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Teleology

प्रयोजन-विचार

Final ends: prema as the fifth and highest puruṣārtha.

3 November 2024
Teleology

Prema as the Fifth Puruṣārtha

Teleological structure beyond mokṣa

The Gauḍīya teleology displaces mokṣa as the highest end and replaces it with prema. This essay reconstructs the argument and considers what it means for a soteriology to have a positive rather than negative final term.

Dr. B. Rūpānuga · Dr. J. Sanātana