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disappearance of the faults disappear the tendencies to activities (pravștti), with the disappearance of the tendency disappears birth (janma) and with birth (janma) disappear pain and in the disappearance of pain lies the absolute liberation (apa varga) or final beatitude (ni)s'reyas).". Thus, the propounders of these systems hold misapprehension (mithyājñāna) responsible for causing in us wrony ideas about our soul and the reality, and they advocate the removal of the misapprehension to achieve complete freedom from pain and suffering by removing the intermediary proximate causes -The Advaita Vedanta also advocates the removal of nescience under the spell of which we think wrongly, act wrongly and suffer due to mistaken identification with those things which do not form a part of our real innermost self.
Max Müller says regarding the attainment of liberation -".. the Nyāya and Vais'eșika systems though they also aim at salvation, are satisfied with pointing out the means of it as consisting in correct knowledge, such as can only be obtained from a clear apprehension of the sixteen topics treated by Gotama, or the six or seven categories put forward by Kaņāda. These two philosophies, agreeing as they do among themselves, seem to me to differ very characteristically from all the others in so far as they admit of nothing invisible or transcendent (Avyakta ) whether corresponding to Brahman or to Prakriti. They are satisfied with teaching that the
i Vätsyāyana : Gotama Nya ya Sūtras (Sapskrit), Com. pp. 12–13.
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