Prime Minister pays his obeisance to Sri Madhwacharya on Madhwa Navmi.

Why in news?

• The PM paid his obeisances to Sri Madhwacharya on the occasion of Madhwa Navami.

About Sri Madhawacharya

• He is regarded as an incarnation of wind-god Vayu and was born in year 1238 AD in Kanara district of Karnataka.
• He was a great exponent of the Dvaita School of philosophy.
• According to his philosophy, the Supreme Being is Vishnu.
• He, argued that a body of canonical texts called ‘Vedanta’ or ‘end of veda’ taught the fundamental difference between the individual self or atman and the ultimate reality, Brahman.
• He wrote 37 works in Sanskrit, mostly commentaries on Hindu sacred writings and treatises on his own theological system and philosophy.
• He insisted that knowledge is relative, not absolute.