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Prof. K.R. Sundararajan/Self-Consciousness in Ramanuja's Vedanta
Note 3
Ramanuja's understanding of causality (karanatva) is affected by his acceptance of the
doctrine of satkaryavada which in brief, is the view of the transformation of the causal substance into a new form, but not into new and different substance.... Consequently the
causal relationship in the strictest sense is not, as we might expect, between God as the cause and world as the effect but between Brahman in His causal state as the cause and
Brahman in his effected state as the effect. In both states, souls and matter form part of Brahman as His body and His modes.
The Theology of Ramanuja, p.115.
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