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says “the creation of the phenomenal world and our position in the phenomenal world are due to nescience (Avidya) with the Vedantist, but to a want of discrimination (Aviveka) with the Sankhya philosopher................in the end both Vedanta and Sankhya look upon what we call reality, as the result of a temporary error, call it nescience, illusion, want of discrimination or anything else.” The object of the Sankhya was to do away with that want of discrimination which caused the union between Prakriti and Purusha in other words to free Purusha from all Prakritic bonds, whether ignorance or knowledge joy or sorrow. Just as there is a state of Nirvana in the Vedanta philosophy, and as we shall see also in both Buddhism and Jainism, Purusha, freed from the fetters of Prakriti “would be what he alone can be, unrestricted, not interfered with, free and independent”, and would reach the state of Nirvana promised by the Sankhya philosophy. We shall end the examination of the San. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat www.umaragyanbhandar.com
