Madhva Acarya

Madava appeared in this world in Pajaksetra, Karnataka, South India. As a boy he was called Vasudeva, and after receiving initiation he was known as Purna Prajna. At the age of ten or twelve he accepted sannyasa (the renounced order of life ) and became known as Ananda Tirtha. Madva propounded the doctrine of tattva-vada, or suddha-dvaita-vada (purified dualism), which strongly opposes all doctrines of monism. His doctrine discerns five differences: between(1) the soul and God, (2) soul and soul, (3) the soul and matter, (4) God and matter, and (5) matter and matter. Madva wrote forty-two books, including a commentary on the Bhagavad-Gita that he explained before Vyasadeva at Badarikasrama. Madhva left the world in A.D. 1319 in Udupi at the Antanta-sayana temple.