...conceive how Brahman could be said to be unchanging in view of the changing nature of its ViSesanas (Cit and Acit) . The modes change from subtle to gross...dependence' and the 'contribution theory', which it implies.4 In his view, the world of matter and souls has come out and exists only as a result of an...

...process and the evolution of the world. Unless Rämänuja is willing to explain away the immutable perfection of the Absolute, and substitute for it...any satisfactory explanation of the relation of the souls of the Absolute to its body."2 Thus it may be said that the relation between the finite and the...