Dr. Sukanta Das
Volume-XII, Issue-IV, July 2024
Volume-XII, Issue-IV, July 2024 | ||
Published Online: 31.07.2024 | Page No: 293-298 | |||
Liberation
in Nyaya and Yoga Philosophy: A Brief
Dr.
Sukanta Das, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,
Dhruba Chand Halder College, Dakshin Barasat, South24 Pgs., West Bengal. India. | |
Everyone knows that the Nyaya Philosophyhas acquired an important place among other systems of Indian Philosophy. Its logic and arguments are too much acceptable to all. It also admits mokṣa as ultimate goal like other spiritual systems. It is dualistic and realistic system. On the other hand, Yoga Philosophy is an ancient spiritual system. Both the systems have admitted liberation as ultimate goal and it is possible through removing false knowledge through the practice of eight-fold means of yoga. Mokṣa is called in Nyaya as apavarga where in Yoga as kaivalya. The form of right knowledge after the Yoga is vivekakhyāti and in the Nyaya system is niḥṥreyasa. According to the Yoga Philosophy, liberation is called kaivalya whereas Nyaya system defines it as apavarga. Though we find that in the Nyaya system attainment of liberation is possible through the right knowledge of sixteen kinds of padarthas , yet it will not be possible only through reading of Nyayasutra , it will be possible only through the practice of eight-fold means of yoga. This paper is attempted to show how both the systems prescribe us the means for attaining liberation and which system is more effective for every mumukṣu. | |
Keywords: Apavarga, Moksa, Kaivalya, Vivekakhyati, Astanga-yoga, Nihsreyasa. |