Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study)
by Sadhu Gyanananddas | 2021 | 123,778 words
This page relates ‘Vaisheshika Darshana’ of the study on the Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam in Light of Swaminarayan Vachanamrut (Vacanamrita). His 18th-century teachings belong to Vedanta philosophy and were compiled as the Vacanamrita, revolving around the five ontological entities of Jiva, Ishvara, Maya, Aksharabrahman, and Parabrahman. Roughly 200 years later, Bhadreshdas composed a commentary (Bhasya) correlating the principles of Vachanamrut.
2.4. Vaiśeṣika Darśana
Vaiśeṣika is darśana which also believes in logically proven methods to attain valid knowledge. Kanād Munī is the founder of the Vaiśeṣika Darśana and the author of the Vaisheshiksūtras. This Darśana is entitled ‘Vaiśeṣika' because of its belief in the existence of an independent entity named viśeṣa. However, in ancient times, it was an independent Darśana. It had its logic, metaphysics, soteriology etc. but then the Vaiśeṣika system became similar to the Nyāya School.
Still, its seven special categories are providing a unique contribution to the Indian philosophical system:
“dharmaviśeṣaprasūtātdravyaguṇakarmasāmānyaviśeṣasamavāyānāṃ padārthānāṃ sādharmyavaidharmyābhyāṃ tattvajñānānniḥśreyasam” | (Vaiśeṣika-sūtra 1/1/4)
“Substance, quality, action, genus, difference, co-inherence, and non-existence There are seven categories, which are emerged from dharma. By the knowledge of these seven, liberation is possible.”