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<strong>H<strong>in</strong>duism</strong>: <strong>What</strong> <strong>Really</strong> Happened <strong>in</strong> <strong>India</strong> – M. M. N<strong>in</strong>an<br />

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majority of H<strong>in</strong>du th<strong>in</strong>kers, <strong>in</strong> eternal damnation. In so do<strong>in</strong>g, he offered<br />

a concept of heaven and hell, with a third alternative: a H<strong>in</strong>du purgatory<br />

of endless transmigration of souls.<br />

Madhwa is the chief proponent of the Dvaita philosophy. Duality<br />

Philosophy postulates that there are <strong>in</strong> fact three irreducible separate<br />

entities,<br />

1. Brahman – God<br />

2. The Be<strong>in</strong>gs – Liv<strong>in</strong>g<br />

3. The Material World - Non-liv<strong>in</strong>g<br />

This is the empirical reality. There is no reason to doubt this experience.<br />

There is no <strong>in</strong>tellectual and logical reason for unity of Absolute. It is<br />

never an apriori axiom, as many would have us th<strong>in</strong>k.<br />

There is a clear dist<strong>in</strong>ction between the Creator and the Created -<br />

between Brahman and the Jagat. The tw<strong>in</strong>s that are created are the Jiva<br />

and the Ajiva - the liv<strong>in</strong>g and the non-liv<strong>in</strong>g. We differentiate between<br />

Paramatma (The ultimate Soul) and Jeevatma (The liv<strong>in</strong>g soul). Both the<br />

Be<strong>in</strong>g and the non-be<strong>in</strong>g are real.

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