Sri Vaishnava Philosophy - Part A
Perumal Pirati Thiruvadigale Saranam|| Azhwar Emperumanar Jeer Swamy Desikan Thiruvadigale Saranam|| Before we learn about Azhwars and their creations let's try to understand the various philosophies and terminologies in Sri Vaishnavam. It's a little complex to understand concepts and one should go more in depth to have clear understanding. Adiyen will try my level best to simply and present it here. However we can into the details during our future journey of this learning. What is Visishtadvaidam? Let's try to understand Visishtadvaidam which was defined and established by Bhagavad Ramanujar and is the basis for Sri Vaishnavam. 1. Lets start with our understanding of soul & body. Everyone can feel that there is something beyond our physical body which gives us life. We won't be able see this but can be felt. That innermost invisible atomic structure is called "soul" or "atma". The body we call it as sareeram and every "atma" takes a...