VAISESIKA
Theism is only an appendage.
No faith in vedas as highest authority.
substance, quality, action, commonness, particularity,invariable concommittance,non existence/negation.
Doctrine of atoms of visesa.
Symmetry, consistency of divisions, precision of thought and expression characteristics of Vaisesika.
Carries to perfection and emphasised Nyaya which concerned solely with theory, logic and art of reasoning.
Soul and matter are distinct entities both real meeting of one with the other is the cause of miseries.
SOUL:
receptacle of knowledge
distinct from body and senses
different for each individual
omnipresent
eternal
perceived by mind
demonstrated by peculiar attributes like knowledge,desire,
aversion, pain and pleasure efort etc
cannot experience pain or pleasure unlessthro body
like earth etc it is also a dravya
Besides this soul there is Paramatman
one, seat of eternal knowledge known from valid proof
as maintainer of everything.
World is of four kinds based on earth, water, fire & air
All gross products can be reduced into atoms incapable of further analysis.
By will of Paramatman a movement is produced and atoms are brought together and creation takes place
Freedom from Samsara is the goal of life.
Means is the right knowledge of seven catagories according to Gautama.
process of bondage: false notions mistaking body for soul results in sankalpa vikalpa(nothing is
good anyway)
impelled by this either wrong or right
things are done
this leads to good or bad birth
pain is there till the birth lasts
process of liberation:
right knowledge of catagories
all false notions disappear
no more activity
no more birth
no more pain
all bliss
Philosophy termed as arambha or asatkriya
Dualistic and materialistic conception.
admit eternal existence of matter apart from the intelligent principle as independent of it.
Main stand on tarka resort to srutis only when it is con venient.
Effect is different from cause, but it is newly created in itĒstands in invariable concommitance(samanvaya)