His school's theistic dualism teachings disagreed with the monist teachings of the other two most influential schools of Vedanta based on Advaita's nondualism and Vishishtadvaita's qualified nondualism. Madhvacharya's teachings are built on the premise that there is a fundamental difference between Atman (individual soul, self) and the Brahman (ultimate reality, God Vishnu), these are two different unchanging realities, with individual soul dependent on Brahman, never identical. Madhva established the Krishna Mutt at Udupi with a murti secured from Dwarka Gujarat in CE 1285. He toured India several times, visiting places such as Bengal, Varanasi, Dwarka, Goa and Kanyakumari, engaging in philosophical debates and visiting Hindu centres of learning. However, Dwaita was restricted to few states of India.

Madhvacharya was a critic of Adi Shankara's Advaita Vedanta and Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita Vedanta teachings. In some of his works, he proclaimed himself to be an avatar of Vayu, the son of god Vishnu.

His greatest work is considered to be the Anuvyakhyana, a philosophical supplement to his bhasya on the Brahma Sutras composed with a poetic structure. His writing style was of extreme brevity and condensed expression. He commented on these, and is credited with thirty seven works in Sanskrit. Madhva studied the classics of Hindu philosophy, particularly the Principal Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahma Sutras ( Prasthanatrayi). As a teenager, he became a Sanyasi (monk) joining Brahma-sampradaya guru Achyutapreksha, of the Ekadandi order. Madhvacharya was born on the west coast of Karnataka state in 13th-century India. Madhva called his philosophy Tattvavāda meaning 'arguments from a realist viewpoint'. Madhvacharya ( Madhvācārya Sanskrit pronunciation: CE 1238–1317 ), sometimes anglicised as Madhva Acharya, and also known as Pūrna Prajña and Ānanda Tīrtha, was a Hindu philosopher and the chief proponent of the Dvaita (dualism) school of Vedanta.

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