Ramanuja · Theology

Seven Wounds in the Illusion

Ramanuja’s most famous polemic: seven devastating objections (the saptavidha-anupapatti) against the doctrine that the world is maya - an illusion produced by ignorance. The illusion theory, he argues, cannot survive its own questions.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned Ramanuja’s sevenfold attack ( saptavidha-anupapatti ) on Advaita’s avidya /maya: he asks where ignorance resides, what it conceals, how it could veil a self-luminous Brahman, and how a mere illusion could ever be removed. Reconstruct two or three of the seven and the underlying strategy: turn the illusion…

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