Twilight of the Sultanate c18.s4.4

c18.s4.4

Vallabha insisted on the "complete identity of both soul and world with the Supreme Spirit". His monism was known as *Suddha-* *adwaita* or "Pure Non-Duality". According to him Bhakti was both the means and the end; it is given by God; it comes by His grace. He conceived of Brahma as the material cause of the world, and believed that through His grace salvation could be achieved. His was the *Pushtī-Mārg*, or path of salvation through His Grace (*anugraha*). *Pushtī* in its highest form enabled one to attain God; in the ordinary way it enabled one to attain the objects of one's desires. Vallabha regarded the teacher on earth as divine, receiving divine honours.