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CONFLUENCE OF OPPOSITES
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reflection, pertains to and is evolved out of prakriti. There is an alternation of involution and evolution, the order of the one being the reverse of that of the other. The following is the order of evolution : Purusha-Purusha-PRAKRITI.
(1) Mahat (intelligence). (2) Ahamkara (egoity).
Modified by tamas,
Modified by sattua (4.8) they
Manas five senses
(9-13) Five kinds of motor fanctions.
Sound Touch Colour Flavour Smell
(14) (15) (16) (47) (18) Ether Air Fire Water Earth
(19) (20) (21) (22) (23) These 23 products of evolution taken with purusha and prakriti constitute the 25 tattvas of the Sankhyan school, the kuowledge of which is necessary to obtain release from transmigration. Of course, in a system like Kapila's there is no room for the notion of creation, though some of the later writers have endeavoured to drag it within the fold of Ishivara-vada (theism). As to every other system of Hindu Thought, yoga is also an accessory to Sankhya.
Nyaya (the logical school) lays down no less than sixteen tattvas as follows -
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