ght against samsara but is not going to end it. Action or karma of moral ethics and truth will. (Schweitzer) Sankara strongly believed in the teacher student role. Ignorance is illusion and the student not knowing the truth of Brahman remains in samsara. (Radhakrishnan)Ramanuja is on the opposite side of non-dualism. Ramanuja believes that reality is dualistic. The Atman and the Brahman are separate. The main reason is maya is contained in atman and can not exist in the same reality with Brahman. The Ultimate Reality is infinite and maya is finite. How can a world of ignorance be contained in a world of all knowing. (Oxtoby) Ramanuja’s analogy of how a “jug contains water” was in support that Atman and Brahman are not connected. (Van Buitenen 114) There will always be a Supreme Being to the Atman no matter how devoted or free the soul is. (Radhakrishnan) Through devotion of God, a person must do the good, be non-violent, truthful, and must know that the atman is contained in the body and not connected to it. Another form of ignorance is prakrti. The soul that is connected is by will of the senses, instead of the devotion towards Brahman. Ramanuja believed Hell was in the individual. It depended on the person’s karma in their current state. If individuals are able to renounce all desires, practice bhakti (devotion)-yoga, and have good karma then they will reach Brahman. (Van Buitenen) Ramanuja teaches that “God is not bound by his acts” (114). He explains that God creates with prakrti but it is “supervised by God Himself” (115). The major concept here is Ramanuja tells us the atman does not overpower or control the Brahman. God creates and what is done with his creations are in the actions of the atman. Brahman is the Ultimate power and with what one does with what It gives decides the actions, of individuals. Madhva another teacher in Hinduism believes in a duali...
