Vishishtadvaita

Qualified monism — Ramanuja‘s framework for reading Vedanta.

Overview

The Vedantic framework developed by Ramanuja Acharya, roughly two centuries after Shankara. Ramanuja’s Gita commentary explains the text within this framework.

In Swami’s framing, Vishishtadvaita is one of three major commentarial traditions that draw from the Gita without exhausting it. Each produces genuine insight; none has a monopoly on the text.

Related concepts

• Associated with ramanuja
• Contrasts with advaita-vedanta and dvaita
• One reading of vedanta

Lecture evidence

• Ep. 1 [28:12]: Ramanuja reads the Gita within the framework of Vishishtadvaita.