Textbook
Mangalacarana
FREE PREVIEWNaming of Carvaka and Lokayata
Tattvas in Carvaka philosophy
Attainment of happiness - Mixture of happiness and suffering
Yajnas and Vedas are useless
Isvara, Moksa and Atma
Summary of Carvaka philosophy
Refutation of anumana pramana
Pratyaksa cannot give knowledge of vyapti
Anumana and sabda cannot give knowledge of vyapti
Upamana etc. also cannot give knowledge of vyapti
No other way to get knowledge of vyapti
Anyonya asraya defects in knowlegde of vyapti and upadhi
Empricial experience and objects
Summary of Carvaka philosophy
Refutation of Carvaka
FREE PREVIEWKnowledge of Vyapti not possible by Anvaya and Vyatireka
Knowledge of avinabhava by tadutpatti - Pancakarani
Knowledge of avinabhava through tadatmya
Answer to those who refute anumana
Four divisions of Buddhism - Bhavana Catustaya
Bhavana of ksanikatva - arthakriyakaritva
Stable padartha cannot have utlity by order
Stable objects cannot be arthakriyakari even with help of assisting agents
Defect when atisaya gives rise to second atisaya
Anavastha in second atisaya
Problem when atisaya is non-different from sthayi bhava
Stable object is not possible without order
Conclusion - Establishment of Ksanikavada
Refutation of samanya
Misery and svalakshana
Sunya - Madhyamika Sampradaya
Yogacara - Vijnanavada
Refutation of external objects' existence
Self-revealing buddhi
Sautrantika - Bahya artha Anumeyavada
Conclusion about existence of external objects
External objects can have anumana not pratyaksa
Alaya and prakriti vijnana
Refutation of vijnanavada
Four causes of jnana
Citta and its vikaras
Four noble truths of Buddha
Upasamhara of Sautrantika
Vaibhasika - Bahya artha Pratyaksatvavada
Nirvikalpa pratyaksa is the only pramana
Tattva is only one - differences in the paths
Worship of twelve ayatanas
Summary of Buddhism
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Satyanarayana Dasa, born in 1954, was drawn to the spiritual traditions of his home country India since his childhood. After receiving a postgraduate degree in 1978 from IIT Delhi and working in the United States for four years, he returned to India. There he studied the formal systems of Indian philosophy known as Ṣaḍ-darśana under the direct guidance of his guru Śrī Haridāsa Śāstrī Mahārāja and Swami Śyāma Śaraṇa Mahārāja.
This education was taken up in the traditional manner for more than 25 years, while he dedicated himself as a practitioner of bhakti yoga. In 1991 he accepted the traditional Vaiṣṇava order of renounced life, bābājī-veṣa. His main focus has been with the works of Jīva Gosvāmī, particularly on translating the Ṣaṭ Sandarbhas, into English and commenting on them. He also earned four śāstric degrees, and received both a law degree and a PhD in Sanskrit from Agra University.
Satyanarayana Dasa is the director of the Jiva Institute of Vaishnava Studies in Vrindavan, India. He is a visiting professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. In 2013 he was honored by the president of India, Pranab Mukherjee, for his extraordinary contribution in presenting Vedic culture and philosophy, both nationally and internationally.
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