Dvaitadvaita Vedanta

One of the branches of Vedanta, the
philosophical school claiming to reveal
the ultimate (anta) teaching of the
ancient sacred texts known as the Vedas.
Dvaitadvaita Vedanta’s founder and
most important figure was the fourteenth-century philosopher, Nimbarka.
Nimbarka stressed the worship of the
god Krishna and his companion Radha
as a divine couple, but on a philosophical level he was attempting to find some
middle ground between the monism of
the Advaita Vedanta school and the
dualism of the Dvaita Vedanta school.
The former claimed that a single
Ultimate Reality—called Brahman—lay
behind all things, and that all things
were merely differing forms of this single reality. The latter emphasized the
utter distinction between God as
Ultimate Reality on the one hand, and
the world and human souls on the other.
Nimbarka stressed that the world and
souls were dependent on God, in whom
they exist and with whom they had a
subtle connection. Nimbarka thus supported the philosophical doctrine called
parinamavada, which stressed the real
transformation of the divine and the
capacity of human beings to transform
themselves back to their divine status.