Chaitanya's inconceivable difference and non-difference: the Lord and his energies are one and different in a way thought cannot resolve, and devotion does not need it resolved.
Acintya-bhedabheda is the Vedanta of the Gaudiya tradition of Chaitanya, holding that the relation between Krishna and his energies, including souls and the world, is inconceivably difference and non-difference together. Systematised by the Gosvamins of Vrindavan and narrated in the Chaitanya Charitamrita, it stands here as its own school, distinct both as a philosophy and as a devotional community.
Sources
Primary
- Krishnadasa Kaviraja, Chaitanya Charitamrita.
Secondary
- Edward C. Dimock Jr., The Place of the Hidden Moon.
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