Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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METAPHYSICS • But though not valid as Metaphysical explanationsof the world, boch Vedanta and Sankhya are higuly valuable to us in so far as they throw interesting side light on the terlets of the ancient Vedic faith of our Hindu brethren, since they both acknowledge the authority of the Vedas and, like the other syscems of Hindu Philosophy, only profess to furnish philosophical explanation of the revealer word. The Hindu mind, it is obvious, would have sooner or later plucked ofi these new offshoots if they did not furnislı, or at least, did not profess to furnish Metaplıysical props for the accepted doctrines of the faith. It is certain that they would never have been acknowledged as belonging to the family. And what is true of these diverse schools of Hindu Philosophy in relation to the tenets of Hinduism alse holds good with respect to the relationship between Sufi-isin and Islain.
The inost inportant thing for us to kuow, then, is that all these three systemos regard the human soul to be fully divine in nature and essence,
I must now pass ou to a consideratiou of the Nyaya or the "logical" school. We have had occasion to find fault with its quaint conception of vyapti which is described as a homogeneous example, but it is refreshing to note how Gotama proceeds to tackle the argument of the eternal pai vapakshin (oppouent) who: denies the existence of ani external world. Gotama objects to this doctrine, " Gist of all because if it were impossible to prove the existence of any external things