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2 unusual facts about Jiva Goswami


Jiva Goswami

#Sat-Sandarbhas (Six Sandarbhas): According to Jiva Goswami himself, Gopala Bhatta Goswami had already done the preliminary work on these books but could not complete it.

In essence, the philosophy of Achintya bheda abheda, or "inconceivable oneness and difference", avoids the extremes of Shankara's monistic Advaita vedanta and Madhva's pure dualism (Dvaita) by interpreting the material and spiritual potencies of the Supreme Person (Bhagavan) as being simultaneously one and different with Him.


1513 in India

Jiva Goswami, writer of philosophical works on the theology and practice of Bhakti yoga, Vaishnava Vedanta and associated disciplines is born in Ramakeli in the district of Maldah, West Bengal (dies 1596 or 1598)


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