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Patanjali and Kapıl
AN EPITOME OF JAINISA. grees of excellences such as .omniscience, greatnesss, smallness etc., proves the existence of a Being possessing the non plus ultra of excellence This Being, Ishvara, was, with the yogines, originally, no other than one among many Purushas, only with this difference that Ishvara had never been implicated in metempsychosis and was supreme in every sense.
Whether this theism of Patanjali's Philosophy is consistent with its Sankhya basis is often disputed. The simplest solution seems to be that Kapila was never directly hostile to theism, but was rather indifferent in his attitude towards the question and that this made it possible for Patanjali to foist bis theistic yoga upon the Sankhya philosophy.
In the Yoga systemui, however, no such
importance has been accorded to God as Soleity is the surrmum bom could very well be expected, and as we find
in such European systems, otherwise analogous with the yoga, .as those of Martineau, Lotze and other Personal Idealists. Devotion to God, in Patanjali's system, is merely one of Kaivalya or Soleity
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