Concept of mokṣa according to Dvaitādvaita Darśana

Dvaitādvaita was proposed by Nimbārka, a Vaiṣṇava Philosopher who hailed from Andhra Region. Nimbārka’s philosophical position is known as Dvaitādvaita (bhedābhedavāda).

Bondage–

The jīva has his true form distorted and obscured owing to his contact with karma resulting from ignorance, which is beginning less, but which can come to an end, by the grace of God, when it’s true nature is fully manifested. It’s a part of God.

Mukti -

To attain deliverance, the jīva has to commence with a complete submission to the paramātman, or prapatti, whose six constituents are -

1. A resolution to yield (anukūlasya saṅkalpaḥ)
2. The avoidance of opposition (pratikūlasya varjanam)
3. Faith that God will protect (rakṣiṣyati iti viśvāsaḥ);
4. Acceptance of him as saviour (goptṛtvavaraṇam);
5. Throwing one’s whole soul upon him (ātmanikṣepaḥ); and
6. A sense of helplessness (kārpaṇya)

God’s grace extends itself to those who are possessed of these 6 constituents of prapatti, i.e., who are prapanna; and by that grace is generated bhakti consisting of special love for him, which ultimately ends in the realization of (sākṣātkāra) of the paramātman.

For a devotee knowledge of the following 5 things is quite necessary:

1) The nature of the supreme soul,

2) The nature of the individual soul,

3) The fruit of God’s grace or mokṣa, (which is an uninterrupted realization of the nature and attributes of Brahman, following form the absolute destruction of all action and the consequent extinction of all sentience),

4) The feeling of enjoyment consequent on bhakti, and

5) The nature of the obstacles in the way of the attainment of God, such as regarding the body and the mind as the soul, depending on someone who is neither God nor the preceptor, neglecting their commands, and considering God as nothing more than an ordinary being.