Nimbaraka

Nimbaraka

  • He was the disciple of Ramanujacharya
  • He was the first to introduce Radhamadhav cult which was centered n the worship of Radha and Madhav
  • He founded the philosophy called Dwita Advaita. It was centered on the balance between Advaita and Visishtadvaita.

  • He wrote Dashasloki and Vedanta
  • He was also a prominent astronomer.
  • Its philosophy held that men were trapped in physical bodies constricted by prakrti (matter) and that only by surrender to Radha-Krishna (not through their own efforts) could they attain the grace necessary for liberation from rebirth; then, at death, the physical body would drop away.