Introduction : 6.

Even this is not a new idea at all.

Among the philosophical literature of Bharatham, we find that we had among our great thinkers, those who had advocated a synthesis of 'Karma and Jnana' and they were called the "Samuccayavadins."

1. A school of thinkers who advocated the Yoga of Synthessis.

2. Karma-Pradhana.

3. Jnana-Pradhana.

4. Sama-Pradhana.

Even among these advocates of synthesis, there were three distinct groups, ( shown above ) :

Some emphasising the need for a synthesis in which importance should be given to Karmam, others to Jnanam, and still others who glorified a synthesis of equal doses of both action and knowledge.



Secular or Divine : 

Roughly we may say that, during every changing century in the history of man, there was a swing between the two extremes; work and knowledge; secular and divine.

Our era advocating the quiet growth in the inward life and attainment of the consequent mental and intellectual culture, and another era emphasising and advocating endless bloodshed, copious sweat, and fatiguing toil in bringing about more and more material welfare into the domestic, social and national life and thereby rising men and institutions to the peaks of "Mammon's own heaven!"

To be continued ....