Dvaita Vedanta Darsana of Sri Madhvacharya

Contents Foreword iii Preface v Chapter1 1 Introduction 1 Chapter II 8 Dvaita Metaphysics and Ontology 8 The Scope and the Problems of Metaphysics 8 The Main Features of Realism 10 The Realism of Dvaita Vedanta the Concept of a Supreme Reality 11 Reality of the Objective World 13 Criteria of Reality 14 Objections against the Reality of the world 16 Sruti supports the reality of the World 18 The Supreme Reality : Brhaman-Visnu 19 Brahman is the Agent but not the material cause 21 Brahman is Gunapurna 24 God has Form 25 Dvaita Scheme of Ontology 26 The Concepts of Space and Time 28 Jivas i.e. Individual Souls 28 Pluralism of Dvaita 30 Dvaita Theory of Causation 34 Chapter III 37 Dvaita Epistemology 37 Nature of Knowledge 37 The Concepts of Saksin and Svarupajnana 38 Memory is Vaild Knowledge 39 Kevalapramana and Anupramana 39 Hierarchy of Knowledge 40 Some Special Points of Dvaita Theory of Knowledge 40 The Process of Perception 41 Inference - Some special points introduced by Dvaita 42 Agama Praman - Some Special Points in Dvaita 43 Apauruseya Literature 44 The areas of Pratyaksa and Sruti 44 The Theory of Truth and Error 45 The Validity of Knowledge 48 Chapter IV 51 Dvaita Ethics 51 The Scope and the Problems of the Ethics 51 Hedonism and Rationalism 52 The concepts of ideals self interest and ideal duty 53 Grounds for the morally good and bad conducts 56 Freedom of will and moral reponsibility 58 Cultivation of moral Virtues 62 Chapter V 64 Dvaita Religion 64 The Scope of religion 64 Dvaita Concept of God 64 Vyuha and Avatara forms of God 65 All words convey the God 66 The Other Deities 67 The Bondage 68 Bhakti, Jnana and Prasada 70 Worship and other Religious Practices 71 Meditation and the Study of Scriptures 72 Eligibility for the religious and spiritual life 73 Good moral and social life 75 The concept of the preceptor 75 Importance of Mukhyaprana 76 Travel after Death 77 Liberation 77