"It may perhaps help us to realize the human side of our Masters if we remember that many of Them in comparatively recent times have been known as historical characters... In these researches into the remote past we have frequently found the disciple Jesus, who in Palestine had the privilege of yielding up His body to the Christ. As a result of that act He received the incarnation of Apollonius of Tyana, and in the eleventh century He appeared in India as the teacher Ramanuja, who revived the devotional element in Hinduism, and raised it to so high a level."
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Ramanuja
Ramanuja (traditionally, 1017ā1137 CE) was a Hindu theologian, philosopher, and scriptural exegete. He is considered as the most important Hindu teacher, who followed and , and the leading expounder of .
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