Bheda-Abheda

Namaskar, I was reading the Brahma Sutra Bhasya commentary by Sri BNK Sharma and came across this philosophy of bheda-abheda (by Bhaskara?). I have heard people spend a lot of time on advaita vs dvaita classically, but in today's age of neo-Vedanta, most common people who vaguely proclaim "Everything is One" have bheda-abheda as their conception. In short, the claim is that the jiva, is a literal amsa of Brahman, and within the state of samsara, the jiva is covered by ignorance, being a tiny finite amsa of the infinite Brahman - analogous to the sparks emanating from a fire. But after moksha, the tiny amsa "merges back" into the infinite Brahman. So within samsara there is bheda, and after moksha, there is abheda between jiva and Brahman. I was interested in knowing what arguments dvaita philosophy gives to refute bheda-abheda. This will be useful for many people since neo-Mayavadins have no clue about what Shankara actually said, and take shelter of this bheda-abheda philosophy to justify their theory of oneness. But I have not seen a rebuttal of this anywhere. Sincerely, Panduranga __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com