Rajgeeta English Translation and Comentry on Atmasiddhi Shastra

Author(s): Shrimad Rajchandra, Manu Doshi
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Mission

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Räjgeetä
The list obviously keeps Jainism and Buddhism out, because they do not subscribe to Veds. In order to accommodate them the schools are mentioned a bit differently. Since Nyäy and Vaisheshik schools have much in common, they are grouped together under the title Naiyäyik. Similarly Poorva Mimänsä and Uttar Mimänsä are grouped together under the title Vedänt. The six schools then consist of Sänkhya, Yog, Vedänt, Naiyayik, Jainism, and Buddhism.
All these schools have the same common objective of liberation. The differences arise on account of differing concepts about the creation, creator, soul, and liberation. Sänkhya, Jainism and Buddhism, for instance, do not believe in the creation of the world, while other schools believe in creation and a creator. Sänkhya, Yog, Naiyäyik, and Jainism believe in endless number of individual souls. Vedänt believes in one single soul. Buddhism does not believe in the existence of everlasting soul. Such differences arise, because most of the people tend to think from their own viewpoint. Jainism takes into consideration all possible viewpoints. The six Fundamentals mentioned here present the synthesis of all different viewpoints. It is therefore said in this stanza that those Fundamentals constitute the six ideologies.
Some people like to accommodate even the atheist belief of Chärväk within the framework of six schools. For that purpose they group Sänkhya and Yog together, because their approach is more or less similar. As such, they treat Sänkhya, Naiyayik, Vedänt, Jainism, Buddhism and Chärväk as six schools of thought. In the Stavan (Adoration song) of Naminäth, the 21st Tirthankar, the great philosopher-poet-monk Anandghanji has treated Sänkhya, Yog, Buddhism, Mimänsä, Chärväk, and Jainism
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