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Madhvacharya , sometimes anglicised as Madhva Acharya, and also known as Pūrna Prajña and Ānanda Tīrtha, was the third person in the order of incarnation of Shri Vayudeva , who is the second son of Lord Narayana and Lakshmi Devi, was a Sanatani philosopher and the chief proponent of the Dvaita school of Vedanta,. Madhva called his philosophy Tatvavāda meaning "arguments from a realist viewpoint".Madhvacharya was born on the west coast of Karnataka state in 13th-century India. As a teenager, he became a Sanyasi joining Brahma-sampradaya guru Achyutapreksha, of the Ekadandi order. Madhva studied the classics of Hindu philosophy, particularly the Principal Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras . He commented on these, and is credited with thirty seven works in Sanskrit. His writing style was of extreme brevity and condensed expression. His greatest work is considered to be the Anuvyakhyana, a philosophical supplement to his bhasya on the Brahma Sutras composed with a poetic structure. In some of his works, he proclaimed himself to be an avatar of Vayu, the son of god Vishnu.He was a critic of Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta teachings. He toured India several times, visiting places such as Bengal, Varanasi, Dwarka, Goa and Kanyakumari, engaging in philosophical debates and visiting Hindu centres of learning. Madhva established the Krishna Mutt at Udupi with a murti secured from Dwarka Gujarat in CE 1285.Madhvācārya's teachings are built on the premise that there is a fundamental difference between Atman and the Brahman , these are two different unchanging realities, with individual soul dependent on Brahman, never identical. His school's theistic dualism teachings disagreed with the monist teachings of the other two most influential schools of Vedanta based on Advaita's nondualism and Vishishtadvaita's qualified nondualism. Liberation, asserted Madhva, is achievable only through the grace of God. The Dvaita school founded by Madhva influenced Vaishnavism, the Bhakti movement in medieval India, and has been one of the three influential Vedānta philosophies, along with Advaita Vedanta and Vishishtadvaita Vedanta. Madhva's historical influence in Hinduism, state Kulandran and Kraemer, has been salutary, but not extensive. Wikipedia  

✵ 1199 – 1278
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Famous Madhvacharya Quotes

“God Vishnu has complete power over souls and matter and that Vishnu saves souls entirely by his grace which is granted to those who live pure and moral lives. Evil souls are predestined to eternal damnation and should of mediocre quality will transmigrate eternally.”

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Quoted from [Martha Bush Ashton, Martha Bush Ashton-Sikora, Bruce Christie, Yakṣagāna, a Dance Drama of India, 23, http://books.google.com/books?id=ug3DNI-1xwUC&pg=PA23, 1977, Abhinav Publications, 23–].

“Sriman Narayana is the Lord of the universe, and the creation, destruction, sustainanance, control, etc., are according to his wish. He is the one called Brahma in the vedas and HE is full of knowledge, bliss, and power”

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strength
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“Means of knowledge are sensory perception, inference and holy scriptures.”

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Beginner’s Guide to Sri MadhvAchArya’s Life and Philosophy

“All living beings are different from Him and from each other and are subordinate to Him, all their actions are controlled by Him.”

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“Vishnu is to be perceived in His nature through the holy scriptures and only through them.”

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Beginner’s Guide to Sri MadhvAchArya’s Life and Philosophy

“All inanimate objects are different from Him and from each other and from all living objects.”

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“There is a hierarchy amongst living beings, that is eternal [without beginning or end].”

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Beginner’s Guide to Sri MadhvAchArya’s Life and Philosophy

“All living beings are dependent upon Vishnu for their existence.”

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Beginner’s Guide to Sri MadhvAchArya’s Life and Philosophy

Dependency

“Salvation can be attained only through pure and unsullied love of God (combined with knowledge of His greatness).”

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Beginner’s Guide to Sri MadhvAchArya’s Life and Philosophy

Love , God , Knowledge

“The final emancipation called mokhsha for the beings who are bound to the problems of samsara can be attained by intense devotion to the Lord with the true knowledge of HIM.”

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Knowledge , Problem

“Salvation lies in the soul experiencing its intrinsic joy.”

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Soul , Joy

“The world is real.”

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World

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