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== Brahman as in Different Sampradayas ==
== Brahman as in Different Sampradayas ==
Everyone of the vedantic system-builders - Sri Shankara, Ramanujacharya, Madhavacharya and others-has followed his own standpoint in his commentary of the Upanishads, bringing a mind illumined, directed by his own individual spiritual experience and interpreted all the passages to uphold his position and popularize the system of thought he expounded.<ref>Swami Madhavananda author of A Bird's-Eye View of the Upanishads (1958) ''The Cultural Heritage of India, Volume 1 : The Early Phases (Prehistoric, Vedic and Upanishadic, Jaina and Buddhist).'' Calcutta : The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. (Pages 333-344)</ref>
Everyone of the vedantic system-builders - Sri Shankara, Ramanujacharya, Madhavacharya and others-has followed his own standpoint in his commentary of the Upanishads, bringing a mind illumined, directed by his own individual spiritual experience and interpreted all the passages to uphold his position and popularize the system of thought he expounded.<ref>Swami Madhavananda author of A Bird's-Eye View of the Upanishads (1958) ''The Cultural Heritage of India, Volume 1 : The Early Phases (Prehistoric, Vedic and Upanishadic, Jaina and Buddhist).'' Calcutta : The Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. (Pages 333-344)</ref>
Key Differences
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|+Key Differences of Brahman in Vedanta and Shastras
!Concept
!Advaita
!Dvaita
!Vishistadvaita
!Samkhya
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|Concept of Brahman
|Nirguna
|Saguna
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|Who is Brahman
|Attributeless without Name and Form
|Vishnu is Supreme Deity
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|Real and Unreal
|Brahman is Real, Samsara is Unreal
|Both Brahman and Samsara are Real
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|Efficient cause of the Universe (effect)
|Cause and effect are one and the same Brahman
|Vishnu is the efficient cause
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|Advocates Unity of Atma and Brahman
|Yes
|No
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|Origin of the Universe
|From Brahman through Maya
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|Realization Method
|Atma transcending Avidya
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|Moksha Method
|Jnana that Jivatma and Paramatma are One
|Attainment of
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'''Nirguna Brahma (Advaita)'''
'''Nirguna Brahma (Advaita)'''