The eternal Self is the ultimate phase, like gold, while the name and form of an individual is like that of gold jewellery. Some may not like the making of the jewel but the gold that is in it is not inferior. The face value of a currency note is the same even if it is soiled. Every individual is the same like gold and the intrinsic value of a currency note. This is what Sri Sri Shankara tries to convey through the prism of Advaita philosophy.
The Dvaita philosophy of Sriman Madhava endorses the need for every individual to live life in a way that enables one to take out or forge an attractive jewel out the gold or clean the currency note so that it become new and crisp. Both these great exponents of philosophy of Advaita and Dvaita, have really said the same thing but in different ways. Sri Sri Shankara asks us to see others in the same perspective as we see ourselves. Sriman Madhva explains to us that even though others see us in the same perspective as they see themselves, it is righteousness to live a quality life.
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