Question

The sect which believed in abiding nature of destiny-
1. Jainism
2. Ajivakas
3. Charvak
4. Buddhism

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 2 : Ajivakas

• Ajivika sect believes in the biding nature of destiny.
• Ajivika is one of the nāstika or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy. Purportedly founded in the 5th century BCE by Makkhali Gosala.
• The Ajivikas’ central belief was that absolutely everything is predetermined by fate, or niyati, and hence human action has no consequence one way or the other.
• According to them, each soul’s course was like a ball of thread that is unraveling.
• It will go as it has to go, and similarly each cycle of life and death will have to be experienced, as will joy and sorrow.
• Once the ball of thread is fully unwound, its journey will end, and so the soul will be liberated through nirvana.