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. ղśṣi첹 ٲśԲ
ղśṣi첹 is 岹śԲ which also believes in logically proven methods to attain valid knowledge. Kanād ѳܲī is the founder of the ղśṣi첹 ٲśԲ and the author of the ղūٰ. This ٲśԲ is entitled �ղśṣi첹' because of its belief in the existence of an independent entity named śṣa. However, in ancient times, it was an independent ٲśԲ. It had its logic, metaphysics, soteriology etc. but then the ղśṣi첹 system became similar to the ⲹ School.
Still, its seven special categories are providing a unique contribution to the Indian philosophical system:
�dharmaśṣaprasūtātdravyaguṇakarmasāmānyaśṣasamavāyānā� padārthānā� sādharmyavaidharmyābhyā� tattvajñānānniḥśreyasam� | (ղśṣi첹-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.�