ABSTRACT
Rärnänuja's metaphysic is a form of realism about a world whose most significant inhabitants are a plurality of individual substances. This is consonant with the ritualistic and devotional religion for which he is providing a philosophical articulation. Response to the self-donation of a deity conceived in quasi-personalist terms requires a notion of the real difference between two individualised terms. Fundamental to his conceptual framework are the three essentially distinct and real categories of the non-conscious entities (acit), which furnish the objects of experience, the conscious individual selves (cit) which are the experiencers and Brahman, the sovereign, which is identified as the personal god Visnu Näräyana.!
