Thriyacharya

Adi Shankaracharya, Ramanujacharya and Madhvacharya are considered to be the pillars of Vedantic tradition of spiritual India.

Shankaracharya proposed or rather popularized Advaitha Vedanta. Advaitha system of Vedanta was first proposed by Gaudapada who was the Guru of Shankaracharya's Guru Govinda Bhagavatpada. Advaitha means non-dual.

Ramanujacharya had a totally different experience than Shankaracharya. During the time of Ramanuja, followers of Advaitha tradition in Tamil Nadu had distorted the teachings of Shankaracharya so much that Ramanuja started correcting them.

Madhvacharya took to explaining Prasthanatraya in the light of Dvaitha philosophy that is philosophically against Advaitha and Vishishtadvaitha.

THRIYACHARYA These Thriyacharya (Sankara, Ramanuja and Madhva) are the veritable gifts of time, in their chronological order of birth, and more for their painstaking interpretation of the Upanishads in showing us the path for the Realization, that is to say, the Jnana Kanda (mainly dealing with Brahmavidya) parts which constitute the Vedanta. All these descended to our Rishis and Munis of yore, in their Turiatheeth condition of transcendental mind, and were further transferred, by words of mouth or in the vibratory level, into their disciples/associates. The Vedanta thus signifies this Devavani from the above. What emanated, in elucidation of this Devavani, from these Thriyacharya- howsoever renowned they are-could at best be identified as their own Siddanta, i.e., as personal treatise only. It augers well, therefore, to call their (Sankara, Ramanuja and Madhva) treatises as pertaining to their respective Siddanta only, viz., Advaitha Siddanta (not Advaitha Vedanta), Vishishtadvaitha Siddanta(not Vishishtadvaitha Vedanta) and Dvaitha Siddanta(not Dvaitha Vedanta). When once this forms our informed premise in understanding these three Great Acharyas, we. may be in a better position to appreciate each of them as 'Tatvadarshi', in their own true lights