Jai Srila Prabhupada!


                         VAISESIKA


Theism is only an appendage.

No faith in vedas as highest authority.

substance, quality, action, commonness, particularity,invariable
concommittance,non existence/negation.

Doctrine of atoms of visesa.

Symmetry, consistency of divisions, precision of thought andexpression     © characteristics of Vaisesika.


Carries to perfection and emphasised Nyaya which concerned
solely with theory, logic and art of reasoning.


Soul and matter are distinct entities© both real © meeting of
one with the other is the cause of miseries.

SOUL:
     receptacle of knowledge
     distinct from body and senses
     different for each individual
     omnipresent
     eternal
     perceived by mind
     demonstrated by peculiar attributes like knowledge,desire,
             aversion, pain and pleasure efort etc
     cannot experience pain or pleasure unlessthro body
     like earth etc it is also a dravya

Besides this soul there is Paramatman 

     ©one, seat of eternal knowledge known from valid proof 
      as maintainer of everything.
World is of four kinds based on earth, water, fire & air

All gross products can be reduced into atoms © incapable 
of further analysis.

By will of Paramatman a movement is produced and atoms are
brought together and creation takes place

Freedom from Samsara is the goal of life.

Means is the right knowledge of seven catagories according
to Gautama.

process of bondage: false notions © mistaking body for soulÜn      ÜŒ                    results in sankalpa vikalpa(nothing is
                                  good anyway)
                    impelled by this either wrong or right
                                 things are done
                    this leads to good or bad birth
                    pain is there till the birth lasts

process of liberation: 
                    right knowledge of catagories
                    all false notions disappear
                    no more activity
                    no more birth
                    no more pain
                    all bliss

Philosophy termed as arambha or asatkriya

Dualistic and materialistic conception.


admit eternal existence of matter apart from the intelligent
principle as independent of it.

Main stand on tarka © resort to srutis only when it is con©
venient.


Effect is different from cause, but it is newly created in itªstands in invariable concommitance(samanvaya)Æ Æ