History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c25.s3.46

c25.s3.46

As the propagator of the doctrine of the futility of human effort and of the all-embracing power of Destiny, Ājīvikism cannot have failed to “ enrich the systems which supplanted and supplemented it ”. It would indeed be an error of over-caution to assert that this system, in the two thousand years of its existence, had no influence on the development of wide-spread and popular theories in agreement with its fundamental doctrine of determinism.