Relation Between Religion And Philosophy

Author(s): Jitendra S Jetly
Publisher: Jitendra S Jetly

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to this momentary world. The same is fulfilled by मिथ्यात्व of the संसार or the world. The एकात्मवाद or एक चैतन्यवाद or ब्रह्मवाद had attracted many people who were tired of this world. It has affected the life of good many saints in this country whether Saivaits or Vaisuvaits. The system is also responsible to create good fas also but it is also responsible for the creation of a pretty big army of fans who merely talk regarding philosophy of Vedanta, and are a burden to the society. Sankara's aim in preaching perhaps was to have good selfless volunteers for the uplift of the society but unlike all other systems it has followers without proper understanding of the heart of its principles, and downfall of the system is seen. Of course, the different activities of Ramkrishna Mission and other such activities are going on but on the whole in the modern days people have not much faith in such philosophy for which to sonie extent the behaviour of the followers is responsible. In view of such condition a marxist friend could opine that religion is the opium and due to such defamation of Religion this country has come to this sorrowful stage. In fact, this is not the case. In reality any ism is opium when followed blindly, whether it is religious or political. Therefore, Stevenson a great thinker has rightly said that "The real enemies of the greatmen and their principles are their blind followers." I would like to improve upon the statement by adding one word and state that "The real enemies of the greatmen and their principles are their blind and knave followers."
Thus we have briefly surveyed all the systems and we now know that every Indian philosophical system had