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​The Ambedkar Jayanti has just gone by and our social-media feeds stand revisited by Hinduism loathing quotes by the father of our constitution.
“By its very genius Hinduism believes in social separation, which is another name for social disunity and even creates social separation.”
While this could be an endless discussion, what needs to be categorically stated is that none of Sanatana Dharma’s founding philosophies (Sankhya, Vedanta, Yoga, Vaisheshika, Nyaya, Purva Mimamsa, Charvaka) advocated inequality of any sort.
What sort of stuff, then, did these philosophies concern themselves with? Here’s a glimpse.
A minor philosophy like Vaisheshika propounds that the phenomenal universe consisted of six Padarthas (Seven, actually, if you consider ‘Abhava’). Dravya, or Substance, which is the first Padartha, is described as the innermost cause of the aggregated, collective effect; the fundamental substratum of phenomena in which all properties and qualities reside, and in which all action occurs. This Dravya is held to be nine fold, consisting of earth, water, light, air, ether, time, space, soul(self), and mind.
Imagine! These guys were clubbing together the elements with time/space and consciousness. Isn’t it obvious that such a philosophy’s Ishwara(Logos) - much like James Cameroon’s Eywa - would’ve been quite incapable of taking sides?
(BTW, that still leaves us with five Padarthas to comprehend.)