section_path: Bhashya (commentaries)/Classical commentaries/Rāmānuja (c. 1100 CE)
section_name: Rāmānuja (c. 1100 CE)
paragraph_text: Rāmānuja (c. 1100 CE)
  
  Ramanuja was a Hindu theologian, philosopher, and an exponent of the Sri Vaishnavism (Vishnu) tradition in 11th and early 12th century. Like his Vedanta peers, Ramanuja wrote a bhashya (commentary) on the Gita - Gita Bhashya. Ramanuja's commentary disagreed with Adi Shankara's interpretation of the Gita as a text on nondualism (Self and Brahman are identical), and instead interpreted it as a form of dualistic and qualified monism (Vishishtadvaita).