Tattvavada, Tattvavāda, Tattva-vada: 1 definition

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Vedanta (school of philosophy)

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Tattvavāda (तत्त्ववाद) (now known as dvaita-vedānta) is a sub-school in the Vedanta tradition of Hindu philosophy. The term Tattvavāda literally means “arguments from a realist viewpoint”. The Tattvavāda (Dvaita) Vedānta sub-school was founded by the 13th-century Indian philosopher-saint Madhvācārya. Madhvācārya believed in three entities: God, Jīva (soul), and Jaḍa (māyā, matter). The Dvaita Vedānta school believes that God and the individual souls (jīvātman) exist as independent realities, and these are distinct, being said that Viṣṇu (Nārāyaṇa) is independent (svatantra), and souls are dependent (paratantra) on him.

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Vedanta (वेदान्त, vedānta) refers to a school of orthodox Hindu philosophy (astika), drawing its subject-matter from the Upanishads. There are a number of sub-schools of Vedanta, however all of them expound on the basic teaching of the ultimate reality (brahman) and liberation (moksha) of the individual soul (atman).

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