Category: History - Religious
[We have said in our preliminary invocation "salutation to Siva, the abode of eternal knowledge, the storehouse of supreme felicity,"] but how can we attribute to the Divine Being the giving of supreme felicity, when such a notion has been utterly abolished by Chárváka, the cr...
[We have said in our preliminary invocation "salutation to Siva, the abode of eternal knowledge, the storehouse of supreme felicity,"] but how can we attribute to the Divine Bei...
2. CHAPTER II.At this point the Buddhists remark: As for what you (Chárvákas) laid down as to the difficulty of ascertaining invariable concomitance, your position is unacceptable, inasmuch a...
3. CHAPTER III.The Gymnosophists[40] (Jainas), rejecting these opinions of the Muktakachchhas,[41] and maintaining continued existence to a certain extent, overthrow the doctrine of the moment...
4. CHAPTER IV.This doctrine of the Árhatas deserves a rational condemnation, for whereas there is only one thing really existent, the simultaneous co-existence of existence, non-existence and...
5. CHAPTER V.Ánanda-tírtha (Púrna-prajña, or Madhva) rejected this same Rámánuja system, because, though like his own views, it teaches the atomic size of the soul, the servitude of the soul...
6. CHAPTER VI.Certain Máhesvaras disapprove of this doctrine of the Vaishnavas known by its technicalities of the servitude of souls and the like, inasmuch as bringing with it the pains of de...
7. CHAPTER VII.[The seventh system in Mádhava's Sarva-darsana-sangraha is the Saiva-darsana. This sect is very prevalent in the South of India, especially in the Tamil country; it is said to h...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Other Máhesvaras are dissatisfied with the views set out in the Saiva system as erroneous in attributing to motiveless and insentient things causality (in regard to the bondage...
9. CHAPTER IX.Other Máhesvaras there are who, while they hold the identity of self with God, insist upon the tenet that the liberation in this life taught in all the systems depends upon the...
10. CHAPTER X.Whoso wishes to escape the reality of pain, which is established by the consciousness of every soul through its being felt to be essentially contrary to every rational being, an...
11. CHAPTER XI.The principle that final bliss, _i.e._, the absolute abolition of pain, arises from the knowledge of the truth [though in a certain sense universally accepted], is established i...
12. CHAPTER XII.An objector may here ask, "Are you not continually repeating that merit (_dharma_) comes from the practice of duty (_dharma_), but how is duty to be defined or proved?" Listen a...
13. CHAPTER XIII.If any one asks, "Where are we to learn how to separate a root and an affix so as to be able to say, 'This part is the original root and this is an affix,'" may we not reply tha...
14. CHAPTER XIV."But how can we accept the doctrine of illusory emanation [thus held by the grammarians, following the guidance of the _púrva_ and _uttara_ Mímámsá schools], when the system of...
15. CHAPTER XV.We now set forth the doctrine of that school which professes the opinions of such Munis as Patañjali and others, who originated the system of the Theistic Sánkhya philosophy. Th...