adrishta
अदृष्ट adrishtaThe unseen; in Nyaya-Vaisheshika the unseen moral force of merit and demerit, administered by Ishvara.
Where this term appears
- What is Vaisheshika? Philosophy
The answer is adrishta , "the unseen," the accumulated moral residue of the deeds of all the souls who will inhabit the coming world, a stored force that bends the atoms toward exactly those combinations that w…
- What holds the charge Treatise
Nyaya also posited an unseen moral force, which they called adrishta , the unseen, the residue of merit and demerit attaching to a soul.