This course discusses Nyaya Siddhanta Muktavali, a book written by Visvanatha Panchanan which gives the basic principles of the New Schools Nyaya and Vaisheshika.
Description:
The Nyaya and Vaisheshika schools of thought can hardly be differentiated except for a historical study of their lines of development. Nyaya has completely taken over the conception of a realistic universe as elaborated in the Vaisheshika. Nyaya-Vaisheshika is analytical in its methods. The Nyaya school was founded by the sage Gautama, also called Aksapada literally meaning ‘eye in the leg’. Kanada is the founder of the Vaiseshika school. Kanada lived in the forest and sustained himself by picking up grains (kana). That is how he got his name.
The spiritual world is not somewhere else. It is right here. It depends on your angle of vision – same place, same thing is now different. Like a tv with 100 channels, it depends on which channel. Whatever show you are watching, you are absorbed in that show. All is there, all the channels are hanging in the same ether – depending on where you tune to, you see that. Krishna is right here, but you are not tuned to Him.
