Essay name: Nyaya-Vaisheshika (critical and historical study)
Author:
Aruna Rani
Affiliation: Panjab University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay studies Nyaya-Vaisheshika鈥擜 combination of two of the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. The study also discusses in detail the authors of various works and critically analyzes key concepts of Nyaya-Vaisesika. Such Indian philosophies seek the direct realization of the Atman (the self) to attain ultimate freedom and bliss.
Chapter 5 - Nature of the physical world
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sattva, rajas, and tamas, as constituting its nature. It
is obvious that the sankhya-Yoga vas primarily interested
in the different aspects in which nature appears to us,
namely, illuminating, active and stupefying, and that,
obviously, this triple aspect was arrived at by a
consideration of the ways in which the world of
manifestation shows itself. For, according to this
particular school, the effect is practically identical
with the cause; and unless these three aspects were really
present in the original prak峁泃i, they could not have found
a place in the manifested universe
The Advaita-Ved膩ntin rejects all the explanations
except the vivarta or illusory projection guaranteeing no
substantiality, and, therefore, no true being, to the
physical world. In his view, the physical world has only
an illusory reality produced by the false projection of
May &.
Yogacara system of Buddhism holds the physical
universe as a projection of consciousness, but not exactly
illusory in character like the 'hare's horn' or the 'sky-
flower'. For all practical purposes, the world is real
though changing every moment; but its origin is to be
traced to the operation of the mind, which is the only
reality; and though in an ultimate reference everything
