tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Saekhya
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and Prakrti are opposite of each other in nature and there cannot be anything common between the two. The contrast between the two is complete and they are mutually irreducible to each other. The spirit or soul (Purusa) acts as the sole principle of consciousness, and Prakști acts as the source, substratum and ultimate resort of all the things that exist in the world with the exception of consciousness. Everything that exists in nature arises out of the original substance the Prakrti, subsists in Prakrti and, ultimately after destruction returns to Prakịti. H. T. Colebrooke translates ‘Prakặti' by 'Nature'. He translates the original Kārikā or verse of Is'varakļspa in the following way -“Nature, the root (of all), is no production. Seven principles the Great or intellectual one, etc., are productions and productive. Sixteen are productions(unproductive). Soul is neither a production nor productive." The above Kārikā or verse gives a clear understanding of the nature of Prakrti as contrasted with that of the Purusa. Prakrti or Nature thus acts as the material and efficient cause of the world, and it is so all-pervading that it is present anywhere and everywhere in the world. Whatever is in the world is modification of the original primeval-matter or Praksti. The Sankhya system believes in the Satkāryaváda, a form of casual doctrine, which holds that the effect is already present in the cause, though unmanifest. The appearance of the effect does not mean the creation of something that
1 is'varakļşņa : Samkhya Karika or Samkhya Yoga (Kārikā 3, p. 20). Tr. H. T. Colebrooke.
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