanaswamyrao2695]

Visishta vedanta of Ramanuja nothing but replica of Adi shankara's Advaita. Madhwacharya's Dwaita is entirely different from both. Dwaita siddhanta seems to b perfect and correct at all levels.

[@pntruth]

Man should start with Dwaitha, then enter into vishishta advaitha later merge into Advaitha.They are levels of spiritual journey.

[@shrijagannatha1234]

Adwaita is the original. In upanishads , vedas gitas and puranas, everywhere its adwaita. At first one enters into dwaita , then vishistadwaita and then adwaita. Adwaita is the most perfect and scientific

[@srujanrated5633]

@@shrijagannatha1234 advait pandits never won / will win against dvait pandits. It may not be likeable to u but check the past history. Even today they can't win. But at the present scenario, we don't need to discuss bcoz we have to save all our culture (all 3 vedanta) against external world's religions.

[@shrijagannatha1234]

@@srujanrated5633 oo. its the adwait pandits who won . not dwait pandits

[@DragonBallzMoviesHD]

@@shrijagannatha1234 advaita is already refuted by many as Buddhist concepts. Madhvacharya defeated every advaitins single handedly in debates