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""OBJECTIONS WITHIN THE VEDANTA 119matter, and thereby makes it live ; and, similarly,God enters into matter and soul and gives them theirpowers and their peculiar characters. The universewithout God is exactly analogous to matter withoutsoul. 1Brahman (whichis identified with Hari in thissystem) is regarded as having svagatabheda, i.e.,differences within itself in its threefold aspects referred to above. It isimagined to be like a tree,which, though one, has differences within itself inthe shape of its branches, etc.Madhva (also known as Anandatirtha and Purnaprajfia2 ),in the thirteenth century, proposed another system in the Vedanta, which he called theDvaita. It is so called because he believed in theduality ofultimate principles,which he named theindependent and the dependent. Difference was areal entity in itself. The relation of the individualto God, the Supreme Lord, was that of a slave andmaster :the latter was the former s object of obedience. Maya is only the will of the Lord (Visnu).The grace of Visnu is won only through the knowledge of his excellence, not through the knowledge ofnon-duality. The whole world was manifest fromthe body of3Visnu.1 Cf. Ramanuja s Sribhasya, trans. Rarigacarya and"3Varadaraja, Madras, 1899. Analytical Outline," p. i.2See Madhava, Sarvadarsanasamgraha, ch. v.Visnor dehaj jagat sarvam avirasit Wilson,Religious Sects, i., p. 144, note.