This paper demonstrates the standpoint of Radhakrishnan in regard to the treatment of his monistic view with special reference to the Philosophy of Samkara and Nimbark. Radhakrishnan was very much influenced by the Sankara's Philosophy.
The basis of Sankara's philosophy is that there is only one indivisible thing in existence and that is Brahman. Brahman is indescribable and cannot be fully understood by teachings alone.
Like Advaita Vedanta he believes that the reality is one and it must be spiritual in nature. There is no internal differentiation in the reality. The differentiation is appeared from the point of view of creation only. The reality is one, infinite, changeless, eternal and perfect but, all these descriptions of the absolute are imperfect attempts to understand its nature.
Radhakrishnan was very much agree with the views of advaita to describe the nature of reality. Though he examined Sankara's standpoint and distinguished it from that of his own. Unlike Sankara Radhakrishnan is not prepared to reduce God to unreality by making it a product of Maya. God is real in so far as creation is real. Like Nimbark he admits the reality of Absolute, God and creation at the same time and at the same level.
Sankara's theory of non-duality, Nimbark's theory of defference-non difference, Radhakrishnan's synthesis of these two theories
