Sri Bhashya

In his commentary, Ramanuja presents the fundamental philosophical principles of Vishishtadvaita based on his interpretation of the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita and other Smriti texts, the previous acharyas, and the Vedanta-sutra itself.{{Cite book |last=Isayeva |first=Natalia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8joZUvpnGlwC&dq=Sribhasya&pg=PA243 |title=Shankara and Indian Philosophy |date=1993-01-01 |publisher=State University of New York Press |isbn=978-1-4384-0762-3 |pages=243 |language=en}} This is done by way of refuting Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and in particular his theory of maya. In this work, he describes the three categories of reality (tattvas): God, soul, and matter, which have been used by the later Vaishnava theologians such as Madhva. He explains the relationship between the body and the soul.{{Cite book |last=Vemsani |first=Lavanya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4fw2DAAAQBAJ&dq=Sribhasya&pg=PA293 |title=Krishna in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Hindu Lord of Many Names: An Encyclopedia of the Hindu Lord of Many Names |date=2016-06-13 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-211-3 |pages=293 |language=en}} The principles of bhakti as a means to liberation (moksha) were also developed. Ramanuja wrote the Vedanta-Dipa and Vedanta-Sara{{Cite book |last=Seshachalam |first=C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_egPAAAAMAAJ&q=Sribhasya |title=Visishtadvaita Philosophy and Religion: A Symposium by Twenty-four Erudite Scholars |date=1974 |publisher=Ramanuja Research Society |pages=82 |language=en}} to aid in the overall understanding of the Sri Bhashya.{{Cite book |last=Clayton |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AgOcAO2e80wC&dq=Sribhasya&pg=PA111 |title=Religions, Reasons and Gods: Essays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion |date=2006-11-25 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-45926-6 |pages=iii |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Chari |first=S. M. Srinivasa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1zNxV2zBPsC&dq=Sri+Bhasya&pg=PA8 |title=Advaita and Viśiṣṭādvaita: A Study Based on Vedānta Deśikā's Śatadūṣaṇī |date=1999 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |isbn=978-81-208-1535-3 |pages=8 |language=en}}

In Sri Bhashya 1.1.1, Ramanuja states and then refutes the Advaitic position that pure, undifferentiated consciousness, or Brahman, is the sole reality, equated with Being itself. In this view, the apparent plurality of the world is attributed to avidya (ignorance), a beginningless and inexplicable force that conceals Brahman's true nature and creates the illusion of distinction. Everything apart from Brahman, including acts of knowledge and objects, is deemed false and conceptual constructs. Ramanuja criticizes this view for invalidating ordinary experience.{{Cite book |last=Bartley |first=C. J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SpTAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 |title=The Theology of Ramanuja: Realism and Religion |date=2013-10-11 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-136-85306-7 |pages=11–12 |language=en}}

• Gita Bhashya
• Narayana sukta
• Shatadushani
• Vedarthasamgraha

• Hajime Nakamura and Trevor Leggett, A History of Early Vedānta Philosophy, Vol 2, New Delhi, Motilal Banarsidass (1983)
• Advaita Ashrama (2003). Brahma-Sutras According to Sri Ramanuja. {{ISBN|81-7505-006-3}}

• [http://ramanuja.org/sri/Web/Sribhashya Overview of Sribhashya by S.S. Raghavachar]
• [http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/ Translation of Sribhashya by George Thibaut]
• Sruta Pradipika, Sanskrit commentary on Sribhashya by Sudarsana Suri with detailed English introduction

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