Nimbarka

Nimbarka
flourished 13th century, South India

Indian yogi and founder of the devotional sect called Nimbarkas or Nimandi.

Little is known of his life except that he was a Brahman and a notable astronomer. Like Ramanuja, he believed that the creator god and the souls he created were distinct but shared in the same substance, and he stressed devotion to Krishna as the only means of liberation from the cycle of rebirth. The Nimanda sect flourished in the 13th–14th century in eastern India.

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▪ Indian philosopher
also called  Nimbāditya , or  Niyamānanda  
flourished 13th century, ?, South India

      Telugu-speaking Brahman, yogi, minor philosopher, and prominent astronomer who founded the devotional sect called Nimbārkas, Nimandi, or Nimāvats, who worshiped the deity Krishna (Kṛṣṇa) and his consort, Rādhā.

      Nimbārka has been identified with Bhāskara, a 9th- or 10th-century philosopher and celebrated commentator on the Brahma-sūtra (Ve- dānta-sūtra). Most historians of Hindu mysticism, however, hold that Nimbārka probably lived in the 12th or 13th century because of the similarities between his philosophical and devotional attitudes and those of Rāmānuja (traditionally dated 1017–1137). Both adhered to dvaitādvaita (Sanskrit: “dualistic non-dualism”), the belief that the creator-god and the souls he created were distinct but shared in the same substance, and both stressed devotion to Krishna as a means of liberation from the cycle of rebirth.

      The Nimanda sect flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries in eastern India. Its philosophy held that men were trapped in physical bodies constricted by prakṛti (matter) and that only by surrender to Rādhā-Krishna (not through their own efforts) could they attain the grace necessary for liberation from rebirth; then, at death, the physical body would drop away. Thus Nimbārka stressed bhakti yoga, the yoga of devotion and faith. Many books were written about this once-popular cult, but most sources were destroyed by Muslims during the reign of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1659–1707), and thus little information has survived about Nimbārka and his followers.

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