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granting non-renunciate devotees a corresponding access to
moksa. He furthermore ignores the idea of bhakti as the
The problem now remains: If the BR and
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the GAD have different and indeed contradictory teachings on
the place and function of devotion in Advaita, which is
Madhusudana's true outlook? We hypothesized at the start of
this chapter that one motivation for his writing on bhakti
may have been to think through his own spiritual experience
and somehow bring together the two strands of Upanisadic
non-dualism and K峁涐梗峁嘺 devotionalism on which it was based.
If this was the case, as seems impossible to doubt,
something of what he wrote must represent his own personal
understanding of the problem. But what? If we take
definite agreement between the BR and the GAD, his two major
works on bhakti, as our criterion, three things can be said.
First, it is at least clear that Madhusudana, who regarded
himself as a j墨vanmukta, believed that it was perfectly
possible to experience devotion in that state. Second, it
is equally certain that he thought bhakti a great help at
all levels of spiritual practice. Third, both texts make it
obvious that he saw a very close relation between the
Brahman of Advaita and the bhagavat of the BP, and that he
identified the latter with K峁涐梗峁嘺. Beyond these points,
however, we cannot speak with certainty.