Theism in Medieval India; Lectures Delivered in Essex Hall, London, October-December, 1919
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Vasudeva, the Most High, with hands and feet and eyes everywhere, i.e. omni- present and omniscient, the support of all, manifests himself in three additional modes,^ known as Samkarshana, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha, in order of origination from the Supreme. The confused account in the Epic connects these three modes with the cosmic process by associating Samkarshana with the Individual Soul, Pradyumna with the Manas, and Aniruddha with the Aham-kara or consciousness.' But Aniruddha is also l9var...a, the Creator from whom all things originate ; and in 341, 27 f., he is identified with "the Great "and is said to create the Grandfather Brahman, cp. 340, 71, 72. The elements of the Sankhyan scheme are thus most incongruously mingled with a theism which ascribed the actual production of the world to a divine First Cause. But the cult of Vishnu-Vasudeva established itself in the South, and a series of Tamil saints known as Alvars from the fifth or sixth century to the twelfth, provided it with hymns of praise and devotion which gained great influence and are sometimes designated "a Vaisnava Veda." * Severely criticised by ^ankara (cp.
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