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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
principal propounder of this philosophy, as "Siddhanam Kapilo Munihi" meaning "Among the Siddhas the foremost is Muni Kapila.' "Siddha" means a liberated soul. Even Swetashwara Upanishad makes refernce to him., So, the belief of some scholars that when Gita refers to Sankhya, it is not the Sankhya propounded by Kapila does not seem to be correct as there was no other philosopher in India who explained the mechanism of cosmos with reference to the duo of Purush and Prakriti and the working of three Gunas.
Subsequently in the second century B.C. Shri Patanjali, another great philosopher belonging to the theistic school,introduced the concept of God and accepting the theoretical basis of Kapila's system introduced its practical working through his theory of Ashtanga Yoga.
Prof.Zimmer, the well known German theologist notes about Sankhya and Yoga as Under:-"These two ideologies are of different origins. Sankhya and Yoga being related to the
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