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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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
143 [ Tr. "The real characteristic of the best Dharma is harmlessness. Atheism, inclinations to injure, avarice, etc., lead to hell." -Ashva-Medha Parva (PHB. Part II. pp. 636, 637 and 639) ).
Our survey of the different systems of Hindu Philo. sophy is now complete. We find them in several instances contradicting one another as well as the sound principles of good reason. They are ignorant of the true Lattvas. The suminum bonum they try to encompass is obscure and indefinite, though they all agree upon showing respect to the Vedas. As Prof. Max Müller whose treatment of Hindu Metaphyscis is marked with great sympathy and good will remarks:
"...... while we can goderstand that each of the six
systems......ay succeed in removing pain, it is very difficult to see in what that actual happiness was supposed to consist which remained after that removal. The Vedanta speaks of Ananda, or bliss, that resides in the highest Brabman; but the happiness to be enjoyed by the souls near the throne of Brabman, and in a kind of paradise, is not considered as final, but is assigned to a lower class only. That paradise has no attraction, and would give up real satisfaction to those who have reached the knowledge of the highest Brahman. Their bliggfal kuowledge is described as oneness with Brah: man, bat no details are added. The bliss held out by the Sankhyas is also very vagae and indefinite. It oan arise only from the Parusha bimself, if left entirely to himself, far from all the illusions and distorbances arising from objective nature, or the works of Prakriti.