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Sankhya was called philosophy whereas the process of meditational practice was called the yoga philosophy. They were separated. One cannot say this division was right. In actuality philosophy is that which can present a comprehensive picture of all the truths in our life. Meditational practice is indeed the philosophy of the real. But in olden times only an understanding of substance was called philosophy. Because of this, the scope of philosophy was limited. The entire world was left untouched. The philosophy with which we have no connection, through which our present day problems cannot be solved, that philosophy may be useful for some extra-terrestrial but is not so for us who live on this earth. The philosophy may be useful for other things but definitely not useful to man. Of what use can that philosophy be which does not touch on problems? How can that which is so cut-off from problems be called a philosophy? Indeed, a philosophy of matter cannot be life's philosophy. In a state of confusion it has been accepted as one. This confusion is similar to what happened to this man who told his friend, "Brother, the sun and moon are two. Of the two the moon is more useful because it gives light when there
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