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bound. These Gunas as they are the ingredients of Prakriti, they are also the ingredients of the whole world of sense evolved out of Prakriti, but in every other thing except in Prakriti, they are not in a state of equipoise. Every development or production of Prakriti which we have described would remain without consciousness, unless it attracts the attention of some Purusha, solely for whose benefit all its performances are. It is, therefore only the Purusha becoming conscious “ of Prakriti and all its works, that produces what is the only reality of which we have any conception the phenomenal reality of a self-conscious soul.”
Thus the Sankhya philosophy explains the creation by the temporary union between Purusha and Prakriti, which is compared to a lame man mounted on a blind man's shoulders. This union which is only temporary arises from a want of discrimination ( Aviveka). Thus as Max Muller
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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