Samayasara OR Nature of Self

SR No.: 011119
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A Chakravarti
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1950
Total Pages: 406
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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SAMAYASARA
a perverse political philosophy is developed which pervaded the whole European culture and civilisation and resulted in the two destructive world wars.
The other development of this Hegelian absolutism is in the economic direction. Karl Marx, the founder of communism claims himself to be a disciple of Hegel. His masterpiece “The Capital” is the Bibe of the Communist He postulates that the socio-political development is according to the process of the Hegelian dialecticmaterialistic. Tracing the growth of economic development up to 19th Century, he points out the intrinsic contradiction between capital and labour and emphasises the intrinsic identity and unity of both. The capitalist who controls the productive machinery is but the creature of labour and as such should be made subordinate to labour which is the ultimate creator of wealth. The economic organisation which allows the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few capitalists who happen to control the productive industries and who engage thousands of labourers to run the machinery according to Marx is an iniquitous economic system.
- Hence the restoration of the economic organisation according to Karl Marx must consist in restoring the true controlling agency to that power which creates wealth, 1.e. the labour which creates wealth must necessarily be controlling agency of the capital and must run the industrial organisation. The creator of wealth must have the right to control it and to enjoy it. This economic revolution is also the result of Hegelian absolutism in subjugating the organisation of society. Thus the modern civilisation of Europe which started with Hegelian absolutism exhibits both the beneficial influence as well as the baneful influence of the Hegelian absolutism.
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SAMAYASARA INTRODUCTION II-SELF IN INDIAN THOUGHT Before we begin the systematic study of the Darsanas let us try to acquaint ourselves first with the general tendencies of Indian thought prior to the rise of Buddhism. All the avail