Sankhya Darshana Samkhya, also Sankhya, Sāṃkhya or Sāṅkhya (Sanskrit: सांख्य, IAST: sāṃkhya – ‘enumeration’) is one of the six schools of classical Indian philosophy. Sage Kapila is traditionally considered the founder of the Samkhya school, although historical verification is not possible. It is considered to be one of the oldest philosophical systems in India. Samkhya […]
Visheshika Darshana Vaisheshika, or Vaiśeṣika, (Sanskrit: वैशॆषिक) is one of the six Hindu schools of philosophy (orthodox Vedic systems) in India. Historically, it has been closely associated with the Hindu school of logic, Nyaya. Vaisesika holds a form of atomism and assumes that all objects in the physical universe are reducible to a finite number […]
Nyaya Darshana Nyāya (Sanskrit ni-āyá, literally “recursion”, used in the sense of “syllogism, conclusion”) is the name given to one of the six orthodox or astika schools of Hindu philosophy—specifically, the school of logic. The Nyaya school of philosophical speculation is based on texts known as the Nyaya Sutras written by Aksapada Gautama from around […]
Mimamsa Darshana Mīmāmsā (मीमांसा), a Sanskrit word meaning “investigation”, is the name of the astika (“orthodox”) school of Hindu philosophy whose primary inquiry into the nature of dharma is based on a close hermeneutic of the Vedas. Its basic principles are ritualism (orthopraxis), antiasceticism and antimysticism. The central aim of the school is the clarification […]
Rebirth in Hinduism – Punar Janma The concept of rebirth is widely believed in Hinduism as well as in the other religions. It poses critical questions about the existence of beings and life the death of their physical bodies. Why is one born on earth, and why does one suffer? What happens to a soul […]
