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Vishnutatvavinirnaya
is the biggest of the ten monographs authored by
Shri Madhvacharya.
Tradition has considered it a monograph though it
discusses a variety of topics leading to the establishment of the supremacy
of Vishnu.
It discusses the apouruseyatva (authorlessness)
of Vedas elaborately.
The main points are:
1. Those who admit transcendental verities can do so in the
light of some proper proof.
The validity of the authored treatises are disputed. Authorless
treatises only can be free from disputes.
2. There can be no sentence without an
author. Vedas are sentences. How can they be authorless?
Sentences are of two kinds. Vedic and non-Vedic. Sentenceness or
the fact of being.
Sentence is a common factor.
A common factor cannot prove another common factor
in things that are internally distinct. The fact of being human
beings cannot prove that men can conceive. Men and women, though
human beings they are, having internal distinctions. Vedic
sentences need not have any author inspite of being sentences.
3.The unbroken tradition of
assertion by teachers
and pupils that they are teaching and learning Vedas that existed
before them proves the apouruseyatva of Vedas.
4. Internal evidences.
5. Letters are eternal.
The VTN examines threadbare the Advaita view
that the identity of jiva and Brahman is the main import of Vedas
and establishes the inevitability of difference Between jiva and
Brahman.
The work answers all the questions against the
plausibility of difference and says how life will be absurd in the
absence of difference. It shows the untenability
of the Advaita interpretations of many Vedic sentences and
chapters. It shows how any idea of the unreality of the world would
entail two real worlds.
At the end it produces a host of known and rare scriptural texts
that unmistakably speak of the supremacy of Vishnu.
Sri Narayanapanditacarya has authored a commentary
on this work. It is Tatvamanjari
,Sri Jayatirtha's tika is elaborate and lucid. The glosses over
this tika of Sri Raghavendratirtha,
Sri Srinivasatirtha, Sri Raghutammatirtha, Sri Vyasatatvajna and so on
are very useful to students.
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