Identity and Difference in the Onthology of Rāmānuja
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https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v73.i276.y2017.033Keywords:
Hinduism, Christianity, difference creator-creature, non-duality, Atman, Braman, mystical identificationAbstract
By accepting the fact of creation and Brahman as the creator, Rāmānuja has to face the seemingly insoluble problem that the human being has raised through his turbulent history. The problem of compatibility of an infinite, perfect, eternal, immutable, creative creator, and a finite, imperfect, temporal and mutable creature. That is why in an imperfect world and by nature mutable and perishable, man has always sought Something or Someone perfect, immutable and permanent that gives meaning to life. What is the relationship between the Creator and the creature? And the answer, for Rāmānuja, is in the discovery that, at the heart of all imperfection, of every mutation, of all destruction, there is something perfect, immutable, imperishable. Something, in the end, that gives meaning to our life as creatures, and this something is the very Creator, who is not only not far from the creature, but is the immovable core of his being, as the true imperishable Soul of his limited ontological reality. In India, this permanent host of every creature has always been known as the Ātman, Brahman, the Spirit who dwells in all beings from the first moment of his existence, and who, being different from everything, ontologically distinct from man, is Present in everything, guiding everything from within, to the final reunion with Him.
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