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
Sārökhya
The arguments that there must be someone who must be enjoying the composite things of the world, and that there must be some controller of the vast expanse of nature ultimately imply the argument from 'design' as it is called by M. Hiriyanna. This argument from design implies an experiencer for experienceable objects. Usually God is supposed to be the contriver of such objects of experience which imply the existence of experiencer of them; but the Samkhya being atheistic, ascribes such existence to the Purusa instead of to God. It is really interesting to note the remarks of M. Hiriyanna in this respect. He compares the Nyāya Vais'esika doctrine with the Sā akhya in the following way—“In the latter (Nyāya Vais'esika), the material out of which the universe is made possesses no spontaneity of its own. Its various parts have accordingly to be brought together and also kept together by some external factor-God or Karma or both. But here there is a great advance in the conception of Praksti in that it is of an organic entity. It is able to develop of itself. Such an entity has no need for an external manipulator. This is at the bottom of the atheism of the Samkhya and shows the futility of attempts like that of Vijñana Bhiksu to real theism into the doctrine. But Praksti, though its conception is different from that of the Nyāya Vaislesika atoms, does not evolve for itself, and therefore, points, to sentient Purusa. It is this teleology implicit in Prakịti that the design argument here makes the use of.". Thus,
H. Hiriyanna M. : Outlines of Indian Philosophy, Vol. II. p. 280.
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