NIMBARKA ACARYA

Sri Nimbarka appeared at Mungera-patana in the extreme south. Kesava Kasmiri
wrote Kaustubha-prabha, a commentary on the Vedanta commentary of the
Nimbarka-sampradaya, which is known as the Parijata-bhasya. The philosophers
known as kevaladvaita-vadis generally occupy themselves with hearing the
Sariraka-bhasya, a commentary by Sankaracarya advocating that one impersonally
consider oneself the Supreme Lord. Such Mayavada philosophical commentaries upon
Vedanta are simply imaginary, but there are other commentaries on Vedanta
philosophy. The commentary by Srila Ramanujacarya, known as Sri-bhasya,
establishes the visistadvaita-vada philosophy. Similarly, in the Brahma-
sampradaya, Madhvacarya's Purnaprajna-bhasya establishes suddha-dvaita-vada. In
the Kumara-sampradaya, or Nimbarka-sampradaya, Sri Nimbarka establishes the
philosophy of dvaitadvaita-vada in the Parijata-saurabha-bhasya. And in the
Visnusvami-sampradaya, or Rudra-sampradaya, which comes from Lord Siva,
Visnusvami has written a commentary called Sarvajna-bhasya, which establishes
suddhadvaita-vada.


