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== Nyaya and Vaiseshika Darshanas ==
== Nyaya and Vaiseshika Darshanas ==
The Vaiseshika darshana is reagarded as conducive to the study of all systems. It deals with the Padarthas (catergories) and the entire universe is reduced to six or seven padarthas. The word 'padartha' means 'the meaning of a word' or 'the object signified by a word'. All objects of knowledge or all reals come under padartha. Padartha means an object which can be thought (jneya) and named (abhidheya). The Vaiseshika system is a pluralistic realism, a philosophy of identity and difference, which emphasizes that the heart of reality consists on difference. It is a mere catalogue of the knowables, an enumeration of the diverse reals without any attempt to synthesize them. Originally the Vaiseshika believed in the six categories and the seventh, that of Abhava or negation was added on later. The Vaiseshika divides all existent reals which are all objects of knowledge into two classes - bhava or being and abhava or non-being. All knowledge necessarily points to an object beyond and independent of it.
The Vaiseshika darshana is reagarded as conducive to the study of all systems. It deals with the Padarthas (catergories) and the entire universe is reduced to six or seven padarthas. The word 'padartha' means 'the meaning of a word' or 'the object signified by a word'. All objects of knowledge or all reals come under padartha. Padartha means an object which can be thought (jneya) and named (abhidheya). The Vaiseshika system is a pluralistic realism, a philosophy of identity and difference, which emphasizes that the heart of reality consists on difference. It is a mere catalogue of the knowables, an enumeration of the diverse reals without any attempt to synthesize them. Originally the Vaiseshika believed in the six categories and the seventh, that of Abhava or negation was added on later. The Vaiseshika divides all existent reals which are all objects of knowledge into two classes - bhava or being and abhava or non-being. All knowledge necessarily points to an object beyond and independent of it.
Nyaya-Vaiseshika believes in the doctrine of Asatkaryavada which means that the effect does not pre-exist in its cause. The effect is a new beginning, a fresh creation. It is also called Arambhavada or Paramanukaranavada. All physical things are produced by the combinations of atoms. Creation thus means the combination of atoms in different proportions and destruction means the dissolution of such combinations. The material cause of the Universe is neither produced nor destroyed. It is the eternal atoms. It is only the atomic combinations which are produced and which get destroyed.
Vaiseshika develops metaphysics and ontology; Nyaya develops
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