Vedanta - Discussion Forum I (introductory))

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Those who follow Jnana marga find Shankara's Kevalaadvaita model admirable. Those who do japa and dhyana of Sagun Brahman do not like Shankara's model. After all why should anyone do japa of an ultimately unreal Saguna Brahman? It is from this perspective that Ramakrishna model, which incidentally is close to Tantric model, is very useful.

As an aside we all know the advatic explanation of TAT TWAM ASI.

Ramanujacharya says that this mahavakya means: Narayana with individual jivas as body = Narayana with the entire universe as the body.

Madhavacharya says that the Advaitists and Vishsitadvaitists have gotten the Mahavakya completely wrong. Actually it is ATAT TWAM ASI. It means Vishnu (Brahman) is eternally different from Jiva.