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Pleasure and pain result from the contact of soul, sense, mind and object. From pleasure arises desire. From one pleasure, raga or desire is produced successively for pleasure of a similar kind or for the means of attaining it. From pain due to one cause, aversion arises with regard to such pain or with regard to its source.  
 
Pleasure and pain result from the contact of soul, sense, mind and object. From pleasure arises desire. From one pleasure, raga or desire is produced successively for pleasure of a similar kind or for the means of attaining it. From pain due to one cause, aversion arises with regard to such pain or with regard to its source.  
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A very powerful impression is produced by constant or habitual experience of objects, through the influence, of which, a sad lover who does not win his mistress his beloved in every object. He who has been bitten i,ees snake beholds snakes everywhere, on account of strong impression regarding that. a The Faults That Lead to Bondage Desire (Raga), aversion (Dvesha) and infatuation (Moha) are called faults (Doshas), as they are incentives to activity which serves to bind the doer to this world, Gautama also says: "Faults have for their characteristic, incitement to activity or worldly occupation" (Nyaya Sutras, I-1-viii). The Knowledge That Results in Release Intuitive knowledge of the Self destroys false knowledge. Consequently, attraction, aversion, stupidly or Moha and other faults vanish. Then activity also disappears. Then birth due to action does not take place. Consequently, pain connected with birth also disappears.
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=== Faults That Lead to Bondage ===
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Desire (Raga), aversion (Dvesha) and infatuation (Moha) are called faults (Doshas), as these bind the doer of an activity to this world.  
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    .......        In its early stages, the Vaiśeṣika was an independent philosophy with its own metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and path to mukti or liberation. Over time, the Vaiśeṣika system became similar in its philosophical procedures, ethical conclusions and in it's theory of liberation to the Nyāya Darshana, but retained its difference in epistemology and metaphysics.    
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=== The Knowledge That Results in Release ===
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Intuitive knowledge of the Self destroys false knowledge. Consequently, attraction, aversion, stupidly or Moha and other faults vanish. Then activity also disappears. Then birth due to action does not take place. Consequently, pain connected with birth also disappears.
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    In its early stages, the Vaiśeṣika was an independent philosophy with its own metaphysics, epistemology, logic, ethics, and path to mukti or liberation. Over time, the Vaiśeṣika system became similar in its philosophical procedures, ethical conclusions and in it's theory of liberation to the Nyāya Darshana, but retained its difference in epistemology and metaphysics.    
 
* Vaiśeṣika school of philosophy accepts only two reliable means to knowledge: Pratyaksha pramana (perception) and Anumana pramana (inference).  
 
* Vaiśeṣika school of philosophy accepts only two reliable means to knowledge: Pratyaksha pramana (perception) and Anumana pramana (inference).  
 
* Vaiśeṣika considers their scriptures as indisputable and valid means to knowledge, and acknowledge that Vedas are the foundation of their siddhantas.
 
* Vaiśeṣika considers their scriptures as indisputable and valid means to knowledge, and acknowledge that Vedas are the foundation of their siddhantas.

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