Ramanuja · Theology

The Path of Love and Surrender

For Ramanuja, the way to God is not solitary knowledge but loving devotion (bhakti) maturing into total self-surrender (prapatti) - and the decisive power on that path is not the soul’s effort but God’s grace.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that for Ramanuja liberation comes through bhakti (loving meditative devotion, cultivated through knowledge and works) and supremely through prapatti (unconditional self-surrender to God’s grace). Reconstruct why a personal God of love makes relationship , not solitary insight, the highest path - and the r…

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