There is a moment in Vallabhacharya's Anubhashya, his commentary on the Brahmasutras, where he makes a claim so structurally different from most Indian philosophical schools that it takes a second reading to absorb. Liberation, he writes, is not attained. It is given. Not as a concession, not as a culmination of long practice, but as an act of what he calls pushti: the nourishing grace of Brahman that flows without condition and without cause.
