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and generative organs, and lastly the mind, (Manas) standing between two sets and serving both for sense and action, being an internal organ for preception, volition and action. The Tanmâtres produce the five grosser elements (called Maha-bhuta ) namely Akasa, Vayu, Tejas, Apas and Prithvi or Bhumi. The twenty-fifth entity is Purusha, the soul, which is neither producer nor produced, but eternal like Prakriti. It is as Colebrooke says 'multitudinous individual sensitive, eternal, unalterable immaterial” Here we may point out one of the main differences between the Sankhya and Yoga philosophy or between the atheistical and the theistical Sankhya. According to the Sankhya of Kapila there are many Purushas, as many as there are divine, human, animal and vegetable souls, and their plurality is conceived as eternal and not as phenomenal only.' The theistical Sankhya or Yoga-sastra of Patanjali, though believing in the individual Purushas or souls,
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Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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