https://tube.leshley.ca/videos/watch/87be5ad2-3d45-4a0b-b10c-f9df64e43a9e Thirteenth-century India. Advaita Vedānta is the establishment philosophy — Śaṅkara's commentaries the gold standard of scriptural interpretation. Then a monk from a small village on the Karnataka coast stands up and calls the whole edifice a Buddhist fifth column. His charge: the Advaitins were pracchanna bauddhas — hidden Buddhists. Vedic robes on the outside, the denial of a real, enduring world underneath. This lecture takes Madhva apart from the ground up: who he was, the historical moment that demanded a theistic Vedānta, and the system he built to replace Advaita — Tattvavāda, the doctrine of truth. We cover: • The three prasthānas — Upaniṣads, Brahma Sūtra, Bhagavad Gītā — and why every ācārya had to comment on all three • The pañcabheda: five real, eternal differences that not even liberation can dissolve • Why Madhva says bondage is relational, not ontological — not a rope mistaken for a snake, but a relationship badly managed • Liberation as closeness, not merger: can love exist without two? • The attack on māyā — how an ontology can destroy a soteriology • The crypto-Buddhism charge, examined fairly: overstated, or devastating? • Madhva vs. Rāmānuja — kingdom or organism? • The Udupi maṭhas and the paryāya rotation, still running after seven hundred years Three ācāryas. Three readings of the same scriptures. Śaṅkara: you are Brahman. Rāmānuja: you are the body of Brahman. Madhva: you are forever other than Brahman. No resolution in sight. Where do you land on it? — 📚 More lectures and public domain texts: https://library.leshley.ca 🔗 All links: https://gravatar.com/lyonleshley 🎧 Podcast version: https://podcast.leshley.ca 📺 PeerTube: https://tube.leshley.ca #Madhva #Dvaita #Vedanta #IndianPhilosophy #Advaita #Bhakti #Philosophy #Udupi #Shankara #Ramanuja Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:51:24 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.leshley.ca https://tube.leshley.ca/lazy-static/avatars/0bd1d7c1-816f-4345-9358-f080e8986bec.png https://tube.leshley.ca/videos/watch/87be5ad2-3d45-4a0b-b10c-f9df64e43a9e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.leshley.ca/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.