Theological
Akilam especially the second part clearly provides rich ideas in quantity and quality about the uniqueness and supremacy of Vaikundar and his power-relation to other lesser gods. But many followers relates Vaikundar to Vishnu and as merely the incarnation of him. Some others includes him within the Ten Avatars replacing others while some denominations relates him to Kalki and on the other hand him-self as Kalki. Some of them also rejects the Trinity conception and use to consider the Narayana to be the supreme as in Vaishnavism. Some denominations especially the Ayya Vaikunda Siddhasharama view him as a yogi on the way of describing Advaita and Moksha through Akilam, despite Vaikundar's supreme nature throughout Akilam. Overall though all the followers consider Akilam as the supreme holy script, most of them are completely unaware of the unique monotheistic ideology and the monistic philosophy of it except a handful of scholars in Akilam.
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