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ideal of such systems such as Nyaya-Vaisesika and the Sankhya too.56 Advaita Vedanta also is a philosophy of self-realisation par excellenceleading to the identification of the Soul and Brahman. Avidyā is the common principle of bondage, so knowledge is essential for mukti. The karma-phenomenology of the Jainas is the outcome of their realistic and externalistic approach. Constitutional freedom of the Soul is a logical necessity. This is simple satkaryavāda. Unless the Soul has got some potentiality, how can it manifest ?
56 T. M. P. Mahadevan, Presidential Address to the Nagpur Session of Indian Philo
sophical Congress (Proceeding), p. 7.
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