Bhakti

The Aim of this work is twofold - firstly, to deal with such conceptions of the Deity as led to Ramanuja's views (the Upanisads, the Bhagavadgita, Vaisnava portions of the Mahabharata, the Visnu Purana, the Bhagavata Purana, and the Hymns of the Alvars, all of which directly influenced Ramanuja's view of the Deity), and secondly, to deal with Ramanuja's own conception of the Deity