TY - BOOK AU - Gupta. Sanjukta TI - Advaita vedanta and vaisnavism: the philosophy of Madhusudana Sarasvati SN - 9780415395359 U1 - 181.482 PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - General KW - Advaita - Early works to 1800 N2 - In Indian philosophy and theology, the ideology of Vedanta occupies an important position. Hindu religious sects accept the Vedantic soteriology, which believes that there is only one conscious reality, Brahman from which the entire creation, both conscious and non-conscious, emanated. Madhusudana Sarasvati, who lived in sixteenth century Bengal and wrote in Sanskrit, was the last great thinker among the Indian philosophers of Vedanta. During his time, Hindu sectarians, rejected monastic Vedanta. Although a strict monist, Madhusudana tried to make a synthesis between his monastic philosophy and his theology of emotional love for God. ER -