The Doctrine of All-inclusiveness

The system of ‘Advaita’ is logically incapable to justify any sort of discrimination and exclusion on the basis of spacio-temporal demarcations of any sort. Therefore, the term ‘Hindu’ is inconsistent with the well conceived meaning of the term ‘Hindu’. If Hindu is one, who believes in ‘Advaita’ system, we can never brand anyone as ‘non-Hindu’. Moreover, no system of thought, whatsoever it may be, can also be included as non-Indian, if one believes in ‘Advaita’ logic. ‘Advaita’ propagates inclusiveness; it never permits anyone or anything to be kept in the excluded category. In this sense, the categorization of the streams of thought into Indian and Western also is illogical if one uses ‘Advaita’ logic as a tool to understand philosophy. Differences can never be conceived as deficiency, instead differences only justify the existence of plurality, which is quite consistent with all-inclusiveness. The ability to include everything is the strength of Indian life. Hence it could suffer the test of time. Only all-inclusive pluralistic systems have been able to survive. Non-pluralistic monistic systems have to face its natural defeat. The philosophy of all-inclusiveness is only the expression of non-violence or ‘ahimsa’. The person who believes in ‘Ahimsa’ has to admit the role and relevance of the other even if he/she opposes him. Hence, the doctrine of ‘Ahimsa’; has to proclaim that one has to love his enemy. This doctrine of all-inclusiveness and ‘Ahimsa’, have got relevance in every area of human activity. The present day economic system eliminates the very existence of plurality because it believes in competition and survival of the fittest. The most important ethical implication of the market economy is that it eradicates those who are not strong enough to make a survival. It bifurcates the whole world into categories of strong and the weak. The weaker section are either terminated or logically vanished away due to the competition which never justify co-existence.