Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.8
Vāda in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c2.8
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Some of the issues that have repeatedly surfaced in *vādas* are concerned with the conflict between *karma* (action) and *jñāna* (knowledge), choice between violence and non-violence, the clash between two ideologies — *pravṛtti* (empiricism) and *nivṛtti* (renunciation) and these still persist in modern India in some form or the other. The doctrine of cumulative pursuit of *karma* and *jñāna* continued till Śaṅkara vehemently discarded it.