“ON DESIRE, FREEDOM AND MORAL LAW: AN ACCOUNT OF DAYA KRISHNA’S UNDERSTANDING OF PURUȘĀRTHA”

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Silpi Sikha Mahanta Rosemin Akhtara

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In Indian context, among the four values artha (wealth) and kāma (desire) are agreed to the worldly matter and hence, can be considered as secular. Conversely, dharma (virtue) and mokșa (liberation, self perfection) are admitted as spiritual. But Daya Krishna has discussed these all as secular or worldly values. Moreover, he discusses morality as a unitary concept of value, desire, freedom, reason and law. Here, Daya Krishna discusses the concept of desire and freedom in association with the creation (in morality also) of something new. Hence, morality is a unitary concept of desire and freedom. The proposed paper is an attempt to expose Daya Krishna’s conception of Purușārtha or value as unitary conception of desire, freedom, reason, law etc. Attempt also is made to show how the main intention of Daya Krishna was not exactly to free values from a presupposed value-content, rather to re-interpret the traditional values in terms of situation and how he does it.

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