Yuktimallika by Vadiraja (critical study)
by Gururaj K. Nippani | 1986 | 132,303 words
This essay studies in English the Yuktimallika by Vadiraja. The Dvaita Vedanta system, developed by Madhva, has played a significant role in Indian philosophy, with scholars like Jayatirtha and Vyasatirtha contributing deeply logical and critical works. Vadiraja's "Yuktimallika" stands out as a unique synthesis of scholarly argumentation ...
16. Madhva鈥檚 approach is the right approach
That path alone is declared as right wherein Lord Hari is worshipped as Gunapurna. And that is not the right path wherein the Lord is not given the state of Supremacy and is not worshipped with supreme devotion. The statement of the clearly states that, that path does not help us to attain the upliftment where Lord Narayana is not Mahabharata, 326 A declared as Gunapurna. - 327 So the doctrines that do not declare Narayana as Gunapurna, the Puranas that do not proclaim the Gunapurnata of Lord Narayana and the Sruti passages that do not state Narayana as Gunapurna are all lead to treated as unworthy and a wrong path. 328 So the approach of Madhva, based on such statements of the Mahabharata and the like, and wherein the Lord is declared as Centirely distinct from this world, as Supreme Being to be worshipped 329 by all and as sole Controller and Regulator, is right. 鈫�
7 93 The Mahabharata verse in this way gives a clear exposition of the doctrines of Madhva school of philosophy in a nut-shell.