Volume-I, Issue-I, August, 2024
Novel Insights A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Multidisciplinary Research Journal |
| Volume-I, Issue-I, August, 2024 |
Issues of Eternal Jīvātmā: A Review Based on Nyāya Philosophy Debashis Ghosh, Post Graduate, Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India Email: ghoshdebashis354@gmail.com |
Received: 03.04.2024 | Accepted: 13.05.2024 | Published Online: 31.08.2024 |
Page No: 52-58 | DOI: 10.69655/novelinsight.vol.1.issue.01W.004 | |
Abstract | ||
Maharishi Gautama discusses the sixteen types of substances in the first Sūtra of the first ahnika of the first chapter of the Nyāyadarshan. According to the principles of Nyãya philosophy, the second substance is the Prameya or the knowledge. Prameya or the knowledge are twelve substances. The first known substance of these is the soul. Ātman is the creator of all happiness and sorrow, the consumer of happiness and sorrow, the knower of happiness and sorrow. The soul is eternal, embodied, beginningless and many in number. The soul is dual. Namely:-1.Jīvātmā, 2.Paramãtmã. Tattva knowledge about soul-like matter leads to salvation by discarding all false knowledge of that subject. The main topic of this article is to discuss eternal life based on Nyãya philosophy. But there are many doubts about whether the soul is eternal. Therefore, in Nyãya philosophy, Vedas have accepted the eternality of life by neutral reasoning. Keywords: Ātman, Jīvātmā,Eternity, Immortality, Emanation and Purification, Rebirth of Soul, Transientism, Apparition. | ||