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UGC NET June 2024 History (Cancelled)
Passage
Ramanuja's God was a personal being, who was full of love for his creation. He could even override the power of Karma to draw repentant sinners to him. Unlike the impersonal world soul of Sankara, which made the illusory universe in a sort of sport, Ramanuja's God needed man as man needed God. By forcing the sense, Ramanuja interpreted the words of Krishna to imply that just as man could not live without God, so God could not live without man.
According to Ramanuja, the best means of salvation is:
AAttachment
BRitualism
CIntense devotion ✓ Correct
DAsceticism
Correct answer: (C) Intense devotion — The answer is intense devotion.
Explanation
★The answer is intense devotion.
★According to Ramanuja the best means to moksha is intense and profound bhakti.
★He propagated the philosophy of Vishishtadvaita and gave it a Vaishnava basis.
★He believed in a personal, Saguna God who could be reached through devotion.
★He held that the individual soul is real, conscious and blissful.
★He taught that the world is real, not illusory, and related to God.
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