Brahman

==== Vishishtadvaita ====
In [[Vishishtadvaita]], Ramanuja asserts that Brahman is God, and that this God is Narayana. In his commentary on the [[Brahma Sutras]] 1.1.1, Ramanuja defines Brahman as the "'highest person,' one who by his own nature is free from all imperfections and in possession of host of innumerable auspicious qualities of unsurpassable excellence." Using this definition, Ramanuja argues that Brahman must be God because Brahman's qualities are unsurpassably superior to all, and thus "only the Lord of all can thus be denoted, and 'Brahman' primarily denotes him alone". Ramanuja asserts that the relationship between God and the individual selves must be one of devotion, and moksha or liberation is said by him to be caused by the selves' worship of Brahman: "The cessation of bondage...is to be obtained only through the grace of the highest Person who is pleased by worshipper's meditation, which is devotion".<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/hindu-god-christian-god-9780195138542?cc=us&lang=en& |title=Hindu God, Christian God: How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries between Religions |date=2001-09-27 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-513854-2 |location=Oxford, New York |pages=70}}</ref>