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JAINA CONCEPT OF GOD IN JAINA THEISM
higher life and to live more perfectly in the spirit. Indian philosophy deals with problems of this nature, knowledge of truth and vision of truth (darśana). Every Indian philosophy holds, in its own way, that there can be a direct realization of truth (tattva-darśana).
A man of realization becomes free; and one who lacks it is entangled in the world. The word darśana, which is usually, translated as 'philosophy' means to see or have experience. From this we may gather that Indian philosophy is not merely metaphysical speculation, but has its foundations in immediate perception. God and the soul are regarded by Indian minds, not as concept speculative and problematical, as is the case in Western Philosophy, but as a thing directly known. They can be experienced not merely by a chosen few, but, under right conditions, by all humanity.
Theism is the word created by the Western scholars and philosophers to define belief in god or God, or belief in divine creation, or more commonly taken as belief in existence of God. Philosophies in India are essentially spiritual. Except a few, allphilosophical schools of Indian philosophy believe in God, according to their own definition of God. Ignorance of this subject, classification among philosophies, even Indian scholars are confused. To western mind, Indian philosophy means two or three "Silly notions about māyā or delusiveness of world, karma or belief in fate, tyaga or the ascetic desire to get rid of the flesh.7
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During Vedic period, settlement of Aryans and gradual expansion of Aryan culture and civilization spread in India, and also it was a beginning of sublime idealism. Thoughts (philosophic) were signified by Mantras, hymns envisaged in Brāhmaṇas and the
"Samyag-darśana-sampannāḥ
karma bhirna nibadhyate;
vihināstu
sanisaram pratipadyate. Manu-samhita, 6.74 Swami Prabhavanada "Spiritual Heritage of India", 2000, P-5 Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, “Indian Philosophy", Vol. -1, 1997, P-24
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