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Which one of the Vedāntic schools advocates that view that “The Individual is real and the Self is related to Brahman as body is related to the soul” ?

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Vishishtādvaita Vedānta

The Vedāntic schools differ on how the individual self (jīva) stands to Brahman. Advaita treats the individual as ultimately identical with Brahman, while the theistic schools hold that the individual self is real.

Rāmānuja's Vishishtādvaita explains this relation through śarīra-śarīrī-bhāva, the relation of body and soul. Individual selves and the material world are real and form the body of Brahman, and Brahman is their inner controller (antaryāmin), just as the soul supports, controls and uses the body for its own purpose. This exact analogy is the hallmark of qualified non-dualism.

Advaita Vedānta denies the ultimate reality of the individual. Dvaita Vedānta stresses absolute difference and dependence but does not describe the relation as that of body and soul. Dvaitādvaita of Nimbārka speaks of simultaneous difference and non-difference, like that of a part and the whole.

Vishishtādvaita Vedānta option is correct.

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