Systems of Indian Philosophy

SR No.: 002019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Virchand R Gandhi
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 212
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Philosophy
File Size: 10 MB

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THE SYSTEMS OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY
The present edition of Gandhi's lecture-series is prepared on the basis of his own manuscript of it that is in the possession of Shri Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya, Bombay. However, this manuscript does not contain anything on Jainism. But the lecture (with the title 'Jainism') published on pp. 41-60 of The Jaina Philosophy begins by mentioning that it is the last lecture of some lectureseries; from this we have surmised that here is the lecture on Jainism that belongs to our lecture-series (which too needs in the forin of its last member a lecture on Jainism). Maybe our surmise is wrong but most probably it is not. Again, we learn from The Universalist Messenger, Chicago, February 10, 1894 (quoted at the end of the Selected Speeches of Shri Virchand Raghavji Gandhi' published in May 1964 in the form of 'Shri Vallabhsuri Jaina Literature Series, No. 10') : "The series of lectures on Oriental philosophy given by Mr. Virchand R. Gandhi every Monday evening at the residence of Mr. Chas. Howard, 6558 Stewart Boulevard, are growing more and more interesting. The subject last Monday evening was the ethical side of the Yoga philosophy.” This (along with the fact that the first blank page of our manuscript carries the address '6558, Stewart Avenue, Englewood III)' is the basis of our surmising that our lecture-series was delivered at Chicago in 1894. Here again our surmise might possibly be wrong but most probably it is not.
Mistakes occurring in the manuscript that are obviously the slips of pen have been corrected by us without making mention of the fact, but the places where a mistake is just suspected or where the manuscript is not legible have been duly noted. The division of a lecture into sections and of a section into paragraphs (as also the titling of sections) has been undertaken by us with a view to facilitating the reader's comprehension of Gandhi's line of argument. In the lectures on Sānkhya and Yoga Gandhi closely follows certain texts of the systems; hence at appropriate places a precise reference