Mind and intellect

 

Nayaya Philosophy took the mind or intellect totally different from the mind of Samkhayas. Samlhya concept of mind is eternal while Naya took it as non-eternal. For Samkya mind is a comic principle independent of self and meant to account for the existence of the light of reasoning in the whole universe.

 Nayaya took it as subjective activity of thought in the acquisition of knowledge or in the lighting up and appreciating of the inert impressions received by the senses. This knowledge can come to an end and vanish by forgetfulness while an eternal essence like the mind of Samkhya, though it may ignored can never be destroyed.

 Nayaya declared clearly that nor does knowledge belong to the manas which is but the instrument of knowledge, it arises from the conjunction of atman (soul) with manas and on the other side of mana with indriyas (senses).Manas is the true instrument and the wielder of an axe must be someone different from it.

 But Lokayat, the Indian materialistic philosophy, holds that “What was called soul was not a thing by itself but simply the body over again, it is

the body that felt, that saw and hear that remember and think, thought the saw it every day rotting away and decomposing with the smile appealing to the intoxicating power that can be develop by mixing certain ingredients which by themselves are not intoxicating as an analogy to the production of soul from body.” Charvaks clearly said that in a sentence, I am fat is totally an assertion about a body it alone is the soul and nothing other then it.

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