tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Nyāya Vaisseşika
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creation of the world. These systems tried to explain the systematic and coherent working of the world and the cycle of birth, death and rebirth with the help of the unseen (adệsta), the karma force which determines the nature of successive births in accordance with the accumulated merit and demerit of the individual souls in their previous lives. The desert or (adşştı) thus tried to give system and coherence to the workings of the world and God's existence was made to a very great extent unnecessary. So long these realistic systems tried to explain the working of the world in terms of the atoms of the eternal substances in which movement is inherent. They tried to give a mechanical form to the operations of the world with the effect that an external agency in the form of God was made unnecessary and superfluous. It is disputable whether the Nyāya system admitted the existence of God right from the beginning or it was a result of interpolation by the later Naiyāyikas. However, a direct reference to the divine causality is obtained in the Nyāya Sūtra.' S. Radhakrishnan says --"While Vätsyāyana, Ud. dyotakara and Vis'vanātha regard it as the Nyāya view, Vācaspati, Udayana and Vardhamāna interpret it as a criticism of the Vedanta view, that God is the constituent cause of the universe.'? Udayana thinks that the adřsta is not sufficient to explain the world; if God is not the creator of the souls and the substances; he thinks God is necessary to regulate and
i Nyāya Sūtra, IV, 1.9.21. 2 Radhakrishnan S. : Indian Philosophy, Vol. II, p. 165.
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