I very much appreciate the direct and simple apprehension (head-on) of this controversy, this philosophical discrepancy between these two main doctrines of Vedic India.

However, in the modern setting, especially outside of India, my position is that it has the most relevance for Brahmanically inclined practitioners, especially those who have a strong previous life presence in that context of practice in India.

I’d say that this friction is a relationship that is similar to the one that exists in other belief systems such as the Abrahamic religious systems, where the main descending branches have been at odds since their advent, and to a great extent are principally the two most dueling modern religious symptoms. It is human nature to be contrarian and to vy for specialness and superiority.

As for the dvaita and advaita concepts, I don’t see them as mutually exclusive. At this point in time, my approach is that it is a schism that has a minor relevancy to yoga practice since it doesn’t translate into deeper purification. And, for that reason, better assessment of these systems can only truly happen for individual practitioners upon reaching corresponding or higher realms of existence and advancement.