achintya-bhed-abheda | अचिन्त्य-भेद-अभेद

achintya-bhed-abheda | अचिन्त्य-भेद-अभेद
Gauranga Mahaprabhu | गौरांग महाप्रभु

achintya-bhed-abheda (Devanagari: अचिन्त्य-भेद-अभेद; ISO 15919: acintya-bhēda-abhēda) is the philosophy that describes the inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference between God, jiva and Maya.

📜 Philosophical Context

This theology holds that the relationship between the Lord and His energies (including the world and the individual soul) is simultaneously:

  • Bheda (Difference)
  • Abheda (Non-Difference or Oneness)
  • Achintya (Inconceivable, or beyond human reason)

This philosophy was propagated by Gauranga Mahaprabhu (Chaitanya Mahaprabhu).

Also written as achintyabhedabhed


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