Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.17

c2.17

One of the issues that consistently came up in all the knowledge texts is related to freedom. The concept of salvation in *darśanas* seeks individual liberation linked to social aspirations. The last criterion of *dharma* defined by Manu is *svasya ca priyam ātmanaḥ* (that which pleases the self). There is a continuity of search for the liberation in Smṛti texts, philosophical discourses, texts on aesthetics and literary theory through logics and reasoning, and this has continued to the twentieth century.