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jiva or the individual soul is also absolutely real and eternally distinct from God,
though God, being omnipresent, always dwells in it. But to Samkara the jiva is only
relatively real, its individuality lasting only so long as it is subject to upadhis or
limiting conditions. 4. To Ramanuja moksa is freedom from samsara, and it is bhakti that leads to it. Karma and jnana are only means to bhakti. But to Samkara moksa is freedom not only from samsara but also from exclusive individuality and its corollary, the phenomenal world. And according to him karma and bhakti are means to jnana, which is moksa. Midway between Samkara's Advaita and Ramanuja's Visistadvaita stands the system of Saiva Siddhanta, which beginning in very early times even be fore the Christian era developed about the eleventh century A.D. a distinctive philosophy in the Tamil country. Its literature consists chiefly of
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