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Generally, every school of thought has two branches; i.e., ethics and metaphysics. Ethics relates to the code of conduct; metaphysics refers to the mode of thinking. The history of western philosophy, informs us that Plato and Aristotle took help of politics and ethics for philosophy in the ancient period. Philosophers of the middle age borrowed the help of theology to study philosophy. In the 19th century Newton and Francis Bacon took the help of History, politics and science. But Indian philosophy is free from these western influences and developed on account of bounty of nature and largely land protected by Himalayan mountains in the north, by sea in west, south and east. Indian philosophy is evolved by intuitions of sagas and it is basically spiritual in nature. In Indian tradition Darsana is the nearest equivalent meaning of philosophy. So Indians accepted Darsana is similar to their philosophy. Haribadra, a Jain saint and writer of various books of Jain philosophy had used the this word in 6th century in his book titled Saddarsana Samuccay . Latter, Madhwacharya, advocated 15 schools of philosophy in his work Sarva Darsana Samgrah . The system of philosophy for Indians is an insight or Darsana, it is the vision of truth and not a matter of logical argument and proof.