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    A qualified student of Advaita Vedanta must fulfill four ... — Carmelics
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    A qualified student of Advaita Vedanta must fulfill four prerequisite conditions before pursuing liberation.

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    • 1.Discrimination between what is transient and what is eternal is required.
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    • 2.Dispassion towards objects of enjoyment is required.
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    • 3.Perfecting practices such as control of the mind and senses is required.
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    • 1.The Mimamsa school argues that Vedic ritual action (karma-kanda) itself constitutes the authoritative path, not preparatory discriminative knowledge.
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    • 2.Shankara's four prerequisites presuppose the primacy of jnana-kanda over karma-kanda, a hierarchical move that Kumarila Bhatta explicitly contested on exegetical grounds.
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    • 3.If the Veda speaks with unified authority across its portions, no single preparatory schema derived from one textual strand can claim universal prerequisite status.
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    • 1.Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita holds that divine grace (prasada) alone enables liberation, rendering prior qualification by human effort insufficient.
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    • 2.If liberation depends on Ishvara's sovereign grace, then prerequisite conditions become spiritually secondary rather than necessary preconditions.
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    On the other hand, Śaṅkara accepts the secondary importance of yogic practices that involve a variety of meditation methods, devotional practices, ascetic austerities, moral psychology, and the development of ethical virtues and action ethics (see Sundaresan 2003 on Yoga in Śaṅkara’s method). They may function as indirect means to liberation. Śaṅkara’s ambivalence towards action is not a contradiction. He recognizes a voluntary element in any knowledge to some degree. One must create the proper
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