RELIGIOUS-PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS OF GERHARD OBERHAMMER (Based on Ramanuja’s ‘Sharanagatigadya’). Part III

The paper deals with some religious and philosophical ideas of the Austrian philosopher Gerhard Oberhammer, who analyses the religious text of vishishta-advaita tradition from the point of Levinas’ philosophy. In the final fragment of his article Oberhammer analyses the formula of Ramanuja parabhaktiparajVAnaparamabhakti, which is understood in the works of the later thinkers of vishishta-advaita as prapatti. Meanwhile this formula for Ramanuja himself means only the meditative God-vision in the form of the steady remembering of God and vision of Him in the images of the Vishnu religion.

RAmAnuja, VedAnta, Oberhammer, Other, religious-philosophical hermeneutics, bhakti, vidyA