It is said that Vishishtadvaita is also an advaita. What is the difference between Vishishtadvaita and Advaita?
Advaita and Vishishtadvaita have no connection at all. Advaita is implicit atheism. Advaita is called as Prachanna Bowdhdam. Advaita is based only on a personal interpretation of Abheda-sruthi. In Advaita, Brahman is the only knowledge-self reality and is without any attributes. The three types of differences namely difference in individuality, difference in types and differences in its integral parts are not in Brahman. Nothing other than this Brahman is reality. Though the Brahman is eternally free and only knowledge self, it gets obstructed/covered by ignorance and without realizing itself as Brahman (as told above) becomes to realize itself wrongly as Jeevaatman and gets bound in the material universe which is not a reality. This is what the Veda through verses like Tat Tvam Asi conveys. Except the Brahman, everything is illusion-falsehood. The God and the sentient-living and insentient-matter which are controlled by God are only illusion and has no reality. There is nothing called
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