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Acintya-bhedābheda

Inconceivable difference-in-identity: the Vedānta of the Caitanya tradition of devotion to Kṛṣṇa.

Also: Achintya Bheda Abheda

Vedānta and the Hindu traditions

Acintya-bhedābheda is the theology of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition founded by Caitanya in the sixteenth century. It holds that the Lord, Kṛṣṇa, is both one with and different from his energies, the selves and the world, in a way that reason cannot comprehend. Its goal is ecstatic love of Kṛṣṇa.