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This attempted justification, no doubt, does great credit to the faith of the writer, but there is nothing in the entire range of Hindu philosophy to support it. As said earlier, these systems are valuable as furnishing important evidence of Hindu ideals and beliefs which they vainly sought to place on an intellectual basis.
As our interest lies in getting at the real Hindu tenets of faith, I shall now endeavour to give you the points which the darsanus held in common with one another.
CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
(1) The immortality of the soul, whether as
Brahman or an individual.
(2) That the soul is in bondage and undergoes transmigration.
(3) That the condition of transmigration is full of pain and misery.
(4) That there is a way out of this mundane suffering and pain.
There is one additional striking feature of all these chools which Prof. Max Müller describes in the followng words:
"Though there is a strong religious vein running through the *ix so-called orthodox systems, they belong to a phase of thought in which not only has the belief in the many Vedic gods long been superseded by a belief in a upreme deity, . bat this phase also has been left behind to make room for a faith in a supreme power or in the Godhead which has no name but Brahman, or Sat, 'I am what I am" " (SSP, pp. 449-450). We also learn from Max Müller (Ibid. p. 450) :
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