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RELATION BETWEEN RELIGION
AND PHILOSOPHY Learned friends,
I feel really grateful to the authorities and friends of the All India Oriental Conference who have honoured me by inviting to preside over the Section of Religion and Philosophy of the 25th Session of ihe Conference, I ain fully aware of my limitations. So this assembly of the learned friends will be kind to me if I do not fully fulfil their expectations. I know that I am merely a student of Indian philosophy and am not a masterphilosopher of the subject. So this assembly of the scholars will excuse me if I commit any mistake from their point of view.
· Last year my learned predecessor Dr. Devraj had rightly stated in his presidential address that “hega: युरोपमें प्रायः दर्शनको धर्मसे अलग माना गया है और इस लिये कभी दर्शनका लक्ष्य या प्रयोजन मोक्षवादका प्रतिपादन नहीं रहा ।"1
That is to say as European or rather Western philosophers believe religion quite separate from philosophy they do not discuss salvation as the aim of philosophy. In fact Western philosophers have not discussed different metaphysial elements in their different philosophical systems with the aim to achieve certain goal or aim like ta in this or other life. Their discussions are purely logical and they are for the sake of knowledge of these metaphysical elements. ' Presidential address by Dr. Devraj P.! President, Religion and Philosophs section 24th Session A.I.O.C. Varanasi.
