Abstract

The Hindu approach to philosophy tends to be epistemological rather than ontological. Metaphysics is rational analysis of experience rather than rational analysis of being. Being is grouped with consciousness and bliss, in the classic formula, as one of the characteristics of absolute experience. In ordinary experience the problem is to distinguish between those contents which both appear and exist and so are real and those which appear but do not exist and so are illusory. Existence is to be sought within the realm of experience.