INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

INDIAN PHILOSOPHICAL SYSTEMS
AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS
The aim of all philosophical systems excepting
the Carvaka materialist is moksa or liberation of the
individual soul from the bondage to the world of
manifestation and society, for these are fields of misery
rather than of freedom, fields or pleasure trailed by
pain.
So the pratijna of each system, Vaisesika,
Nyaya, Samkhya, Yoga, and the Vedanta appears to be
escape from misery by knowing the truth about nature,
soul, and all relations which is that they are binding and
abridging man’s consciousness or existence. Karma
Mimamsa which promises the enjoyment of the yonder
world and also of this world by performing yajnas and
other sacrifices finally tells us that such enjoyments of
heaven etc. are not permanent but transitory though
very much prolonged than the instantaneous perishing